On the evening of Wednesday 7 December 2022, a massive leak was detected on the north-eastern Kansas stretch (Phase 2) of the Keystone pipeline, spilling more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil into the surrounding environment. At nearly 600,000 gallons, it’s one of the largest leaks to occur in the US in nearly a decade …
Analysing ground changes surrounding the largest oil pipeline leak since 2010 Read More »
At its height, the Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Quebec, produced half of the world’s asbestos. It was the largest open pit asbestos mine on the planet, driving much of Canada’s growth to the largest world asbestos producer in an industry totaling $1.2billion a year at its peak. Opened in 1879, it ran for 122 …
On Monday 7 November 2022, a significant 150m wide breach impacted the eastern wall of the tailings storage facility at the Williamson diamond mine in Tanzania. Extensive flooding was recorded flowing away from the open pit and into certain areas outside of the main lease area, with a portion of tailings known to have …
Mine Shift: The Williamson Diamond Mine In Tanzania. Read More »
In 2022, CATALYST and Microsoft announced an exciting new collaboration. One that would see more scientists, researchers, and decisions makers around the world get access to earth observation data than ever before. This is the story of that how it came to be and the impact it is having around the world. Download The PDF
When authorities in Quebec were alerted to the significant risk of landslides in the La Baie area, they immediately set in motion measures to protect lives, property and infrastructure. The problem was, the warnings were only weeks in advance, and so they were left only with impact reduction options rather than prevention. But what if …
Providing landslide early warning data in La Baie using CATALYST InSAR. Read More »
This is the story of how Microsoft and CATALYST changed the way scientists, researchers and decision makers around the world could access earth data visualisation and analysis. It was achieved through a truly collaborative approach in which global multi-temporal Sentinel-1 layers with RTC would be made available through the Microsoft Planetary Computer. Find out how we did …
Looking to modernize delivery of high quality imagery faster, KSAT found their solution with CATALYST. Developing a brand new, custom ortho-mosaicking workflow, with pan-sharpening capabilities – CATALYST was able to quickly deliver an efficient solution. Download The PDF The Challenge: Manage demand variability for multiple satellite sensors Improve turn around times Low latency and high …
KSAT advances to sensor agnostic automated services to support multi-mission projects Read More »
PG Ventures, the digital innovation arm of TSR Poland, discovered the powers of CATALYST’s ground displacement data when exploring solutions to address issues related to abandoned mines. What followed was a collaboration – made possible through AWS Data Exchange – in which expertise, tools, opportunity, and inspiration all came together to develop a way to …
Canada’s Pollutant Inventories and Reporting Division (PIRD), a division of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), faces the massive task of creating a greenhouse gas inventory for the entire nation. A key part of this analysis is the use of remotely sensed data to quantify areas of land-use change to calculate CO2. In this pursuit, …
Canada Applies Open Data Cube to Assess National Land-use Change Read More »
EOfactory scales up to provide geospatial users nearly limitless image processing capabilities using CATALYST Microservices Platform. Complete Form To Access PDF Download PDF Results: A nation-wide orthorectification of 10,000 images that now takes three days will be finished in five minutes with CATALYST Microservices, and it opens up the possibility to deliver not only national …
EOfactory Scales Up Earth Image Processing on the Cloud. Read More »
