Academic Partnerships & Resources

Empowering research with reliable and comprehensive environmental data

Data that Addresses the Needs of Academia

Data Accessibility

Availability of asset-level insights on a variety of topics related to environmental, climate, and physical risk in formats that work for different research tasks.

Data Reliability & Accuracy

Data objectivity and reliability through direct measurements of ESG data, as opposed to self-reported or survey based.

Integration with Tools

Available Google integration with BigQuery, Data Studio, Vertex AI Workbench, Cloud Run, and available through Google Cloud Marketplace

Data Coverage

Asset-level coverage across assets, companies, industries, sectors, countries, or regions


Efficient Data Processing

Ready-to-use datasets that are standardized to enhance comparability.

Updated & Real-Time Data

Timely updates ensure more frequent data to better understand company processes.


Benefits to Academia

Having navigated both academic and industry landscapes, the RS Metrics team is aware of the challenges researchers encounter when seeking affordable, timely, and insightful data for their projects. That is why, RS Metrics also offers exclusive academic data packages, tailored to support researchers interested in including satellite-derived data in their work.

Deeply committed to inter-disciplinary innovation and fostering collaboration, our team has had the privilege of collaborating and sharing data with esteemed universities like Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and others.

Here's a glimpse of RS Metrics ESGSignals® Academic Offer:

Independent, objective, and verified data suitable for various academic research purposes

Environmental, Climate, and Physical Asset-Level Data for Companies

Access to ESGSignals® environmental, climate, and physical asset-level data for companies (covering themes such as water stress, land usage, land cover, heat and cold wave risk, proximity to and overlap with biodiversity hotspots, species distribution, ENCORE mapping, ecosystem mapping and more than 100 other indicators)

Different data delivery options - 
CSV file or BigQuery table via Analytics Hub

ESG Data for Portfolio Analysis, Baselining, and Assessment

Opportunity to use our data for ESG focused Portfolio Analysis (Construction | Screening | Monitoring), Baselining & Benchmarking ESG Performance, and TNFD LEAP Aligned Natural Capital & Biodiversity Assessment

Collaborate with RS Metrics to Drive Innovation in ESG Research

Ability to further collaborate with RS Metrics on exclusive research proposals or use the data insights for papers or conference submissions*

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Use derived results in your publications, but do not distribute raw data.

  • Outline the potential research opportunities the platform offers.
  • Describe the value of the data for educational purposes.
  • Highlight potential collaborative ventures.
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The challenges of climate and physical risk for sustainability cannot be answered by a single academic discipline. They require an interdisciplinary approach, which is why RS Metrics focuses on establishing partnerships with various climate science, geospatial, AI, fin-tech and capital markets organizations. We enable academia to access the quality data it needs to forge powerful solutions to the most acute challenges of our lifetime

Maneesh Sagar

Senior Adviser Chairman and CEO of RS Metrics,

Innovation Fellow and a Founding Career Coach at
Columbia Business School

AssetTracker

Basic

Number of Companies:

Up to 10

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price:

(One-time Data Delivery)

$500

Premium

Number of Companies:

Up to 100

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price:

(One-time Data Delivery)

$5000

Ultimate

Number of Companies:

> 100

Data Delivery Method:

CSV | API

Price:

(One-time Data Delivery)

ESGSignals®

Basic

Number of Assets

Up to 1000

Physical Risk Data at an Asset Level

Biodiversity Data at an Asset Level

-

Data Delivery Method

CSV

Price
(One-time Data Delivery)

$1000

Premium

Number of Assets

Up to 5000

Physical Risk Data at an Asset Level

Biodiversity Data at an Asset Level

Data Delivery Method

CSV

Price
(One-time Data Delivery)

$5000

Ultimate

Number of Assets

>5000

Physical Risk Data at an Asset Level

Biodiversity Data at an Asset Level

Data Delivery Method

API

Price
(One-time Data Delivery)

EVTracker™

Standard

Data Coverage

All Available Historical Data

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price (One-Time Data Delivery)

$1000

Custom

Data Coverage

A Custom Subset of Existing Data

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price:
(One-time Data Delivery)

MetalSignals™

Standard

Data Coverage

All Available Historical Data

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price (One-Time Data Delivery)

$2000

Custom

Data Coverage

A Custom Subset of Existing Data

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price:
(One-time Data Delivery)

Traffic Signals

Standard

Data Coverage

All Available Historical Data

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price (One-Time Data Delivery)

$5000

Custom

Data Coverage

A Custom Subset of Existing Data

Data Delivery Method:

CSV

Price:
(One-time Data Delivery)

Features

Number of Companies

Data Delivery Method

Price
(One-time Data Delivery)

Basic

Up to 10

CSV

$500

Premium

Up to 100

CSV

$5000

Ultimate

>100

CSV | API

Contact Us

Features

Number of Assets

Physical Risk Data at an Asset Level

Biodiversity Data at an Asset Level

Data Delivery Method

Price
(One-time Data Delivery)

Basic

Up to 1000

-

CSV

$1000

Premium

Up to 5000

CSV

$5000

Ultimate

>5000

API

Contact Us

Features

Data Coverage

Data Delivery Method

Price (One-Time Data Delivery)

Standard

All Available Historical Data

CSV

$1000

Custom

A Custom Subset of Existing Data

CSV

Contact Us

Features

Data Coverage

Data Delivery Method

Price (One-Time Data Delivery)

Standard

All Available Historical Data

CSV

$2000

Custom

A Custom Subset of Existing Data

CSV

Contact Us

Features

Data Coverage

Data Delivery Method

Price (One-Time Data Delivery)

Standard

All Available Historical Data

CSV

$5000

Custom

A Custom Subset of Existing Data

CSV

Contact Us

Collaboration Opportunities Section

If you’re interested in collaborating with us for a joint research project or have questions about specific types of data, please contact our team and we will be happy to discuss your data needs.

As a Build Partner of Google Cloud, we can also offer opportunities for creating technology solutions that make a difference using services like BigQuery with our data.

If your academic institution is interested in exploring more about our partner’s opportunities for the sphere of education, you can click on the links below.