Key Highlights

• Atlas 1.0 is the second generation of Lemu's Nature Intelligence Platform, shaped by a first year that reached 500,000 hectares under active monitoring across seven countries, 143,000 biodiversity observations of nearly 7,000 species, and 92 scientific findings used for planning and risk management
• New capabilities include native support for audio, video, and image data — enabling camera traps, bioacoustics, and structured sampling such as eDNA — a responsive interface, the first four State of Nature indicators aligned with the Nature Positive Initiative, and a tenfold improvement in geospatial data loading
• Atlas Open Nature, a new public-facing layer built after customers asked to disclose their conservation data, debuts with Arauco as its first participant

Frutillar and Santiago, Chile — April 22, 2026 — Lemu, the Latin American Nature Tech company behind the world's first biodiversity satellite, today announced the launch of Atlas 1.0, the second generation of its Nature Intelligence Platform. The announcement was made on Earth Day before more than 100 attendees from the private sector, NGOs, academia, and public institutions in Santiago, Chile.

Atlas 1.0 follows a first year in which Atlas grew from zero to 500,000 hectares under active monitoring across seven countries. The new version was shaped by more than 50 customer feedback sessions, 80 prioritised requirements, and 40 user satisfaction surveys collected during the Atlas 0.1 cycle.

From pilot to operational backbone

Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, adopted Atlas as the backbone of its Nature and Biodiversity Strategy 2026 and became the first operational customer of Lemu Nge, Lemu's hyperspectral satellite. Hyperspectral monitoring of the El Teniente Division was performed with three weeks between captures, demonstrating that Lemu Nge can deliver operational time series for mining.

“Until tools like Lemu existed, understanding what we have was far more complex and less efficient. Now we can monitor the 5,000 hectares of the Roblerías, the 23,000 hectares of El Teniente — and eventually the 2.9 million hectares of Codelco land in Chile,” said María José Ruiz-Esquide, Director of Climate Change and Decarbonisation at Codelco.

What Atlas 1.0 keeps — and what it adds

Atlas 0.1 launched on 25 January 2025. In its first year, it was used by 187 users from more than 25 organisations spanning forestry, mining, energy, agriculture, financial services, and professional services. The monitored hectares carry an average LemuRank — Lemu’s conservation priority indicator — of 64%, and account for more than 35 million tonnes of carbon stock. Across the year, Atlas produced 92 scientific findings drawn from 143,000 biodiversity observations of nearly 7,000 species, 51% of them on the IUCN Red List.

Atlas 1.0 retains what customers valued: a single source of truth for nature data regardless of provenance or format, indicators with up to four decades of history, end-to-end scientific traceability, and narrative findings rather than raw tables. It adds a responsive interface that works in the field, native handling of audio, video, and image data — enabling the integration of camera traps and bioacoustic recordings alongside structured sampling methods such as environmental DNA — and a tenfold improvement in load speed. The platform currently offers 23 key indicators spanning eight dimensions — Water, Biodiversity, Carbon, Climate, Fire, Vegetation, Risks, and Monitoring — with more than 30 expected in the near term. The first four State of Nature indicators, including species extinction risk and landscape integrity, align with the Nature Positive Initiative framework.

“We called the first version Atlas 0.1 because we knew the first generation would be a learning experience. A year of real use told us what to keep, what to fix, and what was missing. Atlas 1.0 is what our customers asked us to build,” said Leo Prieto, Founder and CEO at Lemu.

Atlas Open Nature: when customers asked to go public

Atlas was originally built for internal customer use. When customers — starting with Arauco — asked to make their conservation data public, Lemu rearchitected the platform for modular, secure, multi-audience access. The result is Atlas Open Nature: customers choose which projects and data sets to publish, with optional download access. The public interface is functionally close to the customer interface — the difference is who chose to make the data visible.

“How do you connect a camera-trap sighting with bioacoustics, with environmental DNA? That's where Atlas comes in for us. It lets us take our high-value conservation areas, centralize the data, keep it historical — and finally disclose it,” said Guillermo Olmedo, Environmental and Social Value Manager at Arauco.

Arauco, Latin America's largest timber forest operator, has 91,859 hectares of high conservation value live on Atlas across 20 zones and is the first customer to publish data through Open Nature.

Spacetime-ready

Atlas 1.0 is Spacetime-ready. Spacetime is Lemu's proprietary 4D data protocol that organises nature observations across space and time as a single coordinate system. The migration of existing data layers onto Spacetime is underway, and every new indicator from this release forward is Spacetime-native — ensuring coherence, interoperability, and the scientific integrity required to support auditable long-term monitoring.

“That gap between sustainability reporting and operational business decisions is why we built our alliance with Lemu: to bring this platform, and all the wisdom Lemu has accumulated, to our clients. Atlas lets us look at things many of them had never seen before — and use that data intelligently,” said Pamela Méndez, Partner and Sustainability Leader at EY Chile.

EY Chile uses Atlas across three live sector cases — agriculture, energy, and mining — aligned with TNFD, CSRD, and IFRS S1/S2.

Earth Day use cases

Three enterprise customers presented their Atlas use cases at the Santiago event:

• Arauco (Chile, Argentina and Brazil): Arauco monitors 91,859 hectares of high conservation value across four countries, integrating camera traps, eDNA, bioacoustics, and satellite imagery — and becomes the first customer to disclose data through Atlas Open Nature.
• EY Chile: EY Chile deploys Atlas across three sector (agriculture, energy, and mining sites) cases to close the gap between sustainability reporting and operational decisions, aligned with TNFD, CSRD, and IFRS S1/S2.
• Codelco: Codelco adopts Atlas as the backbone of its Nature and Biodiversity Strategy and becomes the first operational customer of Lemu Nge, with hyperspectral monitoring at three-week intervals.

