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!

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

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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Great news! After successfully completing the 1st phase of the ‘SBIR Bouwfasen’ together with our partners Science [&] Technology and 52impact, the 2nd phase of this SBIR has been awarded to our consortium as well by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)!

In the 1st phase, we did a feasibility study on to what extent it is possible to detect and identify different phases on a construction site, such as ground works, placing foundation, main construction works and completion of construction works, using on satellite data.

Orbital Eye contributed to this study by developing and applying a machine learning algorithm based on radar satellite data, to predict the transitions of different phases within large construction areas.

In the 2nd phase, we will further develop this capability and apply it to multiple construction sites. We are looking forward to it!