Efficient infrastructure management has never mattered more — in developed and developing regions alike.

From oil and gas to insurance, the cost of efficient infrastructure management is extremely high, but the cost of inefficient management is far higher. With XL data, we're helping to take monitoring and management efforts to new heights.

"AGING INFRASTRUCTURE IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM, IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPED REGIONS ALIKE, IMPACTING ALL ASPECTS OF MODERN HUMAN LIFE: CORPORATE, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL."

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"INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA HAVE TRANSFORMED EARTH SCIENCE." — SCIENCE.ORG

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Mining

Land movement during mining operations can be disastrous and costly. Regular monitoring and geo-hazard detection with XL data can cover mines, tilling pools and other related infrastructure.

Construction

Because of SAR's ability to image below smoke and at night — with simultaneous bands — XL data can enable heightened detection, tracking, and management of forest fires.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is a global challenge that impacts all aspects of human life. Mismanagement can lead to casualties and losses in the billions. Meanwhile, expanding urban populations, budget cuts, and increased inspection costs increase pose increasingly complex challenges.

Risk Assessment

SAR-XL is designed to detect, track, and predict natural disaster impact based on vegetation, land feature changes, and land subsidence. More precise and continual predictions can be made with reliable and consistent data, enabling accurate forecast models.

Insurance

Population growth in urban areas combined with shifting agricultural practices and climate shifts will continue to strain insurance needs and resources. XL data can provide accurate and efficient data to support decisions and claim investigations. reducing costs.

Oil & Gas

From leaking pipelines and oil spills, to landslides and volatile markets — XL data can deliver superior tracking, insight, and prediction thanks to in-space processing and dual-band capture. The result? Greater operational efficiency, lowered costs, and improved compliance.

Challenges this large require XL solutions.

From construction to natural disaster detection and response, the cost of efficient infrastructure management remains extremely high across sectors.

XL data marks a new era of geospatial intelligence for global applications, with information captured and processed in space, aided by AI and machine-learning integrations. These novel capabilities can result in vastly improved monitoring, management, and response.

SAR-XL Applications

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Civic Infrastructure, Insurance, and Resource Management

Aging infrastructure is a growing problem across the globe, impacting nearly every facet of human life: communities, individual health, businesses, and the environment. Mismanagement can lead to human casualties and cost billions of dollars. Meanwhile, existing challenges are made all the more demanding by the rapid expansion of urban populations, budget cuts, and the increasing cost of management.

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Agricultural Monitoring

Key Global Challenges

Accessibility — Developing regions and small-scale farmers lack access to high-quality, affordable data and tools
Adoption — In developed regions, there has yet to be rapid adoption of available data and tools

Crop Analysis — classification, yield estimates, growth projections

Soil Moisture — below thick foliage and crops

Land Analysis — field size, composition, etc.

Integrations — hydrological and crop-growth models

Monitoring — over the growing season, and year over year

Detection — agricultural activities, harvest sizes, weather damage

The SAR-XL Difference

Improved Land Analysis

SAR-XL allows for greater accuracy, wide-area coverage, and high-resolution data delivery. This data, which is processed onboard the satellite, can be analyzed in an instant. Over time, this allows for more precise predictive farming.

Size Meets Precision

Simultaneous bands make for improved data utility. L-band data provides wide-area coverage, while X-band data allows high-res accuracy, for improved analysis.

Massive Coverage

Huge swaths of land can be coverd, with strips as wide as 400km. When combined with high sensitivity to soil and crop characteristics, this can significantly increase the utility.

In-space Processing

High-speed processing, AI, and ML allow for reduced latency with efficient, accurate analysis Pre-processing allows for better utility Augments optical and SAR datasets.

Key Areas of SAR Application

of the globe's freshwater is used for agriculture

70%

people are food insecure, while rural women and children are along the worst effected

2.3B

of rural livelihoods are tied to agriculture

~86%

"NOW, AGRICULTURE IS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF YET ANOTHER REVOLUTION, AT THE HEART OF WHICH LIE DATA AND CONNECTIVITY. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS, CONNECTED SENSORS, AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES COULD FURTHER INCREASE YIELS, IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF WATER AND OTHER INPUTS, AND BUILD SUSTAINABILTIY AND RESILIANCE ACROSS CROP CULTIVATION AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY."

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"[SAR] HAS EMERGED AS A PROMISING TOOL FOR RAPID AND ACCURATE MONITORING OF WETLAND EXTENT AND TYPE. BY ACQUIRING INFORMATION ON THE ROUGHNESS AND MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE SURFACE, SAR OFFERS UNIQUE POTENTIAL FOR WETLAND MONITORING."

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Water Management

Key Issues

Efficient water management — aided by technological innovations like SAR-XL — is critical to reducing water wastage and flooding. With SAR data, we can determine everything from water body dimensions to water-flow rates, while measuring and predicting floods.

Fresh water will continue to be an increasingly precious resource as human populations grow and flock to arid urban centers. As a result, freshwater reserves will continue to be depleted, large-scale agriculture will demand more irrigation, and wetlands will remain threatened.

Key Applications for SAR-XL

Agricultural irrigation planning

Mapping surface water

Flood monitoring and prediction

Tracking transformation of wetlands and aquifers

Snowpack and permafrost changes

Coastline water level measurement

SAR-XL Management Highlights

L-band SAR

Penetrates soil to determine water content for uses like irrigation, while also determining crop health and near real-time flood monitoring.

Digital Elevation Models

Can be determined and applied to characterize watersheds and hydrological changes.

Faster Mapping

Thanks to SAR’s sensitivity to water content, which helps to map surface water and measure soil moisture content.

SAR Accuracy

An accuracy of over 95% improves monitoring over time.

