Operational deployment of CoSMiC-EYE at NGC Trinidad and Tobago

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Good news: after a successful pilot, our trusted partner The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited has signed a contract to continue using the CoSMiC-EYE monitoring service for at least the next 2 years!

This means that the next 2 years, Orbital Eye will ensure that NGC is informed about all potential dangerous activities around its pipelines, contributing to an increased safety on Trinidad and Tobago.

Although Covid-19 has taught us that our service can be implemented and provided remotely, we can’t wait to visit our partner on-site. ☀️ 🌍

CoSMiC-EYE whitepaper

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More and more oil and gas companies are adopting Orbital Eye’s satellite-based monitoring technology CoSMiC-EYE to monitor their Right-of-Way. Companies in this industry increasingly recognise the value of our technology for keeping their operations and the environment safe, and for ensuring a constant supply of energy to their customers. CoSMiC-EYE complements or substitutes current monitoring methods, such as helicopter-based inspections or ground patrols. But how does this technology actually work?

You can now read all about it in a recently published whitepaper, written by Sven van Haver and Alexander Blauw, via this link: Whitepaper CoSMiC-EYE

A new member for the fast growing company Orbital Eye

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This week Orbital Eye welcomed a new team-member, Jelle Mol.
Jelle graduated from the Aerospace Engineering Master at the Delft University of Technology, where he specialised in the Space Exploration and Space Flight track. Apart from his Space know-how, he also has a background in mathematics and physics as he completed a double degree Bachelor program in Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics. We are sure Jelle will help Orbital Eye forward, where he will start as a software engineer EO to improve the current change detection and classification methods and help them integrate in the processing chain. Outside of work, Jelle spends his time playing soccer or other sports, and he is actively involved with his soccer club as a volunteer in the club’s board.
Orbital Eye is now expanding rapidly. With currently four vacancies we will update you hopefully soon again about new members. For now, welcome Jelle, we wish you good luck but also lots of fun!

Exciting positions available at Orbital Eye

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As Orbital Eye is growing fast, we are also growing our team! We have some exciting new roles available, check them out via below links:

New member to the Orbital Eye team: Kevin De hulsters

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Yesterday you could read about an intern leaving Orbital Eye, but today we have news about an intern joining Orbital Eye, Kevin De hulsters! Kevin will be working on analysing and integrating new data sources into the CoSMiC-EYE technology to further enhance the capability of weather-independent detection of activities.

Kevin has completed the Bachelor Aerospace Engineering at the Technische Universiteit Delft and is now following the Master in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on Space Flight. In his free time, Kevin likes to work on game design such as the Invertigo project he is currently working on.

Welcome Kevin, we are looking forward to working with you!

Completed internship Ingmar

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Last week we said goodbye to our intern Ingmar Boshuizen with a lunch and a drink at the office. After an internship of 5 months at Orbital Eye, Ingmar is returning to the TU Delft to finish his master in Aerospace Engineering.

Thanks Ingmar for all the good work you did, it was great to have you in the team!

Below a small testimonial of Ingmar about his internship:

In the past couple of months, I did an internship project at Orbital Eye into the improvement of the location stability of the SAR-CCD algorithm. An important parameter in this research was the Equivalent Number of Looks. I found a way to get a stable estimate of this parameter based on the radar data. By making it dependent of the latitude, it can be estimated for all customers of Orbital Eye.
I would like to thank the team of Orbital Eye for making me feel welcome and involved in the team from the start of the internship. Furthermore, I would like to thank Alexander Blauw for his time and guidance during the project and Sven van Haver for giving me the opportunity to work at Orbital Eye. I enjoyed my time at Orbital Eye and would definitely consider working here when I finish my studies.

Sven van Haver takes on new role as CEO

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We have some exciting news to share! Our current CTO, Sven van Haver will take on the role of CEO. Sven takes over from Erik Zoutman, who has been acting CEO for the past 2 years.

Sven was formerly responsible for Orbital Eye’s R&D and product roadmaps. He helped the company evolve from a promising start-up to a fast-growing scale-up and is considered the top candidate to lead Orbital Eye through the next exciting phases ahead. With Sven taking the lead of the company we are both assured of a continued strong position as technology leaders in the earth observation-based asset monitoring domain, as well as an increased focus on targeting new market segments.  As one of the co-founders, Erik Zoutman will stay involved with the company as a member of the advisory board.

Sven holds a PhD in Applied Physics from the Delft University of Technology and has a strong background in electromagnetism, scattering and diffraction theory. He started his career in the semiconductor industry at S&T, the mother company of Orbital Eye. In 2015 he got involved with Orbital Eye, and played an important role the development of our key technology to detect relevant activities on the earth’s surface. In 2017 he officially joined Orbital Eye as CTO, where he continued to improve this technology and led the team to develop our current flagship solution CoSMiC-EYE.

We wish Sven all the best in his new role and look forward to the many successes we expect to celebrate together.

The Orbital Eye team

We are hiring!

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Update – This position has been filled

We are looking for an (experienced) Software Engineer who has a passion for Earth Observation and real world applications. Do you know your way around Python? Do you have experience with developing and maintaining ( DevOps ) processing environments ? And have worked with EO data in the past? Then this is the role for you! Find out more information about this role via this link.

Orbital Eye 9 years!

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Happy birthday to ourselves! 🎂🎉

This week, we celebrate our 9th birthday and we already enter into our 10th year in business! The past 9 years have been an amazing journey. During the first years, we were mainly developing and validating our technology, and the last years we have been conquering the world with our monitoring solution. Over the years, our team has grown into the great, international team that we have today and we will keep growing the coming time. In the pictures you can see some of the fun and experiences that we had over the years.

Cheers! 🥂🍻

 

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Monitoring the national gas grid of Spain

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Yesterday we kicked off a project with Enagás, Spain’s largest gas transmission operator. During this project, we will monitor a part of the Spanish national gas grid, to detect Third Party Interferences and report these to Enagas. Until now, Enagas was using traditional monitoring methods such as helicopter surveillance and ground patrol by car. However, in this project, we are demonstrating that monitoring by satellite can be more reliable, more sustainable and more efficient.

We are looking forward to working together with Enagás and make this project a success!

Do you want to know more about how we use our technology to monitor Third Party Interferences for Enagas? Feel free to send an email to info@orbitaleye.nl!