Closing the nature data gap

Atlas 1.0 advances Lemu’s mission to monitor and help finance the conservation of 1% of the Earth's land surface by 2033. Atlas 0.1 proved the model with anchor customers. Atlas 1.0 is the version built to scale it — across geographies, industries, and through Open Nature, to the public.

About Lemu

Lemu is a company making nature visible in every decision. Through its Nature Intelligence Platform, Atlas, and its hyperspectral satellite Lemu Nge, Lemu transforms complex environmental data into clear, actionable insights. By combining AI, satellite data, and ecological science, Lemu brings Nature Intelligence to Business Intelligence — helping companies, governments, and communities understand, protect, and regenerate the living systems we all depend on.

For more information, visit https://le.mu

Press contact: hi@le.mu

En Lemu, nuestra misión es revertir la crisis de pérdida de naturaleza utilizando tecnología de frontera para que la naturaleza sea un activo medible, accionable y auditable.

Para resolver este desafío creamos Atlas: la plataforma que convierte el capital natural en inteligencia lista para decidir. En 2025 lanzamos lo que internamente llamamos “Atlas 0.1” (Beta). Sabíamos que, a pesar de ser una primera versión contundente, iba a evolucionar rápidamente y cambiar una vez que más organizaciones y personas la utilizaran en el mundo real.

Tras escalar de cero a medio millón de hectáreas bajo monitoreo activo, confirmamos esa hipótesis. Hoy, en nuestro segundo año de operación, damos el siguiente paso con “Atlas 1.0”.

TL;DR — Resumen en 5 puntos

• Evolución: Actualizamos “Atlas 0.1” a “Atlas 1.0” gracias al feedback de nuestros usuarios. Nueva Interfaz (Responsiva), Nuevos Indicadores, Proyectos Públicos, y mucho más.
• Inteligencia Colectiva: 50+ sesiones de feedback, 80+ requerimientos priorizados y 40+ encuestas con nuestros usuarios.
• Migración: entre el 14 y el 16 de abril de 2026. Sin downtime, mismo link, mismas credenciales, mismas zonas, datos y hallazgos.
• Naturaleza Abierta: Arauco será el primer cliente en hacer públicos sus proyectos con Atlas, estrenando indicadores SON (State of Nature).
• Tecnología: Introducimos el protocolo Spacetime (4D) y preparamos el terreno para Gaia AI: Rigurosidad científica con facilidad de uso.

¿Qué es Lemu Atlas?

Es nuestra infraestructura central de Nature Intelligence. Permite a las organizaciones:

• Monitorear activamente los ecosistemas en el tiempo con métodos trazables de punta a punta.
• Gestionar riesgos y gobernanza a través de indicadores científicos que no necesitan ser diluidos para ser usables.
• Demostrar impacto financiero y ambiental auditable, reforzando que la naturaleza no compite con el negocio, sino que lo fortalece.

2025: Un año de magnitudes concretas

El 2025 marcó el punto en que Atlas pasó de ser una visión a ser una herramienta operativa. No solo acumulamos datos; generamos evidencia para reemplazar supuestos en la toma de decisiones.

El año en cifras

• Escala del monitoreo: Pasamos de cero a 499.642 hectáreas bajo seguimiento activo.
• Comunidad: 187 usuarios en 25 organizaciones a lo largo de 7 países ya utilizan nuestra inteligencia.
• Inteligencia accionable: Generamos 92 hallazgos, conclusiones científicas defendibles para planificación y gestión de riesgos.
• Dimensiones de la naturaleza: Crecimos a 19 Indicadores Clave que cubren agua, biodiversidad, carbono, clima, vegetación y riesgos.

¿Quieres profundizar en nuestro impacto? Revisa el detalle completo de nuestra operación, desde los gigapíxeles procesados por Lemu Nge hasta la biodiversidad observada.

Lemu in 2025: Our Year in Numbers

El año en escucha

Atlas 1.0 no nació en una sala de reuniones: nació del uso real. Durante 2025 llevamos adelante más de 50 sesiones de feedback con nuestros usuarios en decenas de organizaciones, procesamos más de 80 requerimientos priorizados y recibimos más de 40 encuestas de NPS y PMF. Ese proceso nos permitió entender con precisión qué necesitaban las organizaciones para decidir mejor, y tradujo cada señal en una mejora concreta: navegación más clara, indicadores más accesibles, una arquitectura interna más veloz y estable, y las bases tecnológicas para Spacetime y Gaia AI.

Próxima parada: Migración a Atlas 1.0

Para escalar este impacto, necesitamos una estructura más robusta. Por eso, nos emociona anunciar el lanzamiento de Atlas 1.0.

Esta nueva versión trae nuevos indicadores, nuevas funcionalidades y una mayor flexibilidad, todo gracias al feedback que ustedes mismos nos han dado para mejorar la plataforma. Ustedes nos ayudaron a entender qué necesitaban para decidir mejor, y Atlas 1.0 es la respuesta a esa escucha activa.

¿Qué cambia y qué se mantiene igual?

