Research directions
This page describes where Northflow is going. Everything here is stated as direction, not as a service we offer today. It is deliberately kept apart from the proof surfaces so that ambition never gets mistaken for a capability claim.
For what runs in production right now, see Research and Governance and assurance.
EARTH OBSERVATION
The broadest active research area
Claimable today
PSE is operational and open source with six live connectors. OFW (deforestation, EUDR compliance) is in development and near release. The Sentinel adapter is in development.
Direction
Earth observation is the broadest active research area at Northflow, spanning wildfire risk, deforestation verification, marine and subsea monitoring, and infrastructure vulnerability mapping. These are directions, not services we offer today. The architecture (PSE for data fusion, HGE for hypothesis generation) is what makes the breadth tractable without rebuilding per domain.
ENERGY
From three live countries toward Europe
Claimable today
FLUX is operational with live country configurations for Indonesia, Kenya, and Vietnam. It is proprietary, built on open-source PSE. EFOS, the European energy grid flexibility and coordination concept, is at research stage.
Direction
European energy work is intent, tied to EFOS rather than to FLUX. EFOS is the European-facing concept and is where grid flexibility and coordination research sits; conflating it with FLUX would imply a European deployment that does not exist. FLUX today is Indonesia, Kenya, and Vietnam.
MARINE AND SUBSEA
MARVIS v2 and continued marine research
Claimable today
MARVIS v1 established a 5-layer Bayesian inference pipeline, hindcast against confirmed European subsea incidents with signed evidence bundles. It has been returned to development for v2. No prospective monitoring is claimed.
Direction
Marine and subsea monitoring remains an active research area feeding into the broader Earth observation programme. MARVIS v2 targets forward operational validation on a live corridor with a pilot partner: the evidence a future submission would need, gone out and earned rather than asserted in advance.
A standing commitment
Open science, backed by artifacts anyone can open.
Institutional credibility requires transparency. Our validation methodology, data pipelines, and research outputs are publicly available and independently runnable. This is a commitment, not a claim, and it is backed by four artifacts anyone can open.
PSE
Planetary Sensing Engine. Apache 2.0, github.com/northflowlabs/pse
ClimVal
Climate model validation library. PyPI, Apache 2.0
CERES
Open data (CC BY 4.0) and a public prospective grading ledger
Notebooks
Runnable in Binder, no credentials, no local setup
Fund a direction, or run the systems.
Roadmaps are what agencies fund and pilot partners help earn. If a direction is yours, talk to us. If you want what already runs, use the systems.