A NEW PERSPECTIVE INTO OUR CHANGING WORLD
MISSION.
Our mission is to generate affordable, recurrent, high-resolution thermal imagery of the planet to provide a new perspective of Earth’s changing resources. By combining our own thermal imagery captured from space and other data sources, we improve our customer’s decision-making processes toward a sustainable future.
TECHNOLOGY.
IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH
Aistech Space combines its expertise in geospatial analysis with its own constellation of small satellites and supporting infrastructure to provide solutions that help clients understand and monitor their assets. We leverage our strategic space capabilities (remote bidirectional communications, air traffic monitoring, and thermal infrared remote sensing) to help our customers make better, data-driven decisions. We have developed a first-in-kind commercial high-resolution (HR) thermal infrared (TIR) telescope for small satellites, which will be capable of monitoring large areas, reducing costs, and offering solutions for organizations around the world.
First global company to develop a high-resolution thermal space telescope for small satellites.
First European company (and third Worldwide) to deploy a space-based air traffic monitoring system.
One of the nine Worldwide companies with 2 or more operative small satellite in orbit.
First Spanish company with a commercial small satellite constellation in orbit.
First Spanish company to deploy and operate an IoT communications system based on small satellite platforms.
A global ground-communication system with more than 5 stations spread around the world.
SOLUTIONS.
Using machine learning and proprietary software, Aistech can integrate its own unique space data from its constellation of small satellites with other sources and applications to deliver customized data and analysis that drive better decisions. Aistech’s unique sector-agnostic geospatial intelligence addresses these gaps in the market with end-to-end data and solutions enhanced by our own space data.
Agriculture.
Challenge
Large rural farming communities, agribusiness enterprises, regional governments, and financial institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding field conditions to make decisions and ensure that resources such as water and fertilizer are used efficiently.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we deliver this key information at a lower cost than traditional scouting methods, enabling organizations to make smart investments, maximize their crop yields, and contribute to food and water security worldwide.
Aistech Solution
Crop Monitoring
We combine satellite imagery and ground sensor data to determine and recommend the right amount of nitrogen fertilizer and water at the right time to cut costs and maximize yield, provide early detection of pests and diseases, and build predictive yield models to anticipate future yields.
Crop Risk Analysis
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with water level data and other sources to build predictive models that can estimate the water availability over time and help organizations make decisions about new site investments.
With this type of analysis, Aistech can also model the environmental impact of agricultural activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Agriculture.
Challenge
Large rural farming communities, agribusiness enterprises, regional governments, and financial institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding field conditions to make decisions and ensure that resources such as water and fertilizer are used efficiently.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we deliver this key information at a lower cost than traditional scouting methods, enabling organizations to make smart investments, maximize their crop yields, and contribute to food and water security worldwide.
Aistech Solution
Crop Monitoring
We combine satellite imagery and ground sensor data to determine and recommend the right amount of nitrogen fertilizer and water at the right time to cut costs and maximize yield, provide early detection of pests and diseases, and build predictive yield models to anticipate future yields.
Crop Risk Analysis
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with water level data and other sources to build predictive models that can estimate the water availability over time and help organizations make decisions about new site investments.
With this type of analysis, Aistech can also model the environmental impact of agricultural activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Surface Water.
Challenge
Natural water is a critical and overexploited resource, proper management of it is mandatory. Both public and private organizations must find new ways of reducing anthropogenic impact thus increasing accessibility of the water. Proper management of this resource allows a fairer distribution and use of water and significant cost savings from minimizing the impact of flood, drought, and other environmental extremes.
Remote sensing is critical for understanding ecological and hydrological processes. Using techniques that leverage satellite imagery, we can complement ground observations and model the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water to understand historical behaviors and predict future ones. With space data, we enable a global overview of an area of interest, obtaining more extensive information than is possible with local sampling (single point).
Aistech Solution
Surface Water Monitoring
We process several kind remote sensing imagery (optical, NIR, TIR, SAR) that can combine with ground data to understand the dynamics of bodies of water, and build predictive models to anticipate how they will change in the future. With this knowledge, organizations can mitigate or prevent negative effects from water-related environmental impact, flooding, droughts, and un-sanctioned usage to safeguard the environment, nearby communities, and assets.
Bathymetry Analysis
Understanding the dynamics of a body of water not only implies using information on surface changes, but also analyzing changes in depth. To this end, Aistech leverages its expertise in bathymetry to provide three-dimensional analysis of bodies of water, enabling Aistech to generate more accurate surface water models and insights.