Sabemos que la estabilidad es clave. Por eso, hemos diseñado un proceso donde la experiencia mejora sin interrumpir tu flujo de trabajo:

Nuevas capacidades desde el primer día

Atlas 1.0 no solo se ve distinto; es la base para nuevas formas de medir la naturaleza. Desde el primer día, todos los usuarios verán mejoras y algunos verán capacidades adicionales según su organización:

• Para todas las organizaciones: Atlas 1.0 llega con una experiencia completamente renovada para todos los usuarios:
  • Nueva interfaz rediseñada con navegación más clara e intuitiva.
  • Nueva jerarquía Org > Proyecto > Zona para gestionar múltiples territorios con mayor claridad.
  • Diseño 100% responsivo para operar desde cualquier dispositivo, en cualquier lugar.
  • Mayor velocidad de carga en mapas, indicadores y hallazgos gracias a motores internos optimizados.
  • Hallazgos con sección propia y nuevo formato visual enriquecido.
  • Indicator Cards: documentos técnicos descargables en PDF con la lógica, fuentes de datos y criterios de cada indicador — listos para adjuntar a reportes corporativos, auditorías o marcos como TNFD o GRI.
  • Proyectos Públicos: ahora podés hacer pública tu organización en Atlas, compartiendo tus métricas de conservación con el mundo. Si te interesa dar este paso, contactá a tu KAM para activarlo.
• Para "Demo Lemu": Estarán disponibles los indicadores SON (State of Nature), además de la integración de cámaras trampa para visualización de fauna.
• Para "Arauco": Además de lo anterior, se habilitan los módulos de Bioacústica y ADN Ambiental (eDNA), llevando el monitoreo de biodiversidad a un nivel de precisión sin precedentes.

Naturaleza abierta y en movimiento

Atlas 1.0 desbloquea una nueva dimensión: la transparencia radical.

El salto a la esfera pública

Ahora nuestros clientes tendrán la posibilidad de hacer públicos sus proyectos. Arauco ya ha tomado esta decisión y será el primero en atreverse a compartir sus métricas de conservación con el mundo, estableciendo un nuevo estándar de integridad corporativa.

Esto convierte a Atlas en un hub de líderes de la economía naturaleza-positiva, donde el impacto no solo se mide internamente, sino que se comparte para inspirar acción. La pregunta ahora es: ¿Quién más se suma a liderar con evidencia?

Atlas en tu bolsillo: Experiencia 100% Responsiva

Sabemos que las decisiones sobre la naturaleza no siempre se toman detrás de un escritorio. Por eso, el nuevo Atlas es totalmente responsivo.

• Para el usuario privado: Revisa indicadores en terreno o muestra hallazgos durante una reunión directamente desde tu smartphone.
• Para el público general: Cualquier persona podrá explorar los proyectos públicos (como los de Arauco) con una experiencia móvil fluida y rápida.

Hoja de Ruta: Mirando hacia el futuro

Este rediseño no es solo cosmético; es un cambio de arquitectura. Hemos implementado nuevas lógicas internas que servirán de cimiento para lo que viene.

Spacetime: La capa fundacional

Bajo la superficie, Atlas 1.0 corre sobre Spacetime, nuestro nuevo protocolo de datos 4D {x, y, z, t}. La naturaleza no se detiene, y Spacetime nos permite organizar observaciones, modelos e indicadores para que sean coherentes y comparables en el tiempo y el espacio, garantizando integridad científica y velocidad operativa.

Spacetime

A foundational layer for Nature Intelligence

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Gracias a esta base, esperamos desplegar nuevas funcionalidades hacia el último trimestre de 2026 o inicios de 2027:

• Gaia AI: Nuestra inteligencia artificial para consultas en lenguaje natural (no te rías) sobre tus datos de naturaleza. Rigurosidad científica con facilidad de uso.
• Comparativa de Zonas y Análisis de Proyecto: Herramientas avanzadas para analizar el desempeño entre distintos territorios de forma simultánea — y en el tiempo.

FAQ: Todo lo que necesitas saber

¿Cambiará mi link de acceso?
No. Seguirás entrando por la misma ruta de siempre.

¿Debo cambiar mi contraseña?
No, tus credenciales actuales y permisos de usuario se mantienen intactos.

¿Se perderán mis datos o reportes anteriores?
Absolutamente no. La migración es de arquitectura y visualización; toda tu información histórica está segura y migrada a la nueva lógica.

¿La plataforma dejará de funcionar entre los días 14 y 16 de abril?
No prevemos downtime. La migración será transparente y podrás seguir operando con normalidad.

¿Dónde pido ayuda o envío feedback?
Nuestro equipo de soporte está listo para acompañarte en support@le.mu.

Además, vamos a estar muy atentos a escuchar tus comentarios una vez que puedas poner tus manos en el nuevo Atlas 1.0. Tu experiencia es lo que nos ayuda a mejorar día a día.

Technology to save ecosystems: how Chile's Lemu satellite works

The Chilean satellite Lemu Nge, launched in 2024 on a SpaceX Falcon 9, is the world's first biodiversity satellite. Equipped with a hyperspectral camera, it allows ecosystems to be observed with a level of detail impossible for the human eye — and turns that data into actionable intelligence through Atlas, a platform that integrates water, carbon, vegetation, biodiversity, and human development.

This technology aims to transform conservation and demonstrate that caring for nature is also a smart economic decision. From Chile, Lemu monitors ecosystems globally to drive protected areas and a new model of development.

A report by Carlos Alberto López.

¿Por qué es chileno el primer satélite de biodiversidad?

Cuando descubrió que faltaban datos de la naturaleza, Leo Prieto se dispuso a lanzar el primer satélite del mundo destinado a medir la biodiversidad. Y lo logró, con trabajo en equipo, perseverancia y convicción.

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The most lush forest and the most arid desert on the planet. Ecosystems teeming with life — but how much do we actually know about this extraordinary biodiversity? Can technology help us gather reliable data about these landscapes?

Despite having more than 10,000 satellites in orbit, virtually none of them have the tools to characterize nature.

