STARLING

FOR COMPANIES COMMITTED TO NO DEFORESTATION.

Starling is an independent verification service for “no deforestation” policies, offered to companies engaged in setting up responsible supply chains.

A RELIABLE, UNBIASED SOLUTION

The world today faces many side effects of deforestation. With this effect, many companies around the world are now trying to produce, transform, and consume agricultural commodities that reduce footprints in deforestation. Here, the real challenge that companies face is to verify the results of their efforts independently. Starlings help these companies by supporting them to meet the promises set out in their respective forest conservation policies.

Micronet Solutions believes that the standards set for forest conservation policies often do not match with the challenges emerging in the sector. Moreover, the methods of expertise, based on the field inspection, anticipate neither responsiveness nor completeness. Airbus Defence and Space has begun the Starling service together with the Earthworm and StarVision. This technology uses higher-resolution optical and radar satellite imagery to cater to unbiased monitoring of change in forest cover.

As a part of facilitation to sustainability, Spot 6 and seven satellites capture images regularly. The purpose of capturing these images is to monitor the changes in various situations. Changes may be in the form of supply basins, expansion of areas, and so on. Together all this shall allow actors from various sectors to ensure proper application of conservation and sustainable development policies.

There are many companies to whom Starling interests. The technology and experience can help to acquire images quickly and process them. These images allow customers to improve reactivity. Consequently, it becomes possible to prevent the adverse impacts of the activities. At the same time, it encourages improvements in social and environmental performances.

Besides extending support to forest conservation, Airbus Defence and Space is using satellite imagery for agricultural applications. These applications help the farmers in managing their farming activities in a better way. Ultimately, these monitoring services for agriculture provide support in the development of productive agricultural practices that are sustainable too.

GO MONITOR

SURVEILLANCE ON DEMAND

Go Monitor aims to deliver products for reliable and timely surveillance. Besides having revisit capacities, its design suits best for professionals who require accurate and reliable terrain information. Irrespective of the inaccessibility of a site, Go monitor ensures timely and regular imagery. Independent of the weather conditions, it shall deliver any change in information. Thus, enabling the users to monitor and understand the environment for their daily operations. The report shall be useful for day-to-day business operations, assets, impact on the natural habitat, security, emergency, and strategic surveillance.

KEY BENEFITS

Go Monitor validates the access to the broadest optical and radar satellite constellation. Therefore, it becomes easier to avail of the benefits. Besides relying on the team of application experts such as geologists, Micronet Solutions guarantees the following benefits:

  • It is possible to cover any area around the globe regularly and then revisit it.
  • There is a customer care team that takes care of every project and its specificities.
  • There are pre-selected sites that are available off-the-shelf.
  • Timely coverage enables timely alerts that are useful for rapid action in times of emergency. Thus, saving time and money.
  • One can register online as it is fast, simple, and accessible.
  • Ortho-Rectification using Digital Elevation Model ( DEM ).
  • There is secure 24 x 7 online access to unique optical and radar constellation.

MARITIME SURVEILLANCE

More than 90 percent of the global goods trade occurs through seas. More than 70 percent of transportation of global crude oil occurs through seas. In simple words, the shipping traffic is rising at an increasing rate. With this, their arrises a tremendous pressure on the world’s oceans and its security. Besides more likelihood of accidents, there are dangers relating to environmental damage threat of piracy, crime, and terror. Facts reveal that illegal maritime activities like illegal fishing, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, and weapon movement are continually rising. Maritime surveillance is vital domain to ensure an appropriate response towards any situation developing relatively to marine safety and security. Therefore, by all available means, active surveillance is forewarned and forearmed. At present, monitoring takes place through surface and air platforms. However, the pressure from illegal activities occurring in the international and national waters leads to a higher demand for reactive imagery.

DEPENDABLE MONITORING

Airbus Defence and Space uses the constellation combining the radar and optical satellites to provide comprehensive monitoring services. These services enable an efficient answer for all maritime threats by building a meaningful solution for subtle detailing, wide-coverage, intensive monitoring, premium reactivity, and positive interpretation response.

