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TPI Tuesday – House Construction Detected

This week’s TPI Tuesday covers the detection of a threat via radar- and optical satellite imagery; the construction of a house. This specific activity, which includes preparatory ground works, is located right at the crossing between two gas pipelines and presents a high level of threat if not detected in time. Detection and reporting, as […]

Orbital Eye is growing!

This month, another member was welcomed to the Orbital Eye Team! We are happy to have Stijn Hoefsloot on board as an R&D intern. Below you can find a nice introduction by Stijn! “Most people call me Stijn and I have been wandering around on this beautiful planet for about 26 years now. After finishing […]

TPI Tuesday – Dredging Activity Detected

In today’s TPI Tuesday, we see a dredging activity that was detected by the CoSMiC-EYE system. Dredging often poses a serious threat to the pipeline integrity, since heavy machinery is used, as can be seen in the upper left image that was taken by the field operators. On the right, the radar signal is depicted […]

TPI Tuesday – Ditch filling detected

This week’s TPI Tuesday covers the filling of a ditch and the dangers it can provide. As normal as a small ditch may seem, filling it up can be a threat to the pipeline that lies just underneath. The Netherlands is full of these small canals used mostly by agriculture. It is difficult to spot […]

TPI Tuesday – road construction detected

In today’s TPI Tuesday you can see a road or path that is constructed in a meadow, part of that road is covering the pipeline. Although this activity might not include groundworks and therefore does not pose a direct threat to the pipeline, operators still want to be informed about these kinds of activities, because […]

Situational Awareness under all weather conditions

Today we highlight the radar based capabilities of CoSMiC-EYE. The radar cuts through the clouds and provides situational awareness under any circumstances. Often clouds obscure the view of optical satellites, as was the case at this location in the Netherlands on the 7th of April. On the last cloudless image of the 2nd of March […]

TPI Tuesday – New Crane Detected

CoSMiC-EYE allows monitoring works over extended periods of time. Here, a zone located next to a gas pipeline in Paris was being monitored for ground leveling activities, which present a potential danger to pipelines. A crane has recently been installed in the area, and new structures are arising in that location. CoSMiC-EYE alerts gas operators […]

Orbital Eye visits GRTgaz in Paris!

This week, Arnaud van den Berg and Pauline Liaume are visiting Paris to meet with our customer GRTgaz. Today, they visited the RICE Research and Innovation Center for Energy of GRTgaz to present and discuss the performance of CoSMiC-EYE in current project. They also went into the city of Paris to visit some actual construction […]

TPI Tuesday – Kingsday Edition πŸ‘‘

This week we present a very Dutch TPI Tuesday, as tomorrow we are celebrating the birthday of our king, Willem-Alexander, in the Netherlands! It’s a national holiday, where the streets will be filled with orange-dressed people and decorations! 🀴🏻 πŸ‡³πŸ‡± In this TPI Tuesday, you can see another very Dutch aspect, namely the tulip fields […]

TPI Tuesday – Easter Edition 🐰πŸ₯š

Usually, CoSMiC-EYE detects construction activities or excavators close to pipeline networks – but sometimes we also have very special detections. For one of our customers, we had detected an object close to the pipeline with the radar satellites, which was hard to recognize in the optical imagery. However, after an on-site visit by the operators […]