EXPLOMAT

Jun 1, 2025 · 1 min read
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EXPLOMAT (Sustainable Exploration Technologies for Efficient Raw Materials Discovery) is an innovation project awarded by EIT RawMaterials under Horizon Europe, in its call for regional innovation. It runs for two years, from June 2025 to May 2027. TerraEye is the lead partner: it develops the technology, manages the project and prepares the product for the market.

The aim is a set of AI tools, built on Earth Observation data, that make mineral exploration faster, cheaper and less invasive than manual field surveys and interpretation that depends on the expert. TerraEye works on three components: automatic detection of mineral outcrops in multispectral satellite images, a model that finds stress in vegetation caused by metal-rich soils, which allows exploring forested areas without clearing them, and semi-automated analysis of geological structures from satellite and terrain data.

In the second phase of the project the tools are to be validated in a working bauxite mine in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the first test of the product in an industrial setting.

Mineral Exploration Earth Observation
Dariusz Tanajewski
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Dariusz Tanajewski
Head of Science & Innovation
I’m Head of Science & Innovation at TerraEye, where I lead the team developing geospatial intelligence solutions for the mining industry across the whole project lifecycle — from exploration to reclamation. I have over 15 years of experience in geospatial data science, more than five of them focused specifically on Earth Observation, and my work sits where EO science meets industrial deployment.