From monitoring quarries to understanding oil storage – satellite data has a wide range of uses
Satellite data provides a huge range of benefits to the energy and mining industries, helping to plan, monitor and predict activities.
Satellite data help in planning major projects: Understanding land use, supply routes, logistics, terrain, elevation and biodiversity before any extraction begins
Monitoring
Sites and plants around the world can be monitored to provide data on a wide range of areas including:
- Activities level at quarries and storage – including the changing depth of quarries
- Tracking ships – Even when ships AIS is turned off
- Movements in structures – looking for risks to structures .
- Activity at drilling sites – detecting movement and production
- Volume of stored materials – metals at depots and oil storage
- Shifts in ground – with millimetre accuracy. E.g when oil is extracted this movement can be detected.
- ESG – monitoring for emissions, pollution, water use
Predicting
Satellite data, together with terrestrial data can help predict changes in supply and demand. From understanding the supply through the production of materials to the demand based on the level of activities of populations and industries.
Energy and Mining
Related Articles
Below are articles about how remote sensing – satellites, drones – are being used to support different industries
CASE STUDY
Case Study: Soft Commodities
A client needed to understand the expected crops across millions of hectares - but there was no reliable data available. HSAT worked the client to produce a bespoke solution to monitor the region for the total area of crops planted, and the growth of the crops throughout the year.
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Case Study: Ports and Logistics
A client needed to understand the logistics and activities around ports - given the scale of the individual ports and their diverse locations around the world, it wasn't possible to manual check these. HSAT built a solution to monitor these locations and track the key movements, providing alerts when required.
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ESG Data Gap and Satellites
There are significant challenges to quantifying ESG, to know how a company is performing in this area - this is the "ESG data gap". Satelite data can help close the gap.
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