Applications

Ice monitoring is the continuous monitoring of ice thickness in port harbors and freezing shipping routes. It is carried out to ensure safe navigation of ships, increase the speed of traversing partially ice-covered waterways, plan support in icy areas, and make passes through the ice.
Our service allows you to:

• Identify ice that poses a potential hazard and determine its parameters such as occupied area, geographical coordinates, and others.
• Detect large ice channels, cracks, rifts, ridges, floes, hummocks, and leads, and evaluate their degrading parameters during the initial period of ice melting.

Satellite monitoring allows for an assessment of business activity of organizations to provide information for credit and financial institutions, investment organizations, and enterprises involved in the construction of large complex objects.
Our service provides analytics on the business activity of companies, which can be used for:

• Determining lending rates, insurance premiums, and investment risks in scoring models of banks, insurance, and investment companies.
• Objective and timely evaluations of the activities of economic entities.
• Accelerating and simplifying the work of credit institutions when dealing with land assets, commercial and residential real estate.
• Control of targeted use of allocated funds.
• Reducing operational risks and optimizing costs.
• Improving the quality of management decisions in the field of investment and lending.

Tasks that satellite imagery helps solve in agriculture:
Inventory, accounting, and land monitoring:

• Satellite imagery allows not only to create a visual map of land use, but also to identify unused or improperly used areas of agricultural land. Such analysis helps to plan agricultural work.

Crop monitoring

• Regular satellite imaging helps to make a qualitative assessment of crop emergence and maturity, and to detect diseases at an early stage. Based on the results of remote sensing data processing, maps of heterogeneity of crop conditions can be created, as well as recommendations for differentiated application of mineral and organic fertilizers.

Control of adverse processes

• The main risk in agriculture is natural disasters, such as droughts, floods, and pest invasions. History knows examples when such natural disasters led to terrible famine. Of course, we cannot compete with nature today, but we can be prepared for unforeseen circumstances and adjust irrigation and reclamation. Special sensors installed on satellites help to track all these processes.

Geospatial intelligence is the process of obtaining data on human activity through the use and analysis of images and geospatial information that describe, evaluate, and visually display physical objects and geographically referenced activities on Earth.

The data obtained in this way is information integrated into a coordinated spatial-temporal context that supports descriptions, explanations, or predictions of human activity, based on which decision-makers carry out their actions. From a process standpoint, the data is collected, processed, geospatially justified, and disseminated among decision-makers.

The main tasks of remote sensing methods in forestry include:

• Mapping of forest resources
• Detection, control, and monitoring of illegal logging
• Study and mapping of negative processes affecting forest ecosystems, such as pests and diseases, droughts or flooding, which can lead to degradation and loss of forests
• Study of natural conditions that hinder active forest management (such as flat swampy areas, drainage basins, steep terrain changes, etc.) using digital elevation models
• Providing forest management companies with information based on basic, regular, and operational satellite imagery, as well as actual, statistical, and field data available to the customer. All output materials obtained from automated processing and analysis can be presented in a networked geoinformation resource - a geospatial portal.

Отслеживание социальных явлений — составная часть стратегической и оперативно-стратегической разведки, представляющая из себя совокупность мер по получению, обработке и анализу информации о состоянии отдельных регионов, стран, городов, группировок войск, военных объектов, географических районов планеты, социальных групп и т. п. с использованием космических средств и связанных с ними наземных систем.

Среди основных функций можно выделить следующие:

• слежение за террористическими организациями
• слежение за социальными волнениями или протестами
• слежение за выполнением запрета на ядерные испытания
• обнаружение пусков ракет и передвижения войск
• фиксация миграции людей, в т. ч. беженцев

Анализ социальных явлений позволяет также отслеживать эпидемиологическую ситуацию. Так, например, было обнаружено увеличение трафика возле пяти больниц в китайском городе Ухань в период с августа по декабрь 2019 года. Наличие подобного рода данных позволяет держать эпидемиологическую обстановку на планете под контролем.

Satellites are an indispensable tool in tracking natural and climate-related changes that can trigger natural disasters.
Natural disasters typically include earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions. In some cases, they include forest and peat fires, as well as man-made disasters and accidents at oil, gas, and chemical facilities.

The ecological situation directly affects the quality and living conditions on the planet. Various environmental disasters and catastrophes can lead to irreversible consequences.
As a result of human activities, events such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the technological disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and the ecological crisis on the Kamchatka Peninsula have occurred. Less significant environmental incidents related to pollution occur regularly. For example, at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, there were reports of an oil spill near the city of Bodo in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Satellite images were used to monitor the situation. A December 2006 image was used as the basis for subsequent observations, which indicated a relatively minor impact of the petrochemical infrastructure in the region. However, images taken in January 2009 indicated a change in the situation: large areas of vegetation appeared dead. Satellite monitoring not only allows tracking of the situation but also helps develop a strategy for its resolution.
In addition, the ecological situation also affects the epidemiological situation in the world. Outbreaks of diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, and hepatitis can result from the consequences of floods. The rise in sea level, coupled with increasingly severe weather conditions, can make floods a common phenomenon for the entire planet. Satellite monitoring also helps track the situation with sea level rise and, as a result, predict floods and respond promptly to changes in the situation.

The use of medium or high-resolution satellite images can assist urban developers and land planners in controlling and maintaining decision-making for sustainable urban development in dense urban environments with changes that require high-resolution detail for strategic planning information related to urban planning and development.
These satellite image data provide detailed analysis for creating or updating GIS maps and detecting major changes in urban land cover and land use, allowing for frequent coverage and overlaying of different temporal sequences for classifying ecologically safe and sustainable areas for proposed development areas.
The rapid development and growth of urban areas puts increased pressure on the environment, including urban parks and green spaces. Green spaces, including street landscapes, lawns, public park zones, gardens, plantations, and forests, are necessary not only to give urban areas a pleasant appearance but also to ensure the quality of life of the population. Vegetation generates oxygen and reduces energy consumption in the environment.
The use of GIS data and satellite images for managing and monitoring green spaces is crucial for improving the urban environment and plays an important role in the lives around us.