Land Use Analysis
To obtain a more complete awareness of the use of water resources, an organization needs to not only analyze the water, but also the external agents that influence it. To this end, Aistech provides 360º surface water models that analyze near-by land uses to help organizations understand what, when, why and who can be associated to water changes. This enables organizations to attribute pollution to sources and mitigate its effects.
Water Quality.
Challenge
Water Quality is an important indicator of physical, chemical, biological, and microbiological characteristics of water within oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.
Agro-fish farmers, regional governments, and financing institutions require continuous information about water quality in order to ensure the suitability of water.
Industrial activities can have a significant and adverse impact on water sources:
- Pollution of waterways from discharged substances into surface waters or groundwater without prior treatment .
- Chemical spills or leaks, trade effluent, silt accumulation or agrochemical runoff.
- Altered distribution of water from land use and infrastructure changes, e.g. the deforestation which alters plant stem water flow, infiltration rate and evapotranspiration processes. At a local level, changing water flows can affect water availability and quality.
- Industrial and agricultural withdrawal – over exploitation of water resources can decrease long term capacity and force operations to be displaced to more secure water areas.
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can help organizations monitor water quality and detect and predict industry effects to drive better responses to safeguard water sources.
Aistech Solution
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
Remote sensing using satellite imagery such as SAR, optical, and thermal is a cost efficient approach for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of water quality and it provides several advantages, such as non-intrusive, extensive reach to cover large areas, and a reduced need for in situ measurements. This type of analysis can help organizations monitor large areas to understand the impact that industrial activities are having on local water sources and respond to them sooner.
Algal Blooms Monitoring
Algal blooms present a major challenge, as they are often instigated by pollution and changing temperature and can kill a variety of marine and freshwater life through eutrophication. Usually these blooms give a distinct coloration visible in imagery, such as the red tide, although the coloration does vary depending on the type of bloom.
Variation in chlorophyll is one major variable in algal blooms in the area. Over large bodies of water, chlorophyll can be evaluated using optical multispectral imagery, helping organizations to detect and mitigate the impact of algal blooms.
Fishery.
Challenge
Organizations throughout the fishing and aquaculture industry require accurate, recurrent information to understand present water conditions and predict them in the future to make better decisions about where to fish and where to invest in new fish farms.
By combining satellite imagery with in situ data, we can deliver operational situational awareness across large areas that traditional methods cannot cover, identifying locations where conditions are best, where they do not meet desired parameters, and how they will change in the future.
Aistech Solution
Fishing Intelligence Platform
Aistech develops customized predictive models using satellite imagery to measure relevant water condition parameters such as chlorophyll levels and salinity to provide specific real-time recommendations of locations with a high probability of good fish harvest through a platform that can integration with the organization’s own data and other sources.
Fish Farm Monitoring
Aistech combines satellite imagery with in situ data to deliver recurrent, accurate water condition monitoring in aquaculture farms and areas of interest and develops predictive models to understand how these will change over time. With this monitoring system, organizations can protect their farms from unfavorable conditions, and choose sites for future investments with the right conditions to cultivate productive farms.
Surface Water.
Challenge
Natural water is a critical and overexploited resource, proper management of it is mandatory. Both public and private organizations must find new ways of reducing anthropogenic impact thus increasing accessibility of the water. Proper management of this resource allows a fairer distribution and use of water and significant cost savings from minimizing the impact of flood, drought, and other environmental extremes.
Remote sensing is critical for understanding ecological and hydrological processes. Using techniques that leverage satellite imagery, we can complement ground observations and model the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water to understand historical behaviors and predict future ones. With space data, we enable a global overview of an area of interest, obtaining more extensive information than is possible with local sampling (single point).
Aistech Solution
Surface Water Monitoring
We process several kind remote sensing imagery (optical, NIR, TIR, SAR) that can combine with ground data to understand the dynamics of bodies of water, and build predictive models to anticipate how they will change in the future. With this knowledge, organizations can mitigate or prevent negative effects from water-related environmental impact, flooding, droughts, and un-sanctioned usage to safeguard the environment, nearby communities, and assets.
Bathymetry Analysis
Understanding the dynamics of a body of water not only implies using information on surface changes, but also analyzing changes in depth. To this end, Aistech leverages its expertise in bathymetry to provide three-dimensional analysis of bodies of water, enabling Aistech to generate more accurate surface water models and insights.
Land Use Analysis
To obtain a more complete awareness of the use of water resources, an organization needs to not only analyze the water, but also the external agents that influence it. To this end, Aistech provides 360º surface water models that analyze near-by land uses to help organizations understand what, when, why and who can be associated to water changes. This enables organizations to attribute pollution to sources and mitigate its effects.