So after a lot of research, I remember one day having breakfast with my wife and saying: “honey, it seems like there's a satellite missing, and it seems like nobody is launching it — so it seems like it's going to have to be us.”

Self-taught, Leo Prieto began investigating how to build a satellite. What kind of camera should it have? Questions that, after much inquiry, he managed to answer.

We ended up reaching the most exotic laboratories — in Lithuania, in Beijing, in the most unexpected places — and finally assembling this global network of collaborators around one mission: to build the world's first biodiversity satellite.

In August 2024, the Lemu Nge nanosatellite was launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9. A device no bigger than a shoebox that orbits the Earth daily from pole to pole, north to south.

The great strength of our spacecraft is its camera. It’s a hyperspectral camera — which means, in simple terms, that it can see more colors, more light, than humans can. And that means we can see and distinguish things that traditional cameras, and our own eyes, cannot.

But it's not just about capturing images. The key is in how that data is processed and turned into information.

Out of everything we do, Lemu Nge — which means “Forest Eye” in Mapudungún — is what draws the most attention. But it's not the core of our solution. The core is Atlas.

Atlas is a nature intelligence platform. Imagine Google Maps, but instead of streets and shops and things that matter to humans, there are species and ecosystems — everything relevant about nature.

What our clients do is use Atlas to access multiple dimensions of nature: water, biodiversity, carbon, vegetation, air quality, human development.

In agriculture and forestry, they use our data to protect natural ecosystems and native biodiversity — because they realized that, even though the business is in their crops and plantations, taking care of the surrounding natural ecosystems reduces the risk of fire, drought, and pests. Working in balance with nature is a business decision.

What we want to achieve is to amplify the financial resources flowing toward effective conservation — and to do this by changing the way we see the relationship between ecology and economy: that they are one and the same, and that the economy needs nature to keep delivering the growth and quality of life we all expect.

Many people ask us: why aren’t you in Silicon Valley, why not New York, London, Tokyo, to launch satellites? And I say: we are exactly where we need to be.

We are in Frutillar, surrounded by pristine ecosystems that teach us a great deal — but we’re also in a country organized from north to south. Lemu Nge has a polar orbit — pole to pole — and so we have this perfect natural laboratory along our 4,000 kilometers, allowing us to study every type of ecosystem: from the arid zones to the wetlands of the Chilean altiplano, along with many other ecosystems that Lemu has set out to protect with cutting-edge technology.

Santiago, Chile — 12 February 2026 — Lemu, Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company making nature visible in every decision, today announced a new collaboration with EY, one of the world’s “Big Four” professional services organisations, through its EY Chile team. Over the coming months, EY Chile teams and selected clients will be able to explore Atlas, Lemu’s Nature Intelligence platform, to turn complex environmental data into defendable insights — from water through biodiversity to carbon — and take them straight into planning, governance, risk management, and reporting.

This collaboration will provide a time-bound programme in which EY Chile clients can work with Atlas to evaluate environmental variables — including indicators related to species observations, surface temperature change, and carbon reserve trends — using Key Nature Indicators built on multiple data sources and satellite technology, including data enabled by Lemu Nge, Lemu’s biodiversity-focused hyperspectral nanosatellite.

3 Key Takeaways

1. Atlas in the hands of decision-makers: EY Chile teams and clients will trial Atlas to convert environmental complexity into clear, defensible insights that teams can use immediately.
2. Biodiversity and carbon, together: The program supports analysis across Key Nature Indicators, reflecting the reality that business value chains depend on living systems.
3. Scientific rigor + satellite-grade scale: Atlas combines traceable methods, multimodal data, and satellite technology — including Lemu Nge — to help organisations measure nature with scientific accuracy, without the usual operational burden.

What this alliance enables

Across the program, participating teams will be able to:

• Rapidly explore territories and portfolios through Atlas’s preloaded indicators and insights.
• Translate environmental signals into outputs suitable for decision-making — with methods and provenance that are easy to explain and defend.
• Assess variables such as biodiversity-related observations, temperature dynamics, and carbon reserve tendencies, among others, through a standardized indicator set.

“Businesses don’t have a nature problem — they have a nature visibility problem,” said Leo Prieto, Founder & CEO of Lemu. “Working with EY Chile helps put Nature Intelligence where it belongs: inside the decisions that shape risk, cost of capital, and long-term resilience. Today, it costs less to measure nature than to ignore it.”

About Lemu

Lemu is Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company, making nature visible in every decision. By combining AI, Earth observation, and ecological science, Lemu brings Nature Intelligence to Business Intelligence — helping companies, governments, and communities understand their impact and dependence on nature, and protect the living systems we all depend on.

About EY

EY (formerly Ernst & Young) is a leading global professional services network and one of the "Big Four" accounting firms, providing assurance, consulting, tax, and strategy services. Headquartered in London, EY employs over 393,000 people across more than 150 countries. The firm focuses on building a “better working world” through AI-driven, data-enabled solutions. 

Frutillar, Chile — 11 February 2026 — Lemu today announced a new set of operational milestones for Lemu Nge, the world’s first biodiversity-focused hyperspectral nanosatellite. Between 29 November 2025 and 7 January 2026, Lemu Nge completed four successful customer taskings for Codelco, demonstrating both rapid turnaround and consistent monitoring over time.

Key Takeaways (TL;DR)

• First industrial tasking, end-to-end: On 29 Nov 2025 (Lemu Nge Session 1429, 10:54 AM local), Lemu Nge captured a flawless hyperspectral image of El Teniente and delivered it in under 4 days, proving customer tasking and delivery readiness.
• First three-month consecutive monitoring for a customer: El Teniente was captured three times across three consecutive months (29 Nov 2025, 18 Dec 2025, 6 Jan 2026), enabling a repeatable time series that makes change visible and comparable.
• Repeatability across sites, with real-world relevance: On 7 Jan 2026 (Session 1450, 10:55 AM local), Lemu Nge captured Gabriela Mistral, completing four successful tasking images and demonstrating how rapidly changing infrastructure and nature signals can be tracked — especially where coverage is lagging.

