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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
15 December 2017 Time flies and another year comes to an end. This blog summarises and highlights what we have achieved during 2017. Our vision has been to create innovative location-centric applications using Geospatial Big Data Analytics, Global Earth Observation and Cloud Computing. Location intelligence is becoming ubiquitous and increasingly important for a wide range of [...]