Airbus Defence and Space can activate and combine appropriate satellites if:

  • It detects more ships: It is possible to notice the weather conditions through the radar. Moreover, the optical sensors detect smaller, wooden, and fiber boats quickly.
  • It witnesses a wider theater: There is substantial daily collection through the SPOT 6/7 and TerraSAR-X. The wider acquisition modes allow multisensory tasking strategy that helps to use available collection capacity viably.
  • It visits more frequently: Different satellites pass along the day. In maritime surveillance service India, it is crucial to enable a situation where there is understanding several times in a day by leveraging all sensors. Further, this includes even the intra-daily revisits.
MONITORING SERVICES

Micronet Solutions provides reliable services supporting maritime safety. Additionally, it is possible to provide factual information by using unique access to optical and SAR satellite imagery. The maritime monitoring services support shipping and insurance companies, national and private security forces, oil, gas, and mining organizations, as well as the environmental protection agencies. It is thus ensuring the safety and efficiency of maritime activities globally.

RELIABLE SERVICES SUPPORTING MARITIME SAFETY

Airbus Defence and Space supports shipping and insurance companies, OGM firms, National Authorities private security forces and environmental protection agencies with timely and accurate information to ensure the safety and efficiency of maritime activities around the globe.

STACK INSIGHT

A NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY REMOTE VOLUME CALCULATION AND SURVEYING TOOL

Stack Insight aims to make volume calculations easier, cheaper, and more precise. At present, it is the latest satellite-based change detection and volume calculation service available in the market. It is thereby eliminating much of the cost as well as the risk that emerge with ground surveying. Over the years, the comparison of the accuracy of LIDAR against the Stack Insight for volume calculation reveals the worst error-rate as less than 2 percent. Altogether, Stack Insight is a highly accurate monitoring tool in comparison with the traditional ground and land surveying techniques. Stack insights is helps in providing space monitoring services and its mining monitoring system which allows us to provide mining monitoring service India.

CHANGE DETECTION

Micronet Solutions aims to develop applications for mining and civil engineering purposes. These services are useful for remote volume calculation and surveying tool of mined material. Additionally, it is also helpful in assessing changing volumes. Stack Insight utilizes Airbus Defence and Space’s high-resolution imagery products through its optical Pleiades constellation. Equally important is the high flexibility and the daily revisit capabilities of any area around the globe suitable for change detection.

VOLUMETRIC CHANGES

Micronet Solutions uses satellite-based solutions to provide a highly cost-effective route. Likewise, there are benefits from daily revisit capacities and fast acquisition irrespective of the location of the mine. We give accurate information through our Mining monitoring service India.

SURFACE MOVEMENT MONITORING

Micronet Solutions provides Surface Movement Monitoring (SMM) with millimeter precision as well as a high resolution from the space. Furthermore, the service aims to support and ensure security and effective performance in projects and activities. The input data from radar satellites provides individual baseline studies and long term monitoring requests. We are providing the best solution for surface movement monitoring service India.

Airbus Defence and Space can activate and combine appropriate satellites if:

  • It detects more ships: It is possible to notice the weather conditions through the radar. Moreover, the optical sensors detect smaller, wooden, and fiber boats quickly.
  • It witnesses a wider theater: There is substantial daily collection through the SPOT 6/7 and TerraSAR-X. The wider acquisition modes allow multisensory tasking strategy that helps to use available collection capacity viably.
  • It visits more frequently: Different satellites pass along the day. In maritime surveillance service India, it is crucial to enable a situation where there is understanding several times in a day by leveraging all sensors. Further, this includes even the intra-daily revisits.
MONITORING SERVICES

Micronet Solutions provides reliable services supporting maritime safety. Additionally, it is possible to provide factual information by using unique access to optical and SAR satellite imagery. The maritime monitoring services support shipping and insurance companies, national and private security forces, oil, gas, and mining organizations, as well as the environmental protection agencies. It is thus ensuring the safety and efficiency of maritime activities globally.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS
  • Precise Information: The information that one gets is precise as one can detect the height of each stack on the image. Moreover, the change detection in the mine is precisely such that it is possible to detect a change in volume since its last visit.
  • Savings: In general, there is a considerable cost involved in land surveys. Stack Insight helps to moderate these cost cuts, maximize and rationalize volumes.
  • Accuracy: The information is accurate and very useful. The first study results reveal that the satellite-based monitoring error rate is less than 2 percent. The best error rate with the land surveyors is 5 percent.
  • Safety: Since mine operates in remote and dangerous areas, sending people for field surveys is often risky and life-threatening. This monitoring service avoids the need to send people on the ground for field surveys.