On 29 November 2025 at 10:54 AM local time (Session 1429), Lemu Nge captured a flawless hyperspectral image of Codelco’s El Teniente Division in Chile’s O’Higgins region. The image situates El Teniente within its broader living landscape — Andean slopes and ravines, and snowmelt waters flowing towards the Cachapoal river basin. In hyperspectral false colour, ochres help distinguish rock and exposed soils, while greens highlight vegetation and moisture — turning complex terrain into interpretable signals for long-term land and ecosystem management. The data product was delivered in less than four days from capture to delivery, marking Lemu’s first end-to-end industrial tasking.

Lemu Nge then returned to the same Area of Interest to reach a second milestone: first customer monitoring across three consecutive months. Follow-on captures were completed on 18 December 2025 at 10:52 AM local (Session 1435) and 6 January 2026 (Session 1447), creating a three-image time series for one location. The second capture includes the headwaters of Estero Codegua (north of Caletones), the Río Peuco, and Cerro La Punta towards Pirque and the Metropolitan Region. In false colour, vegetation signals are emphasised — including characteristic sclerophyll species such as quillay and boldo — making the boundary between greener foothills and more exposed Andean terrain clearer to interpret.

By the third capture (Session 1447), 38 days after the first observation, the value of monitoring over time becomes tangible: even across a short interval, the hyperspectral signal can show shifts in vegetation and runoff patterns in ravines, alongside areas of more exposed soil and rock. Around high-mountain landmarks such as Sewell, the imagery highlights the complexity of the surrounding mosaic — steep slopes, seasonal water courses, alluvial fans, and transitions across vegetation zones — reinforcing why time-series observation is essential for anticipating uncertainty, rather than reacting after the fact.

Finally, on 7 January 2026 at 10:55 AM local (Session 1450), Lemu Nge captured Codelco’s Gabriela Mistral Division in Antofagasta, successfully concluding four tasking images delivered for an industrial customer. The scene shows how fast the real world changes: new infrastructure is visible in the Atacama Desert, including a solar plant that was not yet reflected in mainstream consumer maps at the time of capture. Beyond the immediate milestone, the image reinforces a broader reality: the Southern Hemisphere remains underserved by frequent, high-resolution updating — precisely the gap Lemu Nge is designed to close.

“This is what operational looks like: tasking, capture, quality, delivery — smooth and steady — and then doing it again, consistently,” said Leo Prieto, CEO of Lemu. “Lemu Nge began as an R&D mission, but it keeps surpassing our expectations: it’s now delivering commercial-grade monitoring with the resolution that matters — spectral depth, spatial detail, and genuinely fresh information. When new infrastructure appears in our captures before it shows up on public maps, that’s a decision advantage.”

Milestones achieved

• Session 1429 — First industrial customer tasking completed: 29 November 2025, 10:54 AM local, El Teniente Division (O’Higgins, Chile). Flawless hyperspectral capture; landscape context includes snowmelt waters towards the Cachapoal basin; <4 days capture-to-delivery.
• Session 1435 — Second capture in the monitoring sequence: 18 December 2025, 10:52 AM local, El Teniente Division (O’Higgins, Chile). Includes Estero Codegua headwaters, Río Peuco, and Cerro La Punta, with vegetation signals (including quillay and boldo) made legible in false colour.
• Session 1447 — Third capture completing three consecutive months: 6 January 2026, 10:53 AM local, El Teniente Division (O’Higgins, Chile). 38 days after the first observation, change signals appear over time — including vegetation/runoff shifts in ravines and areas of more exposed soil/rock — reinforcing the value of time-series monitoring.
• Session 1450 — Fourth successful customer tasking delivered: 7 January 2026, 10:55 AM local. Gabriela Mistral Division (Antofagasta, Chile) — new Atacama infrastructure visible, including a solar plant not yet present in mainstream maps at the time of capture.

About Lemu Nge

Lemu Nge (“Forest Eye” in Mapudungun) is a 6U hyperspectral nanosatellite designed for biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring. It captures 32 hyperspectral bands (420–900 nm) with a ground sampling distance of under 5 metres, supporting repeatable observation of ecosystem dynamics over time.

About Lemu

Lemu is Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company, making nature visible in every decision. We build Atlas, a Nature Intelligence platform that transforms complex environmental data into clear, actionable insight. By combining AI, Earth observation, and ecological science, we bring Nature Intelligence to Business Intelligence — helping organisations understand their impact and dependence on nature, and protect the living systems we all depend on.

Requínoa, Chile — 10 February 2026 — Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer and one of the most demanding operators globally, has validated Lemu’s products and services through the successful completion of a pioneering biodiversity management pilot. Delivered with Atlas and hyperspectral satellite imagery captured by Lemu Nge under customer tasking, the pilot combined AI-driven analysis with applied ecological science to produce decision-ready, traceable insight for environmental management around Codelco’s El Teniente and Ventanas Divisions — strengthening not only operational decision-making, but also the evidence base Codelco needs for world-class disclosure frameworks such as ICMM and TNFD.

This achievement is not only the end of a project milestone, it is Codelco’s validation that Lemu’s Nature Intelligence works in real operational conditions, meeting world-class standards for rigour, reliability, and usability. Building on this validation, Lemu and Codelco will now move towards implementation of Atlas across Codelco’s eight divisions, covering more than 2 million hectares.