Water Quality.
Challenge
Water Quality is an important indicator of physical, chemical, biological, and microbiological characteristics of water within oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.
Agro-fish farmers, regional governments, and financing institutions require continuous information about water quality in order to ensure the suitability of water.
Industrial activities can have a significant and adverse impact on water sources:
- Pollution of waterways from discharged substances into surface waters or groundwater without prior treatment .
- Chemical spills or leaks, trade effluent, silt accumulation or agrochemical runoff.
- Altered distribution of water from land use and infrastructure changes, e.g. the deforestation which alters plant stem water flow, infiltration rate and evapotranspiration processes. At a local level, changing water flows can affect water availability and quality.
- Industrial and agricultural withdrawal – over exploitation of water resources can decrease long term capacity and force operations to be displaced to more secure water areas.
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can help organizations monitor water quality and detect and predict industry effects to drive better responses to safeguard water sources.
Aistech Solution
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
Remote sensing using satellite imagery such as SAR, optical, and thermal is a cost efficient approach for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of water quality and it provides several advantages, such as non-intrusive, extensive reach to cover large areas, and a reduced need for in situ measurements. This type of analysis can help organizations monitor large areas to understand the impact that industrial activities are having on local water sources and respond to them sooner.
Algal Blooms Monitoring
Algal blooms present a major challenge, as they are often instigated by pollution and changing temperature and can kill a variety of marine and freshwater life through eutrophication. Usually these blooms give a distinct coloration visible in imagery, such as the red tide, although the coloration does vary depending on the type of bloom.
Variation in chlorophyll is one major variable in algal blooms in the area. Over large bodies of water, chlorophyll can be evaluated using optical multispectral imagery, helping organizations to detect and mitigate the impact of algal blooms.
Fishery.
Challenge
Organizations throughout the fishing and aquaculture industry require accurate, recurrent information to understand present water conditions and predict them in the future to make better decisions about where to fish and where to invest in new fish farms.
By combining satellite imagery with in situ data, we can deliver operational situational awareness across large areas that traditional methods cannot cover, identifying locations where conditions are best, where they do not meet desired parameters, and how they will change in the future.
Aistech Solution
Fishing Intelligence Platform
Aistech develops customized predictive models using satellite imagery to measure relevant water condition parameters such as chlorophyll levels and salinity to provide specific real-time recommendations of locations with a high probability of good fish harvest through a platform that can integration with the organization’s own data and other sources.
Fish Farm Monitoring
Aistech combines satellite imagery with in situ data to deliver recurrent, accurate water condition monitoring in aquaculture farms and areas of interest and develops predictive models to understand how these will change over time. With this monitoring system, organizations can protect their farms from unfavorable conditions, and choose sites for future investments with the right conditions to cultivate productive farms.
Forestry.
Challenge
Governmental organizations, IGOs, NGOs, and companies require accurate, recurrent information to detect changes in vegetation and developing fire hazards across large swaths of land in order to manage and maintain their public forests and protect their assets. By leveraging satellite imagery including thermal, we can deliver situational awareness across large areas and detect indicators of deforestation and fire sooner, non-intrusively, and for a lower cost than traditional monitoring methods. We also build predictive models to mitigate future risk.
Aistech Solution
Aistech Space delivers deforestation and fire hazard monitoring, early warning, and prediction in a single platform tailored to client needs.
Deforestation
Aistech Space integrates space data with other sources to help organizations monitor land-cover and land-use, which can aid them in identifying rates, patterns and proximal causes of deforestation.
Together with forest inventories, this provides the foundation for monitoring, reporting. and verification systems. Example systems may be an early-warning of forest degradation, or a system to quantify loss (or gain) in above-ground biomass.
Fire Hazard
Aistech can provide near real-time early warning, burnt area mapping, and fire risk modeling to help organizations minimize the effects and risk of fire events. This analysis will leverage Aistech’s own high frequency, high resolution thermal infrared imagery, for which it will be the sole commercial provider in mid-2021.
Key variables we analyze to model fire risk:
- Fuel type (optical or SAR).
- Fuel moisture condition (thermal).
Infraestructure.
Challenge
Companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding their infrastructure installations to make decisions about their operations and safeguard the surrounding environment and communities.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of their infrastructure and related activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk.
Aistech Solution
HR imagery
Aistech and its partners can provide a birds’ eye view of your infrastructure and assets using high-resolution imagery (up to 0.3 m resolution). This solution is cost effective for basemaps and typically used for intermittent monitoring, where high-resolution details change gradually. Availability of visible imagery will depend on cloud cover.
