Phase 2 of SBIR Bouwfasen is awarded to Orbital Eye consortium

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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!

John Isles 5 years at Orbital Eye

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Celebration at Orbital Eye! 🎂

Last week, we digitally celebrated that our system architect John Isles is with us for 5 years. John has developed the infrastructure behind our cloud-based monitoring solution, ensuring that our customers always have access to a stable and safe application! Besides, in office times, John often took his dog Rocky to the office to bring some entertainment 🐶.

Some other cool facts about John, remote working is nothing new for him. He has been working for Orbital Eye while taking a trip to the North Cape in his van, which is fully equipped to serve as a mobile office. Besides, John has done a canoe trip on Canada’s longest river, traveling more than 1500 kilometers by canoe!🌍

We are looking forward to having John with us for many more years. Congratulations, John!🥂

Orbital Eye teams welcomes a new member: Ingmar Boshuizen

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Today Orbital Eye welcomed a new member to the team, Ingmar Boshuizen.

Ingmar 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. At Orbital Eye, Ingmar will be working on further optimising the change detection algorithms, making them function optimally, independent of the geographical location of the area to be monitored. In his free time, Ingmar likes to play Futsal at FC Tutor in Delft.

Fun fact, the Orbital Eye team is now more and more spread around the globe! We have John Isles working from Australia, Elizabeth Antonopoulou from Greece, Alessandro Marzo from Italy and the rest of us from The Netherlands. Truly an international company 😎🌍

Welcome Ingmar, we are happy to have you on board!

Analyze events as small as pipeline exposure in optical satellite data!

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A lot of people have probably seen the satellite images of the ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal and the traffic jam of ships waiting to pass the canal… These ships of hundreds of meters long are easily detectable in the radar image.

But did you know that images from optical satellites can also be used to analyse much smaller objects and events? In the red circle in the image, a screenshot of our CoSMiC-EYE application, you can see a wash-out that has cause exposure of the pipeline. This is an event of only a couple of meters; still the optical satellite imagery is very helpful for analysing the event!

Do you want to know more about how we at Orbital Eye combine data from radar- and optical satellites to detect events as small as this wash-out? Send an email to info@orbitaleye.nl and we will tell you all about it!

Orbital Eye at Pipeline Technology Conference 2021

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We are looking forward to attending the 2021 Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) in 2 weeks. At this conference, we will present about how our monitoring technology is validated in several studies and operational pilots in the past years.

Are you interested in this presentation but not able to attend the conference? Send an email to info@orbitaleye.nl and we will make sure you will receive the results of the validation studies and pilots as well.

Are you attending the conference and want to meet to our people? Feel free to send an email to info@orbitaleye.nl and we’ll set something up.

Project started with GRTgaz

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Recently, Orbital Eye B.V. started a project with one of Europe’s largest Gas Transmission Network Operators, GRTgaz. In this project, we are monitoring part of their network to check for Third Party Interferences. The first weeks have already proved that our technology picks up both known activities for GRTgaz, as well as activities that were unknown. We are looking forward to further showcase our capabilities to this customer!

A new member to the Orbital Eye team!

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Meet the newest member of our team, Alessandro Marzo!

This month, Alessandro Marzo from Italy has joined our team as an intern. Alessandro has a bachelor’s degree in Physics, and is currently following the master Applied Physics at the Università di Bologna. At Orbital Eye, Alessandro will do a master thesis project aimed at further extending and enhancing our classification capabilities on EO-data by applying AI and data fusion techniques.

In his free time, Alessandro loves hiking, enjoys long walks in the city or by the beach, reading books and watching movies and TV shows.

Orbital Eye facilitates the internship of Alessandro completely remotely, which means that Alessandro is working from Italy. Of course, we hope to meet him in person when times are better, but for now we are happy to expand our international team via this way!

Welcome to the team, Alessandro Marzo!

Granted SBIR – Monitoring construction phases

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Since the early days, Orbital Eye B.V. offers satellite based monitoring solutions detecting activities like excavations and construction works. Last month, we were granted a SBIR Phase 1 feasibility project, by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), to further extend these capabilities to also include the detection and reporting of different construction phases within a site. The aim of this project is to ultimately develop a construction phase monitoring service for the Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid to enhance and extend their inspection capabilities and efficiency.

We look very much forward to take up this challenge together with our partners Science [&] Technology and 52impact in the coming months.

MarineEO project successfully completed

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Recently, another cool Orbital Eye project (MarineEO) was successfully completed. The goal of the project was to develop Earth Observation based services to increase maritime awareness (marine-eo.eu). Last week, the final results were presented and well received by many stakeholders from the maritime safety sector.

In this project, Orbital Eye developed, together with our mother company Science [&] Technology and Belgium partner Sonaca, the Maritime Scene Investigation (MSI) system, which uses satellite data combined with AIS to detect anomalous ship behaviour and coastal infractions. Check out the screenshot to get an impression of the system!

We are proud to have been part of this project and are happy to see that our technology could be used for yet another interesting application. Interested to learn if our technology can also help to solve your monitoring & inspection challenges in a sustainable and cost-effective way? Please visit orbitaleye.nl or send an email to info@orbitaleye.nl and we will contact you shortly to discuss the possibilities.

Another big step for Orbital Eye!

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In our last post you could read that Orbital Eye B.V. will start monitoring pipelines in Trinidad and Tobago. We also provide our services much closer to our home-basis, The Netherlands!

After several years of successful cooperation and co-development with the Defensie Pijpleiding Organisatie (DPO) of the Ministerie van Defensie we have started operational #thirdpartyriskmanagement for their pipelines as of January 1st 2021 – to make sure that all activities that could be a threat to the pipeline are detected and reported as soon as possible. DPO currently uses the helicopter as one of the methods to keep an eye on its pipelines, we are excited to add our satellite-based monitoring technology to DPO’s monitoring capabilities.

If you want to know more about how we monitor pipelines using satellite technology, do not hesitate to contact us via the contact form or an email to info@orbitaleye.nl