Yesterday Orbital Eye met in Buffalo with its customer from New York State: National Fuel Gas Company. 🇺🇸

Orbital Eye has monitored part of National Fuel’s pipeline network since summer 2022, and the promising results of this first monitoring period were discussed during the meeting at National Fuel’s headquarters. In this project, we worked together with GTI Energy and Energy Experts International, who also attended the meeting in Buffalo.

The meeting was concluded in style in a typical Buffalo restaurant with Michael Darr from National Fuel and Joseph Irwin, PE from GTI Energy. We are looking forward to the continued cooperation!

Last week, the Orbital Eye team met with our office neighbors – the Sensar team! As we are both providing monitoring services based on satellite data there was plenty of information and knowledge to exchange. Whereas Orbital Eye uses satellite data to detect activities at the earth’s surface, Sensar looks at movements of the earth’s surface by being able to detect millimeter-precise ground movements.

Information about ground movement is also of interest to pipeline operators – as ground movement can lead to for example increased stress on pipelines, pipeline exposure, or reduced depth-of-cover.

It was nice to catch up with the neighbors, both on the technology aspects during the technical sessions as well as on the social aspects during the drinks!

Not only Biden is visiting Warsaw, but so is Orbital Eye! 🇵🇱

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today Arnaud van den Berg and Stijn Hoefsloot met with a new customer, located in Warsaw, and visited the Economic Department NL Embassy in Poland to discuss how Orbital Eye can further expand its satellite-based pipeline monitoring services to Poland.

Thanks Sanne Kaasjager and Frank van de Pieterman for the warm welcome at the embassy! We are looking forward to working together in providing this innovative technology to the Polish market.

Orbital Eye is working closely together with many partners in the EO Downstream Services eco-system. One of them is Ellipsis Drive, a geospatial platform provider with a mission to democratize spatial data for all.

For the past 2 years, we partnered with them on the COSMIC-SENSE project funded by a Provincie Zuid-Holland MIT grant. In this project, Orbital Eye’s expertise in satellite data processing and data fusion of different sensors was combined with the state-of-the-art geospatial data hosting and dissemination capabilities of Ellipsis Drive’s geospatial platform. This resulted in strongly simplified data hosting and access, which in turn enabled the efficient integration of new satellite data sources into the Orbital Eye monitoring solutions and enhanced our capabilities to apply advanced AI to our mixed satellite datasets.

Altogether, a very fruitful cooperation upon which we continue to build in the future.

Orbital Eye’s satellite-based monitoring solution CoSMiC-EYE uses imagery from multiple satellite sensors to detect activities in the pipeline Right-of-Way.

✔︎ Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) from Sentinel-1
✔︎ Multispectral data from Sentinel-2
✔︎ High-resolution optical imagery from commercial satellites

CoSMiC-EYE automatically processes all collected satellite data, and its algorithms detect activities that could potentially damage pipelines. By using data from multiple satellite sensors, it is ensured that no activity in the pipeline Right-of-Way is missed by the system.

In today’s video, an example can be seen of a groundwork activity that was flagged by the automatic analysis of SAR-, multispectral-, and high-res optical satellite data. This illustrates that such an activity can be picked up by the analysis of each individual satellite source – but also that by combining data from different satellite sources those kinds of activities will not be missed by the system!