Satellite-based HR digital surface models
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can provide digital surface models remotely, eliminating the need for people in the field. This reduces the cost and time spent performing large-scale surveying at ~ 1-2 m resolution, and limit the need for in-situ resources. Digital surface models are especially competitive in linear infrastructure surveys and can provide a high fidelity reference map for the surveyed area (RMSE < 2m).
Monitoring of land-use changes
We can provide maps of varying resolution according to need that can be delivered in different formats including a customized platform, and analysis of land-use and land-use change by combining optical, infrared and SAR data. These high to medium resolution maps enable stakeholders to lower costs on monitoring, more efficiently allocate in-person monitoring resources when needed, and take mitigating actions on potential hazards.
Mining.
Challenge
Large mine companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding mining installations to make decisions and increase the safety in the mining installations and its surroundings. The increasing number and size of mining operations increases the risk of adverse effects to the environment if not properly managed.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of mining activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk on active and enclosed installations.
Aistech Solution
Monitoring Environmental Risk from Mining Activity
Aistech can model the environmental impact of mining activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with ground sensor data to detect potential changes in underground water, changes in populated areas downstream of mining activity, and deformations in waste dumps and other installations. We also measure and build predictive models for dust emissivity inside and around the mine. With this information, we can provide early warning and characterize the effects of the mine to help organizations decide on the correct response.
Forestry.
Challenge
Governmental organizations, IGOs, NGOs, and companies require accurate, recurrent information to detect changes in vegetation and developing fire hazards across large swaths of land in order to manage and maintain their public forests and protect their assets. By leveraging satellite imagery including thermal, we can deliver situational awareness across large areas and detect indicators of deforestation and fire sooner, non-intrusively, and for a lower cost than traditional monitoring methods. We also build predictive models to mitigate future risk.
Aistech Solution
Aistech Space delivers deforestation and fire hazard monitoring, early warning, and prediction in a single platform tailored to client needs.
Deforestation
Aistech Space integrates space data with other sources to help organizations monitor land-cover and land-use, which can aid them in identifying rates, patterns and proximal causes of deforestation.
Together with forest inventories, this provides the foundation for monitoring, reporting. and verification systems. Example systems may be an early-warning of forest degradation, or a system to quantify loss (or gain) in above-ground biomass.
Fire Hazard
Aistech can provide near real-time early warning, burnt area mapping, and fire risk modeling to help organizations minimize the effects and risk of fire events. This analysis will leverage Aistech’s own high frequency, high resolution thermal infrared imagery, for which it will be the sole commercial provider in mid-2021.
Key variables we analyze to model fire risk:
- Fuel type (optical or SAR).
- Fuel moisture condition (thermal).
Infraestructure.
Challenge
Companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding their infrastructure installations to make decisions about their operations and safeguard the surrounding environment and communities.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of their infrastructure and related activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk.
Aistech Solution
HR imagery
Aistech and its partners can provide a birds’ eye view of your infrastructure and assets using high-resolution imagery (up to 0.3 m resolution). This solution is cost effective for basemaps and typically used for intermittent monitoring, where high-resolution details change gradually. Availability of visible imagery will depend on cloud cover.
Satellite-based HR digital surface models
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can provide digital surface models remotely, eliminating the need for people in the field. This reduces the cost and time spent performing large-scale surveying at ~ 1-2 m resolution, and limit the need for in-situ resources. Digital surface models are especially competitive in linear infrastructure surveys and can provide a high fidelity reference map for the surveyed area (RMSE < 2m).
Monitoring of land-use changes
We can provide maps of varying resolution according to need that can be delivered in different formats including a customized platform, and analysis of land-use and land-use change by combining optical, infrared and SAR data. These high to medium resolution maps enable stakeholders to lower costs on monitoring, more efficiently allocate in-person monitoring resources when needed, and take mitigating actions on potential hazards.
Mining.
Challenge
Large mine companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding mining installations to make decisions and increase the safety in the mining installations and its surroundings. The increasing number and size of mining operations increases the risk of adverse effects to the environment if not properly managed.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of mining activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk on active and enclosed installations.
Aistech Solution
Monitoring Environmental Risk from Mining Activity
Aistech can model the environmental impact of mining activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with ground sensor data to detect potential changes in underground water, changes in populated areas downstream of mining activity, and deformations in waste dumps and other installations. We also measure and build predictive models for dust emissivity inside and around the mine. With this information, we can provide early warning and characterize the effects of the mine to help organizations decide on the correct response.
Maritime Security.
