Today we highlight the radar based capabilities of CoSMiC-EYE. The radar cuts through the clouds and provides situational awareness under any circumstances. Often clouds obscure the view of optical satellites, as was the case at this location in the Netherlands on the 7th of April. On the last cloudless image of the 2nd of March no activity had started. Our radar analysis notified the customer about this activity already on the 20th of March and again on the 8th of April. A fully cloudless image could only be provided on the 9th of April. Therefore, the radar-based technology of CoSMiC-EYE created an alert almost 3 weeks in advance of the optical satellites.

A monitoring service should be weather independent to provide consistent and reliable reports. At the core of CoSMiC-EYE is a Sentinel-1 radar-based algorithm that can satisfy this constraint and serve customers worldwide under all weather conditions.

For all the insights on our radar technology, you can read our white paper here: https://lnkd.in/e9jhuv7z

This week we present a very Dutch TPI Tuesday, as tomorrow we are celebrating the birthday of our king, Willem-Alexander, in the Netherlands! It’s a national holiday, where the streets will be filled with orange-dressed people and decorations! 🤴🏻 🇳🇱

In this TPI Tuesday, you can see another very Dutch aspect, namely the tulip fields that are now starting to turn into very colorful pieces of land again🌷. This is an example of 50cm resolution optical satellite imagery – the quality of imagery that we also provide to our customers.

To our Dutch followers – We wish you a Happy and Sunny Kingsday! ☀️

Object identification based on the high-resolution optical imagery is an important aspect of the CoSMiC-EYE system. These images enable the operators to classify the reported activity from the office and to make a first risk assessment. Today’s TPI-Tuesday shows the detection of a crane based on our Sentinel-1 radar analysis. The high-resolution optical was provided during the reporting to the customer and clearly shows a red crane appearing. The on-site photograph of this event confirms what we could already learn from the satellite imagery. Hence, CoSMiC-EYE is a well-integrated solution in the daily operations of field operators all around the world.

One of the advantages of using CoSMiC-EYE as a monitoring technology is that construction sites can easily be monitored over longer periods of time. The groundworks that are shown in today’s TPI Tuesday started end of 2020, and are still ongoing. In the optical imagery, available in the CoSMiC-EYE application, it can easily be seen how the works are expanding over time, and also if the works are expanding over the pipeline corridor. This way, the operators only need to go into the field when the works are getting closer to the pipeline, and they can easily see when works are finished!

In today’s TPI Tuesday we present a case of large road works detected in the city of Paris. The use of satellite-based optical images allows for the monitoring of the evolution of such large works overtime by pipeline operators on the field, to identify potential new threats to the pipeline, linked to the same large activity.

In areas such as cities where access to works can be slow and difficult due to traffic jams, such optical images allow pipeline operators to ensure the integrity of their pipeline directly from the office.