GLOBAL SEEPS

GLOBAL SEEPS SERVICES

Oil slick information is crucial for all oil exploration companies. This information helps to detect and monitor natural seepage and oil pollution on the surface of the ocean. The non-exclusive database of the offshore oil slicks is known as the global seeps, global seeps service India. The systematic screening of the world’s offshore basins reveals this data.

Global seeps data is a cost-effective resource that is useful in risk-ranking before beginning any new exploration. Besides, it is also essential for baseline oil pollution mapping. Global seeps cover approximately 60 million km2 of the offshore basins worldwide. This database always remains under overhauling. As a part of the rolling program, screening of new areas takes place. At the same time, there is overhauling of the existing spaces. Programming of new acquisition occurs according to the user request.

KEY BENEFITS

Archive and newly programmed satellite imagery are useful to define Global seeps. This database is definitive off-the-shell offshore oil slick detection database for the worldwide exploration industry.

  • Accuracy: Since it is crucial to capture all the slicks, high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is beneficial here.
  • Slick characterization: It is useful to identify the natural seepage and human-made sources of pollution.
  • Scalable and future proof: With overhauling, information regarding new data and new areas becomes more useful.
  • Availability: GIS-ready results become readily deliverable directly to the customers.

Airbus Defence and Space hosts the dataset. This hosting of dataset makes the database available to multiple users across an organization using secure web access.

KEY APPLICATIONS

The key applications are:

  • Risk ranking before any new exploration is one of the primary application of global seeps.
  • Further, it acts as a tool to link geological interpretation from offshore to onshore.
  • It helps to plan surface geochemical programs, seismic planning, and integration.
  • Besides the screening of frontier basins, it is also useful in obtaining spatial characteristics of an oil slick in areas where existing production is going on.
  • Lastly, it is capable of environmental monitoring through environmental risk assessment, full environmental baseline, or impact statement.

Global Seeps screening uses satellite data acquired over the ocean to detect any oil slicks that may be present on the sea surface. The imagery is interpreted to identify slicks which may be sourced from natural seepage from hydrocarbon reserves.

FARMSTAR

FARMSTAR SERVICES, AN ADVISORY PANEL FOR CONTROLLING CROPS AND OPTIMISING YIELDS.
EXPERTISE DEVELOPED WITH ARVALIS AND TERRESINOVIA.

The world leader in geospatial information, Airbus Defence and Space provides their valuable experience to simplify agricultural operations. The farmstar services is an operating campaign that focuses primarily on the actions of the production chain. The production chain begins with image acquisition, followed by data processing, development of biophysical parameters, and lastly relevance as well as validation of advice. Finally, the subscribers receive information.

This decision support tool for agriculture has been providing its service since the past 15 years. Moreover, it is helping the farmers who are keen to optimize their yields and improvise the crop quality by nurturing them nicely and respecting the environment. The FARMSTAR services provides a complete range of advice by combining satellite images from our constellation with agronomical expertise.

FARMSTAR SERVICES BENEFITS

Real Decision Making Aid: The farming cooperatives send the farmer operators up-to-date data regarding the crops. The information is useful to determine the exact dosage of the products that plants may need. Using the correct dosage not only means saving money, but also being more environmentally responsible.

Sustainability: At several occasions, the United Nations has warned that nitrous oxide emissions from the use of nitrogen fertilizers can double by 2050. Thereby, there is an emerging need to minimize the loss of nitrogen in the environment occurring during crop cultivation. Moreover, it avoids farmers to take unnecessary tractor rides to reduce diesel consumption. Overall, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Gleaning data: Airbus Defence and Space uses its satellite fleet to study and integrate all useful sensors. Sensors from Pleiades 1 and 2, TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X, NigeriaSat-X, UK-DMC-2, DEIMOS-1, Spot 6 and 7, Sentinel 2A, and Sentinal SB are useful. These satellites also provide data for other environmental concerns such as oil slick detection. This data generates only the highest quality advice that may be useful for leading insurance actors in developing products to cover weather perils. The primary objective here is to identify as well as quantify the production loss to compute accurate compensation for crop shortfalls.

BROADENING THE HORIZONS

Since 2015, Airbus Defence and Space began to explore the potentials from the sensors data that is onboard UAVs. This addition of UAV data can further lead to the optimization of crop diagnostics. Therefore, there is top-quality benefits delivery to the farmers.

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