Challenge
Piracy, smuggling, illegal fishing, waste dumping, and other illegal activities regularly occur in various seas and parts of the ocean. These areas are so vast that authorities lack of technical and human means to maintain situational awareness and stop these incidents.
Aistech Solution
We integrate space data such as optical, thermal, and SAR imagery and signals information with specialized data sources such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) according to customer needs to create an operational picture that shows all vessels in the area of interest and identifies those which are not emitting their position on AIS as expected. Our system then alerts authorities about these undeclared vessels and provides an estimation of their size, position, and next movements to deliver timely, actionable intelligence.
Maritime Security.
Challenge
Piracy, smuggling, illegal fishing, waste dumping, and other illegal activities regularly occur in various seas and parts of the ocean. These areas are so vast that authorities lack of technical and human means to maintain situational awareness and stop these incidents.
Aistech Solution
We integrate space data such as optical, thermal, and SAR imagery and signals information with specialized data sources such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) according to customer needs to create an operational picture that shows all vessels in the area of interest and identifies those which are not emitting their position on AIS as expected. Our system then alerts authorities about these undeclared vessels and provides an estimation of their size, position, and next movements to deliver timely, actionable intelligence.
DATA SERVICES.
Thermal Imagery.
Challenge
In 2022 Aistech started deploying a constellation of earth-observing satellites in the thermal band. The images taken by our space telescope are especially valuable thanks to their characteristics of high spatial resolution and high temporal frequency and will be a first-in-kind capability on the commercial market. These images, in conjunction with other data sources, will allow the generation of high-value geospatial intelligence that has until now not been possible.2
Our multispectral telescope (MST) including thermal is a unique optical payload developed by the Aistech Team. It is purpose-built for Earth Observation and enables the acquisition of images in three spectral channels simultaneously where atmospheric transmittance is greater than 60%. In the first version of MST, the system will be able to acquire images in the visible (VIS) (0.4um – 0.7um), near-infrared (NIR) (0.8um – 0.9um) and thermal (TIR / LWIR) (8.0um – 12.0) ranges. um).
Aistech Solution
- Provide a better proxy to estimate water content in vegetation and Earth surface.
- More accurate fire detection and fuel state estimation.
- Detection independent of light conditions. Providing insights about what activities are occuring.
Thermal Imagery.
Challenge
In 2022 Aistech started deploying a constellation of earth-observing satellites in the thermal band. The images taken by our space telescope are especially valuable thanks to their characteristics of high spatial resolution and high temporal frequency and will be a first-in-kind capability on the commercial market. These images, in conjunction with other data sources, will allow the generation of high-value geospatial intelligence that has until now not been possible.
Our multispectral telescope (MST) including thermal is a unique optical payload developed by the Aistech Team. It is purpose-built for Earth Observation and enables the acquisition of images in three spectral channels simultaneously where atmospheric transmittance is greater than 60%. In the first version of MST, the system will be able to acquire images in the visible (VIS) (0.4um – 0.7um), near-infrared (NIR) (0.8um – 0.9um) and thermal (TIR / LWIR) (8.0um – 12.0) ranges. um).
Aistech Solution
- Provide a better proxy to estimate water content in vegetation and Earth surface.
- More accurate fire detection and fuel state estimation.
- Detection independent of light conditions. Providing insights about what activities are occuring.
A NEW PERSPECTIVE INTO OUR CHANGING WORLD
MISSION.
Our mission is to generate affordable, recurrent, high resolution thermal imagery of the planet to provide a new perspective of Earth’s changing resources. By combining own thermal imagery captured from space and other data sources, we improve our customer’s decision-making processes toward a sustainable future.
SOLUTIONS.
Using machine learning and proprietary software, Aistech can integrate its own unique space data from it’s constellation of small satellite with other sources and applications to deliver customized data and analysis that drive better decisions. Aistech’s unique sector-agnostic geospatial intelligence addresses these gaps in the market with end-to-end data and solutions enhanced by their own space data.
TECHNOLOGY.
IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH
Aistech Space combines its expertise in geospatial analysis with its own constellation of small satellite and supporting infrastructure to provide solutions that help clients understand and monitor their assets. We leverage our strategic space capabilities (remote bidirectional communications, air traffic monitoring, and thermal infrared remote sensing) to help our customers make better, data-driven decisions. We have developed a first-in-kind commercial high-resolution (HR) thermal infrared (TIR) telescope for small satellite, which will be capable of monitoring large areas, reducing costs and offering solutions for organizations around the world.
First global company to develop a high-resolution thermal space telescope for small satellites.
First European company (and third Worldwide) to deploy a space-based air traffic monitoring system.
