The Φ-lab (Phi-lab) is the Earth Observation innovation lab at the European Space Agency.

It has the mission of accelerating the future of Earth observation exploiting transformational innovation to strengthen European global competitiveness, by helping the earth observation researchers, talented innovator and entrepreneurs to adopt disruptive technologies and methods.

The Φ-lab brings experts from across the world to develop research on the relevance for Earth Observation of emerging technology topics including artificial intelligence, distributed ledgers and quantum computing .

[2][3] Representatives from industry, or academia can propose to work with Φ-lab on their own innovative case study, getting access to ESA EO huge competence, computing resources, and facilities.

The Φ-lab is also producing artificial intelligence models and making it available online as open source.