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White Papers
Monitoring Ground Movement Risk with State-of-the-art InSAR
Overview Uplift and subsidence are ground displacements that can put dangerous strain on critical infrastructure, such as pipelines, buildings, dams, and roadways. To facilitate affordable,
Target Scattering Decomposition
The Kennaugh–Huynen scattering matrix condiagonalization is projected into the Pauli basis to derive a new scattering vector model for the representation of coherent target scattering.
SAR Orthorectification and Mosaicking
The data in this mosaic covers a wide range of sea states and wind speeds which accounts for the variation of the backscattering from the
Change Detection using SAR Data
The ability to identify and measure significant changes in target scattering and/or polarimetric parameters at known and co-located image locations provides a very powerful tool
Improving Airphoto Processing with Automated Functions
The need for airphoto processing in resource, security, planning and other applications is continually increasing. How can these demands be met? Large scale projects require
Wetland Characterization
Wetlands play a key role in regional and global environments and are critically linked to major issues such as climate change, water quality, the hydrological
Improving Airphoto Processing with Automated Functions
The need for airphoto processing in resource, security, planning and other applications is continually increasing. How can these demands be met? Large scale projects require
Empirical line model for the atmospheric correction of sentinel-2A MSI images in the Caribbean Islands
An Empirical Line Model (ELM) was tested to correct Sentinel-2A (MSI) images acquired in the tropical archipelago of San Andrés, Colombia. This approach uses a
Semi-Automated Historical Airphoto Processing
Geometric Correction of historical imagery is a complicated, time consuming and expensive operation. Due to a lack of development related to streamlining these operations, a
CATALYST Enterprise Pansharp Test Results
After demonstrating the exceptional performance improvement in the orthorectification module (approximately fourteen-fold – see CATALYST Enterprise Ortho Performance Whitepaper), the same approach has been applied
CATALYST Enterprise Ortho Performance Test Results
CATALYST has developed new, high-speed, orthorectification functions. The code takes advantage of modern, multi-core processor architecture, as well as NVIDIA’s Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), to
On Demand Satellite Image Processing
New computational environments are emerging – cloud computing which promises to provide vast computational resources on demand. Many corporations are moving to such environments to
CATALYST Enterprise – AutoDEM Process Overview and Performance
This report details the performance of the new DEM extraction application for the CATALYST Enterprise system. The main logic of the application is based on
Accurate, Detailed Elevation Models
This article describes how high resolution satellite data can be used to extract accurate digital elevation model (DEM) for a mining application in the Amazon
Articles
Wetland shoreline recession in the Mississippi River Delta from petroleum oiling and cyclonic storms
By: Amina Rangoonwala1 , Cathleen E. Jones2 , and Elijah Ramsey III1 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, 2 Jet
Case Studies
Analysing ground changes surrounding the largest oil pipeline leak since 2010
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
The Jeffrey Asbestos Mine, Quebec
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
Mine Shift: The Williamson Diamond Mine In Tanzania.
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
CATALYST Simplifies Access to Science Ready SAR Data on Microsoft’s Planetary Computer
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
Providing landslide early warning data in La Baie using CATALYST InSAR.
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
How a new Microsoft & CATALYST collaboration is changing the way earth data is accessed around the world.
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
KSAT advances to sensor agnostic automated services to support multi-mission projects
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
PG Ventures Harnesses CATALYST Data Through AWS Data Exchange to Build Innovative Environmental Monitoring Tool
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
Canada Applies Open Data Cube to Assess National Land-use Change
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
EOfactory Scales Up Earth Image Processing on the Cloud.
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
How a leading space agency is preparing for the future of image analytics.
What is our country’s estimated crop yield this year? How much food will we need to import? Will we have enough water for our nation’s
Object Analyst Feasibility Study on Per Parcel Stormwater Taxation
CATALYST has a full set of object-based image analysis (OBIA) tools that can be used to quickly and accurately extract impermeable land area on a
ILLICIT CROP MONITORING
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) operates several projects that provide detection data to governments where illicit crops are grown including Colombia,
Introducing Remotely Sensed Data to Lower Costs and Increase Efficiency in Agricultural Management.
To identify stressed vegetation in the most cost-effective way possible, high-resolution satellite data can be purchased in areas covering the fi elds in question. Five-meter
University of Calgary Monitors Arctic Sea Ice with CATALYST Professional Radar Suite
Sea ice can be difficult to study because of the remote and hazardous locations in which is exists. Remotely sensed SAR data is one half of