One of the nine Worldwide companies with 2 or more operative small satellite in orbit.
First Spanish company with a commercial small satellite constellation in orbit.
First Spanish company to deploy and operate an IoT communications system based on small satellite platforms.
A global ground-communication system with more than 5 stations spread around the world.
Agriculture.
Challenge
Large rural farming communities, agribusiness enterprises, regional governments, and financial institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding field conditions to make decisions and ensure that resources such as water and fertilizer are used efficiently.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we deliver this key information at a lower cost than traditional scouting methods, enabling organizations to make smart investments, maximize their crop yields, and contribute to food and water security worldwide.
Aistech Solution
Crop Monitoring
We combine satellite imagery and ground sensor data to determine and recommend the right amount of nitrogen fertilizer and water at the right time to cut costs and maximize yield, provide early detection of pests and diseases, and build predictive yield models to anticipate future yields.
Crop Risk Analysis
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with water level data and other sources to build predictive models that can estimate the water availability over time and help organizations make decisions about new site investments.
With this type of analysis, Aistech can also model the environmental impact of agricultural activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Agriculture.
Challenge
Large rural farming communities, agribusiness enterprises, regional governments, and financial institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding field conditions to make decisions and ensure that resources such as water and fertilizer are used efficiently.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we deliver this key information at a lower cost than traditional scouting methods, enabling organizations to make smart investments, maximize their crop yields, and contribute to food and water security worldwide.
Aistech Solution
Crop Monitoring
We combine satellite imagery and ground sensor data to determine and recommend the right amount of nitrogen fertilizer and water at the right time to cut costs and maximize yield, provide early detection of pests and diseases, and build predictive yield models to anticipate future yields.
Crop Risk Analysis
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with water level data and other sources to build predictive models that can estimate the water availability over time and help organizations make decisions about new site investments.
With this type of analysis, Aistech can also model the environmental impact of agricultural activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Surface Water.
Challenge
Natural water is a critical and overexploited resource, proper management of it is mandatory. Both public and private organizations must find new ways of reducing anthropogenic impact thus increasing accessibility of the water. Proper management of this resource allows a fairer distribution and use of water and significant cost savings from minimizing the impact of flood, drought, and other environmental extremes.
Remote sensing is critical for understanding ecological and hydrological processes. Using techniques that leverage satellite imagery, we can complement ground observations and model the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water to understand historical behaviors and predict future ones. With space data, we enable a global overview of an area of interest, obtaining more extensive information than is possible with local sampling (single point).
Aistech Solution
Surface Water Monitoring
We process several kind remote sensing imagery (optical, NIR, TIR, SAR) that can combine with ground data to understand the dynamics of bodies of water, and build predictive models to anticipate how they will change in the future. With this knowledge, organizations can mitigate or prevent negative effects from water-related environmental impact, flooding, droughts, and un-sanctioned usage to safeguard the environment, nearby communities, and assets.
Bathymetry Analysis
Understanding the dynamics of a body of water not only implies using information on surface changes, but also analyzing changes in depth. To this end, Aistech leverages its expertise in bathymetry to provide three-dimensional analysis of bodies of water, enabling Aistech to generate more accurate surface water models and insights.
Land Use Analysis
To obtain a more complete awareness of the use of water resources, an organization needs to not only analyze the water, but also the external agents that influence it. To this end, Aistech provides 360º surface water models that analyze near-by land uses to help organizations understand what, when, why and who can be associated to water changes. This enables organizations to attribute pollution to sources and mitigate its effects.
Water Quality.
Challenge
Water Quality is an important indicator of physical, chemical, biological, and microbiological characteristics of water within oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.
Agro-fish farmers, regional governments, and financing institutions require continuous information about water quality in order to ensure the suitability of water.
Industrial activities can have a significant and adverse impact on water sources:
- Pollution of waterways from discharged substances into surface waters or groundwater without prior treatment .
- Chemical spills or leaks, trade effluent, silt accumulation or agrochemical runoff.
- Altered distribution of water from land use and infrastructure changes, e.g. the deforestation which alters plant stem water flow, infiltration rate and evapotranspiration processes. At a local level, changing water flows can affect water availability and quality.
- Industrial and agricultural withdrawal – over exploitation of water resources can decrease long term capacity and force operations to be displaced to more secure water areas.
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can help organizations monitor water quality and detect and predict industry effects to drive better responses to safeguard water sources.
Aistech Solution
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
Remote sensing using satellite imagery such as SAR, optical, and thermal is a cost efficient approach for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of water quality and it provides several advantages, such as non-intrusive, extensive reach to cover large areas, and a reduced need for in situ measurements. This type of analysis can help organizations monitor large areas to understand the impact that industrial activities are having on local water sources and respond to them sooner.
