Terravisie Project – Detection of malpractises and environmental crime

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Did you know that Orbital Eye’s core technology, to detect relevant activities in SAR satellite data, has many more impactful applications than just pipeline monitoring?

One example is the Earth Observation (EO) based monitoring solution Terravisie, which is aimed at monitoring large scale earthworks at a national scale to detect malpractises and environmental crime. Orbital Eye is part of the consortium, together with 52impact, Sobolt and Science [&] Technology, that developed this service. Our role is to apply our radar technology to flag locations where activities take place involving large scale earth/raw material moving, after which our consortium partners assess those locations further to provide information on the type of material and volume involved. Truly a great example of what can be achieved when multiple specialist companies join forces to create something unique.

Working on MIT project with our partner Ellipsis Drive

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Yesterday we visited our partner Ellipsis Drive in their offices in Ede to work together on the final stages of our MIT cooperation grant funded by the Provincie Zuid-Holland.

In this project, our expertise on applying machine learning to satellite data for monitoring solutions is combined with Ellipsis’ expertise on efficient infrastructure solutions for storing geospatial data. This makes it easily sharable and efficiently accessibly for machine learning purposes.

Great to meet face-to-face again and have some hands-on time together to build cool things! 😎

Orbital Eye visited Enagas in Spain

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Yesterday, Elizabeth Antonopoulou, Ana Stavreva and Arnaud van den Berg visited Enagás at its headquarters in Madrid, where they discussed the current, and future partnership, between Enagas and Orbital Eye.

We were happy to finally meet our Enagás contacts, Ignacio de Cea Sarabia and Carlos Gómez Campo in person and enjoy some tapas y cervezas together as well! 🥘🎉

Next stop: Nedgia, grupo Naturgy in Barcelona! 🌞

 

10-year anniversary celebration in France!

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Last weekend, we all went together on a trip to northern France to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Orbital Eye with the team. We strengthened the bond between each other while learning a lot about French history. Three days full of emotions and unforgettable memories like indoor skydiving, a city tour in Lille, tasting French cuisine in fabulous restaurants, nights out, games in a castle, and many more. What’s next? The holiday is over, so it is time to get back to our normal lives and work even harder than before!

Mariann Alber is joining Orbital Eye as an UX Design intern

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We are happy to announce that a new member is joining the team! Mariann Alber started last week as an UX Design intern at Orbital Eye and below you can see what she shared with us 😊

“Hi, I am Mariann Alber, a second-year UX Design student at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The Netherlands has become a favorite place of mine after living in multiple countries during the last three years. The open-mindedness of its people and the nature of the country charmed me.

I enjoy spending my free time outside with my partner and family or playing board games together. My favorite way to relax is by putting puzzles together or playing adventure games on my Nintendo Switch. To expand my skills and challenge myself, I am always up for trying new things, like running 16km in the mud or going waterskiing. The best part about UX design for me is prototyping, I can get lost in time when I begin with it. I could do that for the rest of my life.

It will be my pleasure to put my skills to work as the first UX Design intern at Orbital Eye for the next five months. I’m eager to gain new experience and knowledge at a high-tech company. My goal is to attain a deep understanding of the workflow and create a visua

Field inspection of Third-Party Interferences

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Last week our data scientist Alessandro Marzo and M&S intern Ana Stavreva joined in the field inspection round of Third-Party Interferences (TPI) detected by our CoSMiC-EYE pipeline monitoring solution. These inspection rounds are part of our continuous system improvement and validation efforts and are used to test new service features under real-life conditions.
For Alessandro and Ana, it is a great opportunity to experience the solution they are working on firsthand as if being an end-user. This allows them to better understand and appreciate the needs and requirements of our customers which will in turn lead to services optimally tailored to our customers’ needs.

Although, the cloudy sky’s look quite threatening in the photos, Alessandro and Ana were lucky and kept their feet muddles this time.

A new member in the commercial team

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This summer, Ana Stavreva joined the commercial team of Orbital Eye. Welcome, Ana, we are happy to have you on-board! Below an introduction by Ana:

“My name is Ana Stavreva, and I am a third year business student at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Coming from Bulgaria, I increase the team diversity of Orbital eye even further. I am the person who will try to stay positive during tough times and will try to make you laugh. If I am not sleeping or working, I am probably hitting the gym or cooking something healthy. If you spend a whole day with me, you will learn a lot about my eating habits, so I am this weird person in the office who eats veggies, yogurt, chicken breasts, and other healthy stuff that no one will choose. In my free time, I like hiking, staying in the sun with friends, and traveling around the world.

Currently, I am in the last year of my bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Working in a high-tech company mainly with people with a technical background can possibly be a challenge, that I cannot wait to dive into. By joining the commercial team, I will strive to contribute to the international growth of Orbital Eye. I am very motivated for this, and look forward to expanding my network and gain working experience!”

Orbital Eye in Germany!

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The past two days Arnaud van den Berg and Ana Stavreva visited Germany to visit the E-world energy & water, the Impact Festival organized by E.ON (thanks OLiver Motz for the invitation!), and to meet with our German partners 🇩🇪.

It was very interesting to see all the other innovative solutions that are developed within E.on and to be able to talk about satellite-based pipeline monitoring with the German Industry experts.

Happy Birthday to ourselves!

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Today, Orbital Eye celebrates its 10-year anniversary. We are very proud to have reached this milestone together with everybody who contributed to this – partners, suppliers, customers, and most importantly, our employees!

In those 10 years, we have grown from a small ‘project group’ to a professional organization that is now serving customers all around the world and is contributing to sustainable monitoring of critical infrastructure in an innovative way through using satellite data!

We are looking forward to all the years to come and to further conquering the world. We can’t wait to see what the next 10 years will bring!

TPI Tuesday – Orbital Eye 10 years!

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Tomorrow, Orbital Eye celebrates its 10th anniversary! To get in the mood already, this TPI Tuesday is constructed by satellite images taken throughout those 10 years that together spell out the event we will be celebrating. Do you recognize any of the buildings that can be seen in these images? Stay tuned for more festive posts around our anniversary!