by Sven Przywarra Global issues need global solutions. Global questions need global answers. Global answers require global data sets, data sets from space. Here’s why satellite analytics could be one of the keys to living more prosperous and sustainable lives. Satellite data is available in abundance today. When made usable…

The importance of utility vegetation management is growing as weather events become more severe; satellites can help. More utilities are adding satellite analytics to their toolbox in their vegetation management process. LiveEO, a satellite analytics company, has rolled out its vegetation management solution with utilities around the globe. In the following paragraphs, we share some of the things we have learned during the process.

A combination of natural processes and people’s activities is causing the global landscape to change rapidly. In order to ensure the sustainable use of our natural resources, monitoring systems have become a necessity. …

LiDAR and satellite both play their role in vegetation management. Indeed, LiDAR was crucial for bringing the process into the digital age, while satellite ensures a monitoring capability for many infrastructure networks. LiDAR is undoubtedly an incredible technological capability, and witnessing actual objects transformed into 3D digital representations is inspirational…

Ground deformation processes can be measured continuously with an accuracy down to millimeters and you don’t even need to be in the field, you can do it from space. — By Hanna Schreier Ground movements include all geological or mining caused changes in the surface of the earth. Those movements can put a risk to people, buildings and infrastructures. Big changes caused by earthquakes can have catastrophic effects. But what about smaller, lurking changes?

by Hanna Schreier Since the year 2000, wildfires caused economic losses of around 149 Billion US-Dollar worldwide, with 2018 being the most extreme with damages exceeding 20 billion US-Dollar (Aon plc. 2019). …

by Hanna Schreier Remember Kyrill? That heavy storm that moved over Europe in January of 2007. It was the first storm in my lifetime (that I remember) which had catastrophic effects. This cyclone killed 47 people and led to damages of about 8 billion euros. Kyrill destroyed 60 million trees…