Algal Blooms Monitoring
Algal blooms present a major challenge, as they are often instigated by pollution and changing temperature and can kill a variety of marine and freshwater life through eutrophication. Usually these blooms give a distinct coloration visible in imagery, such as the red tide, although the coloration does vary depending on the type of bloom.
Variation in chlorophyll is one major variable in algal blooms in the area. Over large bodies of water, chlorophyll can be evaluated using optical multispectral imagery, helping organizations to detect and mitigate the impact of algal blooms.
Fishery.
Challenge
Organizations throughout the fishing and aquaculture industry require accurate, recurrent information to understand present water conditions and predict them in the future to make better decisions about where to fish and where to invest in new fish farms.
By combining satellite imagery with in situ data, we can deliver operational situational awareness across large areas that traditional methods cannot cover, identifying locations where conditions are best, where they do not meet desired parameters, and how they will change in the future.
Aistech Solution
Fishing Intelligence Platform
Aistech develops customized predictive models using satellite imagery to measure relevant water condition parameters such as chlorophyll levels and salinity to provide specific real-time recommendations of locations with a high probability of good fish harvest through a platform that can integration with the organization’s own data and other sources.
Fish Farm Monitoring
Aistech combines satellite imagery with in situ data to deliver recurrent, accurate water condition monitoring in aquaculture farms and areas of interest and develops predictive models to understand how these will change over time. With this monitoring system, organizations can protect their farms from unfavorable conditions, and choose sites for future investments with the right conditions to cultivate productive farms.
Surface Water.
Challenge
Natural water is a critical and overexploited resource, proper management of it is mandatory. Both public and private organizations must find new ways of reducing anthropogenic impact thus increasing accessibility of the water. Proper management of this resource allows a fairer distribution and use of water and significant cost savings from minimizing the impact of flood, drought, and other environmental extremes.
Remote sensing is critical for understanding ecological and hydrological processes. Using techniques that leverage satellite imagery, we can complement ground observations and model the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water to understand historical behaviors and predict future ones. With space data, we enable a global overview of an area of interest, obtaining more extensive information than is possible with local sampling (single point).
Aistech Solution
Surface Water Monitoring
We process several kind remote sensing imagery (optical, NIR, TIR, SAR) that can combine with ground data to understand the dynamics of bodies of water, and build predictive models to anticipate how they will change in the future. With this knowledge, organizations can mitigate or prevent negative effects from water-related environmental impact, flooding, droughts, and un-sanctioned usage to safeguard the environment, nearby communities, and assets.
Bathymetry Analysis
Understanding the dynamics of a body of water not only implies using information on surface changes, but also analyzing changes in depth. To this end, Aistech leverages its expertise in bathymetry to provide three-dimensional analysis of bodies of water, enabling Aistech to generate more accurate surface water models and insights.
Land Use Analysis
To obtain a more complete awareness of the use of water resources, an organization needs to not only analyze the water, but also the external agents that influence it. To this end, Aistech provides 360º surface water models that analyze near-by land uses to help organizations understand what, when, why and who can be associated to water changes. This enables organizations to attribute pollution to sources and mitigate its effects.
Water Quality.
Challenge
Water Quality is an important indicator of physical, chemical, biological, and microbiological characteristics of water within oceans, seas, lakes and rivers.
Agro-fish farmers, regional governments, and financing institutions require continuous information about water quality in order to ensure the suitability of water.
Industrial activities can have a significant and adverse impact on water sources:
- Pollution of waterways from discharged substances into surface waters or groundwater without prior treatment .
- Chemical spills or leaks, trade effluent, silt accumulation or agrochemical runoff.
- Altered distribution of water from land use and infrastructure changes, e.g. the deforestation which alters plant stem water flow, infiltration rate and evapotranspiration processes. At a local level, changing water flows can affect water availability and quality.
- Industrial and agricultural withdrawal – over exploitation of water resources can decrease long term capacity and force operations to be displaced to more secure water areas.
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can help organizations monitor water quality and detect and predict industry effects to drive better responses to safeguard water sources.
Aistech Solution
Water Quality Assessment and Monitoring
Remote sensing using satellite imagery such as SAR, optical, and thermal is a cost efficient approach for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of water quality and it provides several advantages, such as non-intrusive, extensive reach to cover large areas, and a reduced need for in situ measurements. This type of analysis can help organizations monitor large areas to understand the impact that industrial activities are having on local water sources and respond to them sooner.