Key Takeaways (TL;DR)

• World-class validation: Codelco’s successful completion of the pilot validates Lemu’s products and services under demanding, real-world operational conditions — setting the foundation to scale Atlas across eight divisions covering 2M+ hectares.
• Operational & reporting value: Atlas delivered decision-ready, traceable Nature Intelligence that supports both day-to-day environmental management and consistent disclosure needs, including ICMM and TNFD reporting.
• Proven space-to-decision pipeline: The pilot operationally validated Lemu Nge under customer tasking — three months of monitoring and three perfect images over El Teniente — demonstrating repeatable, high-quality biodiversity satellite imagery at scale.

Validation in the field

Developed over six months under a 2025 collaboration agreement, the pilot included an operational validation of Lemu Nge under industrial customer tasking: for the first time, the satellite was tasked for an industrial customer, delivering three consecutive months of monitoring and three perfect images over El Teniente — validating data quality, repeatable acquisition, and end-to-end readiness for biodiversity monitoring at scale.

“We need technology like the technology we are starting today with Lemu, because to care for nature we need information, monitoring, very rigourous analytical intelligence — and that is what an initiative like the one we are driving today enables,” said Máximo Pacheco, Chairman of Codelco’s Board, underscoring the role of Atlas. “This is not pick-and-shovel mining — this is satellite mining. Sustainability is no longer an abstract concept, but an information system that allows us to measure, monitor, and manage with rigour. What we see today in this ‘shoebox’ — referring to the satellite’s small size — is a platform that transforms complex biodiversity data into concrete inputs for our operational management.”

“Codelco is a world-class company with best-in-class standards,” said Leo Prieto, CEO and Founder of Lemu. “This pilot was six months of deep work validating technology we’ve built over more than six years. The outcome is clear: rigourous nature science can be operationalised — reliably — so teams can make better decisions.”

Two strategic sites, one shared goal: decisions backed by evidence

The work focused on two priority areas:

• Roblería del Cobre de Loncha National Reserve (area of influence of El Teniente Division): 5.87 kHa (5,870 ha)
• Campiche Wetland (surrounding Ventanas Division): 0.51 kHa (515 ha)

Using Atlas, Lemu’s Nature Intelligence platform, the pilot consolidated a verifiable foundation to observe ecological patterns over time, prioritise areas, and support environmental planning with indicators designed to be usable without diluting scientific rigour—an approach aligned with Codelco’s Nature Positive direction.

Highlights from the pilot

At Roblería del Cobre de Loncha, Lemu’s LemuRank indicator (0–100) — a spatial conservation priority index — showed values between 53 and 89, with an average of 71, reinforcing the area’s ecological relevance and the value of spatial intelligence to guide monitoring and protection efforts.

Additionally, the pilot enabled teams to:

• Identify more than 1,465 observations from 82 species in the assessed area
• Observe long-term improvements in vegetation density
• Confirm an increase in carbon stock between 2001 and 2023, supporting the territory’s role as a carbon sink and contributor to climate change mitigation

These results were delivered through a workflow designed for operational use: traceable methods, repeatable observation, and outputs that can inform planning and management—key requirements in a demanding industrial environment.

From pilot validation to enterprise-scale deployment

The pilot’s successful completion provides the foundation to move from validation to scale: implementing Atlas beyond individual sites towards a consistent Nature Intelligence layer across Codelco’s footprint.

By expanding to all eight divisions (totaling more than 2 million hectares), Codelco would be positioned to standardise how it monitors ecosystems over time, prioritises action, and strengthens environmental decision-making with evidence that can be defended, audited, and improved. At enterprise scale, Atlas helps standardise indicators and traceability across divisions—supporting both day-to-day management and consistent ICMM and TNFD reporting.

For Lemu, this next step reflects the core promise of Nature Intelligence: not more data, but clearer decisions — delivered with scientific rigour, operational reliability, and agility.

Project close-out with government authorities

The project’s closing milestone took place at Hacienda Cauquenes (O’Higgins, Chile), bringing together public authorities, academic partners, and technical teams from Codelco and Lemu. The programme included a technical presentation of the pilot, a demonstration of the satellite system using an on-site prototype, and a curated display of satellite imagery illustrating the biogeography surrounding El Teniente.

“We need responsible mining — mining that coexists well with the environment and relates in a friendly way with its communities,” Pacheco said, and added that “this new form of mining is what Codelco is driving, and where we want to be recognised as leaders.” He concluded: “This alliance with Lemu also reflects something we deeply value: Chile’s ability to deliver world-class innovation. Here, science, entrepreneurship, and national talent are being put at the service of a global challenge — producing the minerals the world needs while caring for the environment to ever-higher standards.”

Maximiliano Proaño, Chile’s Acting Minister of the Environment, said that when a strategic public company advances towards a Nature Positive vision, it not only strengthens its own environmental management, but also contributes directly to national environmental goals and more sustainable development. He added that this pilot comes at a particularly relevant moment, as Chile’s new Biodiversity and Protected Areas Service (SBAP) has recently begun operations, strengthening ecosystem management and monitoring nationwide. “Initiatives like Atlas by Lemu align with that vision,” Proaño said, “by improving decision-making based on verifiable, robust information.”

Codelco has publicly framed the initiative as part of its broader Nature and Biodiversity Strategy, aimed at halting ecosystem loss and moving towards net biodiversity gains under a Nature Positive vision.

About Lemu

Lemu is Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company, making nature visible in every decision. We built Atlas, a Nature Intelligence Platform that transforms complex environmental data into clear, actionable insight by combining AI, Earth observation, and ecological science. In 2024, we launched Lemu Nge, the world’s first biodiversity-focused hyperspectral satellite, designed specifically for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics.

