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 04, 2020

New Web App: Mapping Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in NSW by Postcode and LGA

2020-11-27T23:17:39+11:00April 11th, 2020|Apps, Australia, Census, Cloud Computing, Emergency, Exposure, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Location Intelligence, Major Events, Risk|

11 April 2020 Strongly motivated by the recent release of more detailed COVID-19 data by the New South Wales (NSW) Government, we have developed a new web app that maps the daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sydney and NSW by Postcode and Local Government Area (LGA). Please note that so far the [...]

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 [...]

22 02, 2019

The February 2019 Tropical Cyclone Oma, Australia

2021-04-16T15:03:29+10:00February 22nd, 2019|Apps, Asset Management, Australia, Earth Observation, Emergency, Exposure, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Major Events, Risk, Tropical Cyclone|

22 February 2019 It's good news that tropical cyclone Oma has weakened and remains offshore. Here we perform some quick analysis using the web APIs & Apps recently developed, and share results with the public (see Twitter posts below). 1. Overview of Current Exposure Why are we so concerned about this event? [...]

11 02, 2019

Some Exposure Analysis in Relation to the February 2019 Flooding in West & North-West Queensland

2020-12-11T15:03:34+11:00February 11th, 2019|Apps, Asset Management, Australia, Earth Observation, Emergency, Exposure, Flood, Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Image Analysis, Insurance, Location Intelligence, Major Events, Property Information, Risk|

11 February 2019 We have been active in reporting and sharing information about the major flooding in Queensland (link to Twitter posts and mass media mentions, e.g. CNN and The Guardian). This brief blog is specific to the flooding in West and North-West Queensland. First, the big picture. We use NASA’s Terra/MODIS imagery (2019-01-02 vs. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

21 09, 2018

Assessing the Impact of the September 2018 Hurricane Florence

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

21 September 2018 Hurricane Florence made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina at 7:15 AM on Friday (14 September 2018) as a Category 1 hurricane. This blog summarises some of our existing information products and new analytics that can be used to help assess the impact of this major event. 1. Location [...]

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