29 01, 2021

Data & Analytics Services in Response to Major Events: New Case Studies

2021-01-30T11:17:42+11:00January 29th, 2021|APIs, Asia, Australia, Bushfire, Earth Observation, Emergency, Exposure, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Location Intelligence, Major Events, News Media, Risk, Tropical Cyclone, USA|

We offer data & analytics services to aid rapid response to major events, such as disasters and emergencies. In this blog, we showcase our efforts in response to a number of major events in Australia during the summer week of 20-26 January 2021. A range of information products related to a tropical low, [...]

2 04, 2020

Unique Software Spectral Discovery to Easily and Rapidly Process Sentinel-2 Imagery

2021-01-13T18:26:09+11:00April 2nd, 2020|Agriculture, Asia, Australia, Bushfire, Earth Observation, Emergency, Image Analysis, Major Events, News Media, Risk, Sentinel-2, USA, Wildfire|

2 April 2020 Sentinel-2 (with twin satellites Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B) is one of the most successful Earth observation missions from the EU Copernicus Programme and ESA. Sentinel-2 satellite imagery features: wide swath (290km) multiple spectral bands (13 bands) high resolution (four visible and near-infrared bands at 10m, six red-edge/shortwave-infrared bands at 20m, and three [...]

12 08, 2019

New R&D in Property Location and Hazard Risk Analytics: A Transformative Journey from Desktop Computing to Cloud Computing

2021-03-08T14:10:46+11:00August 12th, 2019|APIs, Apps, Asia, Australia, Emergency, Exposure, Flood, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, USA|

12 August 2019 Over the past four years we have been undertaking significant new R&D in property location and hazard risk analytics with cloud computing. In particular, we have developed an organic set of products based on three new technologies (Web APIs, Web Apps and Web Maps) to support two cloud-based geospatial [...]

28 01, 2019

Releasing a New Web Mapping, Analysis and Reporting App on Exposure Management

2020-10-03T00:49:11+10:00January 28th, 2019|APIs, Apps, Asia, Asset Management, Australia, Bushfire, Emergency, Exposure, Flood, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Major Events, Property Information, Risk, USA|

28 January 2019 Over the past few years we have been building cloud-based big data and analytics platforms and foundational Location Profile APIs for property location and hazard risk information. These advances have enabled us to speed up the pace of new product development. Now we are pleased to release a new web [...]

12 12, 2018

Reducing Uncertainties in Catastrophe Loss Modelling: New Advances

2021-01-13T13:08:02+11:00December 12th, 2018|APIs, Asia, Australia, Bushfire, Earth Observation, Exposure, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Hurricane, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, Tropical Cyclone, USA|

12 December 2018 This is our 2018 end-of-year review article. Catastrophe loss modelling, as a special type of environmental modelling, has been around for three decades. It captures all essential components of the classic risk equation, i.e. Risk = f (Hazard, Exposure, Vulnerability), and quantifies the likely economic or insured losses arising [...]

22 10, 2018

Advancing Tropical Cyclone Risk Analytics with Location Profile APIs

2021-03-08T14:08:28+11:00October 22nd, 2018|APIs, Asia, Australia, Emergency, Exposure, Hurricane, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Risk, Tropical Cyclone, Typhoon, USA|

22 October 2018 This project is focused on the analysis of historical tropical cyclones (also known as hurricanes or typhoons) and related wind records, including track positions, wind speed and central pressure. We have developed an automated process of carrying out such analyses on the cloud and enabled by web APIs. A straightforward [...]

25 09, 2018

Advancing Flood Risk Analytics with Location Profile APIs: Showcases

2021-01-13T12:19:35+11:00September 25th, 2018|APIs, Asia, Australia, Elevation, Emergency, Exposure, Flood, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, USA|

25 September 2018 For flood risk assessment, one may develop flood hazard maps directly or just use existing maps which are often associated with modelled hazard return periods. The quality of each flood map is up to a range of factors, such as the quality of elevation and rainfall inputs, modelling methods, and [...]

21 09, 2018

The September 2018 Super Typhoon Mangkhut: Some Rapid Risk Analyses

2020-10-03T00:49:17+10:00September 21st, 2018|APIs, Asia, Earth Observation, Exposure, Flood, Hurricane, Image Analysis, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Major Events, Tropical Cyclone, Typhoon|

21 September 2018 Super Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall in Guangdong Province, China around 5 PM Sunday (16 September 2018) as a Category 2 hurricane (in Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale). This blog summarises a number of rapid analyses we performed and some of our existing information products that can be used to help assess the [...]

31 08, 2018

Monitoring Major Events with Global Earth Observation and Geospatial Big Data Analytics: 10+ New Examples

2020-10-03T00:49:18+10:00August 31st, 2018|Asia, Australia, Bushfire, Earth Observation, Emergency, Image Analysis, Major Events, News Media, Risk, Sentinel-2, USA, Wildfire|

31 August 2018 This blog summarises some of our latest activities of monitoring, modelling and mapping major hazardous events with Earth observation and geospatial big data analytics, the two methods that are increasingly important and indispensable for a wide range of environmental studies. We routinely apply our own advanced image analysis software (Spectral Discovery) [...]

31 08, 2018

Location Profile APIs Out of Beta

2020-10-03T00:49:20+10:00August 31st, 2018|APIs, Asia, Asset Management, Exposure, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Real Estate, Risk|

31 August 2018 We are pleased to release property/exposure Location Profile APIs (Version 2.0), out of beta! (Link to an initial release and introduction is here.) More than ten APIs are currently available for property location and hazard risk intelligence. Main applications: Property location information, emergency planning and response, insurance underwriting and claims, news media [...]

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