Improved automated classification, tracking, and learning over time — including onboard processing, AI, and machine learning — which will result in more timely and useful data. While singleband SAR poses issues when studying water systems, combined bands can add much needed accuity.

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Insurance Management

Critical Areas

Natural disasters

Extreme rainfall

Property assessment

Risk assessment

Flooding

Hurricanes

The Difference SAR-XL Makes

Population growth in urban areas, combined with shifting agricultural practices and climate change, will continue to put strains on insurance needs and resources — from property risk assessment to natural disaster management. Managers can become overburdened by claims when disasters occur, slowing critical resources.

XL data can provide accurate and efficient data to support decisions and claim investigations. More precise and continual predictions can be made with reliable and consistent data, enabling accurate forecast models and reducing costs.

Massive Coverage

Thanks to its huge swath width of up to 400 kms, SAR-XL is designed to capture millions of kilometres of data daily.

Millions in Cost Savings

Better data utility makes for reduced long-term costs related to emergency response and infrastructure loss.

Improved Safety

With improved data utility and detection comes quicker response and more robust mitigation efforts.

Key SAR-XL Benefits

"TECH-DRIVEN INNOVATION IS FUNDAMENTALLY RESHAPING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY. EMERGING CAPABILITIES INCLUDING TELEMATICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, AND AUTOMATION HAVE TRANSFORMED NEARLY EVERY ASPECT OF THE INSURANCE VALUE CHAIN AND CONTINUE TO CREATE NEW AND IMPROVED OMNICHANNEL EXPERIENCES FOR CUSTOMERS..."

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"Insurers are likely to be judged not just by plans laid out in their annual sustainability reports, but by how their initiatives actually limit the impact of climate change and other nascent systemic environmental risks while addressing carbon emissions at the source..."

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of freshwater is used for agriculture

70%

of freshwater is used for agriculture

70%

of freshwater is used for agriculture

70%

Agriculture

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was the monetary cost of forest fires in Alaska and California, 2017-2018

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"AGING INFRASTRUCTURE IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM, IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPED REGIONS ALIKE, IMPACTING ALL ASPECTS OF MODERN HUMAN LIFE: CORPORATE, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL."

"IN THE COMING YEAR, REFINERIES COULD GRAPPLE WITH WEAKENING DEMAND, RECESSION WORRIES, AND A PROJECTED 1.6 MBPD INCREASE IN GLOBAL REFINING CAPACITY. NOTABLY, US-HEADQUARTERED REFINERS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO INCREASE CORE REFINING CAPACITY AS THEY PRIORITIZE FINANCIAL HEALTH, OPTIMIZE OPERATIONS, AND CONVERT REFINERIES TO PRODUCE RENEWABLE FUELS."

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Oil & Gas

Key Issues

Illegal Activity → Tampering and theft

Regulatory compliance → Compliance requirements increase regularly, demanding extra resources

Efficiency Management → Predict and plan for issues and improve processes

Oil spills → Cost billions and lead to sanctions

Monitoring & Analysis → logistics, targets, yields

Smaller Leaks → Leaks compound in severity and cost unless they are captured early

Critical Applications

Tank reservoirs

Oil pipelines

Environmental risk

Induced seismicity

Offshore rigs & transport

Pricing analysis & prediction

Sea ice, bergs

Spills & leaks

Construction

Geo-hazards

Vegetation incursion

Theft, dark vessels

SAR-XL Solutions

Technology Highlights

Bypasses atmospheric effects
Achieves wide-area coverage over maritime areas
Produces highly-precise InSAR imagery

Onboard Processing

Detects and processes changes
Classifies data prior to delivery

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Precise SAR-XL Data

Improves monitoring and efficiency
Reduces costs and creates fewer issues

Accurate Detection Capabilities

Subsidence and ground motion
Rise and fall of storage container lids
Flow volumes and capacities
Damage detection and prediction

Inspection → efficiently plan on-site inspections

focus efforts on the right place and time
improve maintenance, reducing in-person costs

Production → increase production while reducing costs

Prediction → reduce damage with better prediction while predicting yields and changes over time

Incidence Detection → early detection and response

Prevention → data-driven prediction and decision making

Superior Solutions

Civic Infrastructure

Critical Challenges

Climate Shifts: shifting weather patterns, sea level rise, flooding
Aging Infrastructure: monitoring, reconstruction
Population Shifts: megacities, smart cities
Regulations: social, environmental, corporate

Impact of SAR

SAR remains a proven tool for preventative and restorative infrastructure management. Spaceborne SAR can detect damaged civic infrastructure like bridges and train tracks, port facilities and dams, while predicting disasters and accidents by monitoring ground subsidence.

Supporting the infrastructure maintenance cycle, Xl data provides a powerful tool to support data-driven decision-making, inspection, evaluation, and action.

The SAR-XL Difference

Bridge Engineering Inspections: Inspections are accurately prioritized, reducing costs and improving safety.

Superior 3D Modelling: Modelling with a data footprint of up to 400km; the largest among NewSpace SAR providers.

Land Subsidence: Derive millimetric data, predict stability issues, and determine the risk to reduce maintenance costs.

Road Evaluations: Reduce costs and fewer in-person inspections.

Safety & Security: Improved monitoring and accuracy.

Inspection & Repair: Improved efficiency and management.

Time Series Collection: Ongoing collection and analysis, whereby data utility improves over time.

Key SAR Monitoring Applications

Structures: Bridges, Dams, Buildings
Transport: Tunnels, Roads
Facilities: Water systems, Sewage systems, Power plants, Airports

"INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE BACKBONE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, CONNECTING PEOPLE, ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE, AND PROMOTING HEALTH AND SAFETY. BUT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REVEALING INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITIES."

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