About Codelco

Codelco (Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile) is the world’s largest copper producer and Chile’s largest company. With operations across eight divisions, Codelco is advancing initiatives to deliver the minerals the world needs while continuously strengthening environmental stewardship and its Nature and Biodiversity Strategy.

We launched Atlas in January 2025 with 0 hectares under monitoring. By December, Atlas was actively tracking 499,642 hectares — not as a static snapshot, but as change through time, with methods and provenance you can trace end-to-end.

That progress happened in the real world, with real teams. 187 users across 25 organisations in 7 countries used Atlas to replace assumptions with evidence — and to make nature legible inside decisions that normally move faster than ecosystems can recover. The goal wasn’t “more data”. It was clearer decisions. Over the year, Atlas produced 92 insights: defensible conclusions that teams could carry into planning, governance, risk management, and reporting — without having to dilute the science to make it usable.

Some of the organizations active on Atlas at the end of December 2025:

Atlas also reflected the reality of ecosystems: complexity is not noise; it’s the signal. We grew from 13 to 19 Key Nature Indicators, spanning 6 dimensions (water, biodiversity, carbon, climate, vegetation, and risks), because nature doesn’t live in silos. Ecosystems are interconnected systems: trade-offs are common and second-order effects are the rule. The path to understanding isn’t simplification; it’s embracing the multidimensional and making it operational — fusing sources, maintaining scientific traceability, and turning complexity into usable intelligence. That’s what frontier tech is for.

That translated into concrete magnitudes. Across the monitored areas, Atlas consolidated 35.9 megatonnes of total biomass carbon, 143,701 biodiversity observations, 6,958 observed species, and 3,541 IUCN Red List species — with an average LemuRank of 64% (the higher the percentage, the higher the conservation priority). More than statistics, these are context for deciding what to protect, where to act first, and why.

In parallel, Lemu Nge kept delivering the kind of consistent observation that makes Nature Intelligence scalable. Across 5,446 full orbits, we executed 411 sessions that produced 276 captures, generating 8,000+ images — one for each of the 32 hyperspectral bands — and 179.22 GB downlinked from space, representing 291 gigapixels. It’s operational proof: hyperspectral data with the quality needed to infer biodiversity can be collected reliably from orbit, then processed into something actionable on the ground.

If 2024 was the year Lemu Nge reached orbit, 2025 was the year Atlas became operational. Now 2026 is set up to be the year impact compounds — scaling to more customers in more countries, earning trust through successful deployments, and showing, repeatedly, that nature doesn’t compete with business: it strengthens it, with measurable financial returns.

Frutillar, Chile — 10 December 2025 — Lemu, Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company making nature visible in every decision, today announced the signing of a collaboration agreement with the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, “IEB”), Chile’s leading research institution dedicated to advancing scientific and technological knowledge in ecology, biodiversity, and the environment. 

The agreement establishes a framework for long-term collaboration focused on the definition and study of specific ecosystems, combining IEB’s scientific leadership with Lemu’s Nature Intelligence platform, Atlas. Together, the organisations will explore pathways to strengthen research, education, conservation, and the practical use of biodiversity data—so that more decisions are grounded in ecological reality. 

What the collaboration enables

Under the agreement, Lemu and IEB will work together across a set of non-exclusive collaboration areas, including: 

• Joint formulation and participation in research and development (R&D) projects
• Scientific writing and dissemination (journals, conferences, seminars, and colloquia)
• Reciprocal exchange of scientific, educational, and research materials
• Joint workshops, courses, and convenings
• Expert interpretation and/or validation by IEB researchers of jointly developed outputs
• Potential integration of IEB databases into Lemu’s current and future platforms, including Atlas
• Joint applications to competitive public and private funding opportunities

The agreement also anticipates the option to establish specific project agreements (“convenios específicos”) that define objectives, scope, timelines, and any applicable conditions for concrete initiatives. 

Quotes

“Chile has world-class ecosystems and world-class scientists,” said Dr. Francisco A. Squeo, President of the IEB. “By collaborating with Lemu, we can help ensure that biodiversity knowledge is not only produced, but also applied—supporting better outcomes for ecosystems and people.” 

“Nature Intelligence only works if it is scientifically grounded and operationally usable,” said Leo Prieto, Founder and CEO at Lemu. “This agreement with IEB is about building that bridge—bringing research-grade ecology closer to the decisions that shape landscapes, investments, and conservation outcomes.” 

About Lemu

Lemu is Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company, making nature visible in every decision. Through Atlas, its Nature Intelligence platform, Lemu transforms complex environmental data into clear, actionable insight—helping organisations understand their impacts and dependencies on nature, and protect the living systems we all depend on.

About IEB

The Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) is a private-law, non-profit research corporation dedicated to scientific and technological research in biology, ecology, the environment, and biodiversity, and to enabling the application of research outcomes. IEB administers the ANID FB210006 Centre, which develops research lines on biodiversity status and trends, ecosystem integrity, nature’s contributions to people, factors that affect biodiversity, and the links between conservation and human wellbeing. 

Instituto de Ecología & Biodiversidad

IEB Chile

Instituto de Ecología & Biodiversidad

Frutillar, Chile — October 2nd, 2025 — Lemu, Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company making nature visible in every decision, and Chile Nature Fund (Fondo Naturaleza Chile, “FNCh”), Chile’s national conservation trust fund mobilising long-term finance for nature, have signed a collaboration agreement to accelerate the use of high-integrity nature data in conservation planning, monitoring, and financing across Chile.

