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!

Orbital Eye uses 2 types of satellite data for effective pipeline monitoring; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical data. A high temporal SAR analysis is performed for the full pipeline network to detect Third Party Interferences (TPIs) near the network.

Disadvantage of SAR? You can detect a change, but not always the exact cause.

So why not just use high-resolution imagery instead of radar?

✅ SAR data can be used in the presence of clouds
✅ SAR data is free, high-resolution images are not

To complement the SAR data, we order high-res images, but only for the areas where the SAR has detected potential TPIs, to avoid unnecessary tasking of high-res satellites. This calls for a classic optimization approach: how to cover the maximum number of radar TPIs with the minimum amount of high-res km2, taking into account various constraints and environmental parameters.

Using advanced optimization algorithms, such as differential evolution, particle swarm optimization and various other genetic algorithms, our in-house developed automated tasking tool is able to find the best possible areas to be submitted for tasking by a high-res satellite. The implementation of this tool is a big step forward to further enhance the scalability of our pipeline monitoring solution CoSMiC-EYE.