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, [...]

24 11, 2020

Mapping Major Bushfires in Australia using Near Real-time Himawari-8 Satellite Imagery

2022-08-08T08:15:39+10:00November 24th, 2020|AI, APIs, Apps, Asset Management, Australia, Bushfire, Climate Change, Cloud Computing, Earth Observation, Emergency, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Location Intelligence, Major Events, Risk|

Acknowledgements: This project is made possible thanks to the availability of Himawari-8 satellite imagery from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA, link) and its open access provided by AWS (link). Mapping bushfires using Earth observation (EO) imagery has been a very active research and application field. With a strong determination to [...]

24 11, 2020

Detecting Bushfire Hotspots from Himawari-8 Imagery: With Four Examples from the 2019-20 Australian Bushfire Season

2021-01-11T22:18:53+11:00November 24th, 2020|AI, APIs, Apps, Asset Management, Australia, Bushfire, Climate Change, Cloud Computing, Earth Observation, Emergency, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Location Intelligence, Major Events, News Media, Risk, Sentinel-2|

The new generation of geostationary meteorological satellites, such as Himawari-8 from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA, link), offer much improved capabilities of monitoring large-scale weather events in the atmosphere and phenomena on the Earth's surface. Himawari-8 sensors (Advanced Himawari Imagers - AHIs) are equipped with 16 spectral bands: 3 visible bands at 0.5 [...]

11 08, 2020

Monitoring Land Cover Changes at the Bushland-Urban Interface: An Image Analysis Approach

2020-12-11T12:13:19+11:00August 11th, 2020|AI, Australia, Bushfire, Climate Change, Cloud Computing, Earth Observation, Emergency, Exposure, Geocoding, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Land parcel, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, Sentinel-2|

It has been well observed, modelled and reported that bushfire risk is on the rise under a rapidly warming climate. Earth observation, remote sensing and image analysis are among the most important technologies to manage bushfires nowadays - from disaster prevention to preparedness, from hotspots detection to movement monitoring, from response to recovery, [...]

1 07, 2020

Building-level Geocoding of G-NAF (Address Database) for Improved Flood & Bushfire Risk Analysis in Australia

2021-02-25T10:50:24+11:00July 1st, 2020|AI, Bushfire, Cloud Computing, Earth Observation, Exposure, Flood, Geocoding, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Land parcel, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk|

It is well known that exposure location is a major source of uncertainties in either site-level or aggregate risk analysis. Back in 2016, we released a product called Geocoding DoubleCheck (link) to address the location accuracy of parcel-level geocoding. Then we compared the difference between parcel-level and building-level geocoding (Figure 1), and stressed [...]

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 [...]

11 03, 2020

Top 10 Blogs of the Past Two Years from BigData Earth

2020-10-03T00:48:53+10:00March 11th, 2020|APIs, Apps, Australia, Bushfire, Cloud Computing, Emergency, Exposure, Flood, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, Tropical Cyclone, USA|

11 March 2020 Exactly four years ago, we started blogging what we have been exploring and creating in geospatial big data analytics, cloud computing, property location metrics, hazard and risk modelling, etc. So far, more than 50 blogs have been produced. Here we select and share top 10 blogs from the past [...]

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 [...]

2 10, 2018

Advancing Bushfire Risk Analytics with Location Profile APIs: Showcases

2021-01-10T13:37:21+11:00October 2nd, 2018|APIs, Australia, Bushfire, Elevation, Emergency, Exposure, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Property Information, Risk, USA|

2 October 2018 Bushfire (wildfire or forest fire) risk assessment has been a very common topic in research and practice. Many risk analysis projects, such as identifying likely causes of fire occurrences, mapping fire-prone areas and assessing Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) for buildings, are in place to assist the whole process of bushfire risk [...]

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