The agreement was signed on-stage at RedLAC 2025 in Frutillar, during the annual congress of RedLAC, the network that connects environmental and conservation trust funds across Latin America and the Caribbean. FNCh hosted this year’s gathering, convening peer funds, strategic partners, cooperation agencies, and finance actors working to scale conservation outcomes across the region.

Through this collaboration, FNCh will be able to leverage Lemu Atlas and available satellite-derived products to support its mission, while contributing technical and monitoring information that helps validate methodologies and improve real-world performance—so that decisions can be made with greater confidence, comparability, and speed.

Built for trust at scale, the partnership establishes practical rules for data safety, provenance, and traceability—so that when information moves between institutions, it remains attributable, reproducible, and fit for investment and management decisions. This is about responsible stewardship of evidence: making sure conservation finance is guided by insight that can be understood, audited, and continuously improved. 

“FNCh exists to channel ambitious, long-term financing for conservation in Chile—bringing together public, private, and international resources behind measurable outcomes,” said Eugenio Rengifo, Executive Director of Chile Nature Fund (FNCh). “Signing this agreement at RedLAC makes the purpose very tangible: we need monitoring that is credible, comparable, and scalable, so capital can flow to what works. This collaboration with Lemu helps turn nature data into traceable intelligence that strengthens how conservation is planned, tracked, and funded.” 

“Nature Intelligence becomes powerful when it is trusted—grounded in data, transparent in method, and useful in the real world,” said Leo Prieto, Founder and CEO of Lemu. “Working with FNCh connects advanced Earth observation with one of the most important conservation finance mechanisms in the country. Together we can help ensure that the right decisions—public and private—are informed by the living systems they depend on.”

About Lemu

Lemu is Latin America’s leading Nature Tech company, making nature visible in every decision. We launched Lemu Nge, the world’s first biodiversity-focused hyperspectral satellite, and Atlas, our Nature Intelligence platform that transforms complex environmental data into clear, actionable insight. By combining AI, Earth observation, and ecological science, we bring Nature Intelligence to Business Intelligence—helping companies, governments, and communities understand their impact and dependence on nature, and protect the living systems we all depend on.

About Chile Nature Fund (Fondo Naturaleza Chile, FNCh)

Fondo Naturaleza Chile (FNCh) is Chile’s national conservation trust fund, created through a public–private effort to mobilise and manage long-term financing for large-scale nature conservation. FNCh works with government, the private sector, communities, and international partners to strengthen measurable conservation outcomes and the effective stewardship of Chile’s natural heritage. 

Biodiversidad | Fondo Naturaleza Chile

El Fondo Naturaleza Chile es una fundación que movilizará financiamiento para la conservación del patrimonio natural en el territorio chileno.

FNCh

About RedLAC

RedLAC is the Network of Environmental Funds of Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting collaboration among environmental and conservation trust funds through capacity building and knowledge-sharing to advance biodiversity conservation and sustainable development across the region. 

RedLac Congress 2025 Chile

The most important annual gathering of environmental funds in Latin America and the Caribbean. Santiago and Frutillar, September 29 - October 3, 2025.

Congreso RedLac 2025 ChileFondo Naturaleza Chile, RedLac

SANTIAGO, CHILE (September 26, 2025) — Lemu showcased the first advances of its partnership with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chile — a pioneering effort to strengthen ecosystem services monitoring through scientific data, satellite observation, and artificial intelligence — at the 1st FSC Latin America Ecosystem Services Summit “Conservar para Impactar”, held on Thursday, September 25 at the Novotel Vitacura Hotel, Santiago, Chile

Key Highlights

• First advances of the Lemu–FSC Chile collaboration on ecosystem services (ES) monitoring.
• Showcased at the 1st FSC Latin America Summit on Ecosystem Services, gathering regional leaders across multiple sectors.
• Integration of science, satellites, and AI into forest certification processes.

The partnership focuses on developing methodologies and indicators to strengthen the evaluation of ecosystem services in FSC-certified forest areas. By combining science, space-based data, and Nature Intelligence, Lemu and FSC Chile aim to support impact verification and sustainable forest management, with a particular focus on the needs of the Global South.

“The new FSC Verified Impact System challenges us in several ways and confirms that building alliances is essential to generate objective data that demonstrate the positive impact of responsible forest management practices on ecosystem services (ES), producing verified impacts,” added Regina Massai, Executive Director of FSC Chile. “In this new partnership with Lemu, we will work to address one of those challenges: monitoring and measuring impacts on ES. We expect the results of this collaboration to become the foundation for scaling positive impact across diverse territories. What cannot be measured cannot be managed — and it is a requirement within FSC standards.”

Through this collaboration, Lemu and FSC reinforce their shared commitment to advancing solutions that balance environmental sustainability, economic development, and social well-being, moving toward a future where biodiversity conservation is a strategic priority across Latin America.

“The world depends on nature, yet we measure very little of what it provides,” said Sebastián Eyzaguirre, Co-Founder and COO of Lemu. “Our collaboration with FSC Chile shows how science and technology can make ecosystem services more visible, providing reliable data that helps companies, governments, and communities make better decisions. With FSC as a global reference, we are advancing in balancing human needs with those of the rest of nature.”

The “Conservar para Impactar” Summit brought together representatives from across Latin America to highlight the importance of conserving and sustainably managing natural capital. Lemu’s participation consolidated its role as a regional reference in biophysical monitoring of ecosystem services using satellite technology, scientific data, and AI — and demonstrated the potential of Atlas, its Nature Intelligence platform, to deliver clear, actionable insights to companies, governments, and communities.

The 1st FSC Latin America Ecosystem Services Summit featured public and private sector experiences from across the region and was streamed live with simultaneous translation into Portuguese and English.