Practice 04 — Geospatial

Ground truth that survives audit and handover.

Satellite earth observation and GIS, delivered so planners, operators, and regulators look at the same evidence. Repeatable pipelines. Documented lineage. Standards-native from the first tile.

Change detection, in continuous sweep.

Representative slice of the operational monitoring surface. Customer tenants carry full STAC catalog, model provenance, and ground-truth correlation on every event.

SCENE · SENTINEL-2 L2A · CHANGE DETECTION
sweep · 6s
EVT-44AEVT-44BEVT-45EVT-46EVT-47
TILE / 45UTU 2026-05-15
RESOLUTION / 10m GSD
CLOUD COVER / 4.2%
EVENTS / 5 ACTIVE
STATE / LIVE SWEEP

Seven delivery areas.
One operating standard.

Each area is industry-standard, but the discipline is ours: documented, auditable, repeatable. We do not deliver a tile that cannot be traced to its provenance.

AREA / 01

Earth Observation

Commercial and open-data constellation selection, tasking, budget management. Optical, SAR, multispectral. Cloud masking, atmospheric correction, temporal compositing.

  • Constellation tasking · Sentinel · Planet · Maxar · Capella
  • Change detection & alerting on unauthorised land use
AREA / 02

Aerial & Drone

Flight planning with GCPs and accuracy budgets. Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM outputs. Inspection routes for utilities, towers, renewables, and construction progress.

  • Sub-centimetre photogrammetry where it matters
  • Asset-condition tracking with documented accuracy
AREA / 03

GIS & Web Mapping

ArcGIS Enterprise, QGIS, PostGIS — versioned and branch-aware. MapLibre, Mapbox, Cesium for 2D and 3D web maps. Vector-tile pipelines and accessible cartography.

  • Geocoding workflows with international format support
  • Colour-vision accessibility built into style decisions
AREA / 04

Spatial Analysis

Terrain derivatives — slope, aspect, hydrology, viewshed, roughness. Land-cover classification with accuracy assessment. Network analysis for routing, service areas, siting.

  • Geostatistical interpolation with uncertainty communicated
  • Heat-map generation grounded in real ground truth
AREA / 05

Reference Data

National address gazetteers, deduplication and conflation, postal & POI datasets with licensing compliance. Geofences, service boundaries, administrative boundaries with maintenance cycles.

  • Address validation, hygiene, batch deduplication
  • Boundary cadence aligned to your operational tempo
AREA / 06

IoT & Operational Fusion

MQTT sensor time-series ingestion, edge buffering, backhaul-cost awareness. Fleet and asset tracking with geofenced alerts. Lightweight digital-twin integration with GIS and BIM.

  • Maintenance trigger automation tied to fleet position
  • Digital twin where the investment is actually justified
AREA / 07

Data & Catalogues

STAC catalogs, COG pipelines, COG-friendly tile pyramids on object storage. OGC services (WMS, WFS, WMTS). Vector tiles. Metadata, lineage, quality SLAs for internal teams that depend on imagery.

  • Security classification & access controls on sensitive layers
  • Audit logs for every read of restricted scenes

Standards-native. Vendor-neutral. Defensible.

We pick stack to fit your operation — not to entrench ours. Open standards are the floor. Proprietary tools sit on top only where they earn their place.

Catalog
STAC 1.0+ with extensions for SAR, EO, scientific. Searchable by space, time, sensor, processing level.
Raster
Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF (COG) as the primary raster carrier. Tile pyramids generated on ingest. Range-request friendly.
Vector
GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, vector tiles (MVT). PostGIS for transactional editing. Versioned branches where workflow requires.
Services
OGC WMS · WFS · WMTS · API-Features · API-Tiles. ArcGIS Image Server patterns where the customer is already invested.
Compute
Dask, xarray, Sentinel Hub processing, openEO. GPU-accelerated where SAR or deep-learning inference demands it.
Visualisation
MapLibre, Cesium, deck.gl. Server-side rendering for sensitive data. Print-grade cartographic output for regulatory submissions.
Security
Per-scene classification labels. Row-level access policies. Audit log on every read of restricted assets. Data sovereignty by deployment.

Use cases that move operational decisions, not slides.

ENERGY · UTILITIES

Asset integrity and encroachment

Powerline, pipeline, and rail corridor monitoring. Vegetation encroachment alerts. Asset-condition tracking from drone and satellite, fused with field telemetry.

AGRICULTURE

Yield, water, supply chain

Crop classification, water-stress detection, harvest readiness. Supply-chain traceability from field to processor, anchored to verifiable satellite evidence.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Construction progress & verification

Weekly drone surveys with documented accuracy budgets. Progress vs. plan, automatic. Earthworks volumetrics for milestone billing.

GOVERNMENT

Land use, planning, compliance

Unauthorised land-use detection at national scale. Planning permission verification. Disaster-response common operating picture, ready in hours.

INSURANCE · RISK

Portfolio exposure & claims

Geocoded exposure modelling. Post-event damage assessment. Fraud detection through pre-event imagery. Defensible to reinsurance partners.

DEFENCE · SECURITY

Sovereign monitoring & ISR support

Air-gapped deployment available. Multi-source fusion. Chain-of-custody preserved from ingest to product. Sovereign data residency built in.

Engage

Show us a hectare. We will show you the system.

Pilot scope agreed in one call. First operational output in 30 days. Standards-native, vendor-neutral, defensible from the first tile.

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