Algal Blooms Monitoring
Algal blooms present a major challenge, as they are often instigated by pollution and changing temperature and can kill a variety of marine and freshwater life through eutrophication. Usually these blooms give a distinct coloration visible in imagery, such as the red tide, although the coloration does vary depending on the type of bloom.
Variation in chlorophyll is one major variable in algal blooms in the area. Over large bodies of water, chlorophyll can be evaluated using optical multispectral imagery, helping organizations to detect and mitigate the impact of algal blooms.
Fishery.
Challenge
Organizations throughout the fishing and aquaculture industry require accurate, recurrent information to understand present water conditions and predict them in the future to make better decisions about where to fish and where to invest in new fish farms.
By combining satellite imagery with in situ data, we can deliver operational situational awareness across large areas that traditional methods cannot cover, identifying locations where conditions are best, where they do not meet desired parameters, and how they will change in the future.
Aistech Solution
Fishing Intelligence Platform
Aistech develops customized predictive models using satellite imagery to measure relevant water condition parameters such as chlorophyll levels and salinity to provide specific real-time recommendations of locations with a high probability of good fish harvest through a platform that can integration with the organization’s own data and other sources.
Fish Farm Monitoring
Aistech combines satellite imagery with in situ data to deliver recurrent, accurate water condition monitoring in aquaculture farms and areas of interest and develops predictive models to understand how these will change over time. With this monitoring system, organizations can protect their farms from unfavorable conditions, and choose sites for future investments with the right conditions to cultivate productive farms.
Forestry.
Challenge
Governmental organizations, IGOs, NGOs, and companies require accurate, recurrent information to detect changes in vegetation and developing fire hazards across large swaths of land in order to manage and maintain their public forests and protect their assets. By leveraging satellite imagery including thermal, we can deliver situational awareness across large areas and detect indicators of deforestation and fire sooner, non-intrusively, and for a lower cost than traditional monitoring methods. We also build predictive models to mitigate future risk.
Aistech Solution
Aistech Space delivers deforestation and fire hazard monitoring, early warning, and prediction in a single platform tailored to client needs.
Deforestation
Aistech Space integrates space data with other sources to help organizations monitor land-cover and land-use, which can aid them in identifying rates, patterns and proximal causes of deforestation.
Together with forest inventories, this provides the foundation for monitoring, reporting. and verification systems. Example systems may be an early-warning of forest degradation, or a system to quantify loss (or gain) in above-ground biomass.
Fire Hazard
Aistech can provide near real-time early warning, burnt area mapping, and fire risk modeling to help organizations minimize the effects and risk of fire events. This analysis will leverage Aistech’s own high frequency, high resolution thermal infrared imagery, for which it will be the sole commercial provider in mid-2021.
Key variables we analyze to model fire risk:
- Fuel type (optical or SAR).
- Fuel moisture condition (thermal).
Infraestructure.
Challenge
Companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding their infrastructure installations to make decisions about their operations and safeguard the surrounding environment and communities.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of their infrastructure and related activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk.
Aistech Solution
HR imagery
Aistech and its partners can provide a birds’ eye view of your infrastructure and assets using high-resolution imagery (up to 0.3 m resolution). This solution is cost effective for basemaps and typically used for intermittent monitoring, where high-resolution details change gradually. Availability of visible imagery will depend on cloud cover.
Satellite-based HR digital surface models
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can provide digital surface models remotely, eliminating the need for people in the field. This reduces the cost and time spent performing large-scale surveying at ~ 1-2 m resolution, and limit the need for in-situ resources. Digital surface models are especially competitive in linear infrastructure surveys and can provide a high fidelity reference map for the surveyed area (RMSE < 2m).
Monitoring of land-use changes
We can provide maps of varying resolution according to need that can be delivered in different formats including a customized platform, and analysis of land-use and land-use change by combining optical, infrared and SAR data. These high to medium resolution maps enable stakeholders to lower costs on monitoring, more efficiently allocate in-person monitoring resources when needed, and take mitigating actions on potential hazards.
Mining.
Challenge
Large mine companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding mining installations to make decisions and increase the safety in the mining installations and its surroundings. The increasing number and size of mining operations increases the risk of adverse effects to the environment if not properly managed.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of mining activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk on active and enclosed installations.
Aistech Solution
Monitoring Environmental Risk from Mining Activity
Aistech can model the environmental impact of mining activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with ground sensor data to detect potential changes in underground water, changes in populated areas downstream of mining activity, and deformations in waste dumps and other installations. We also measure and build predictive models for dust emissivity inside and around the mine. With this information, we can provide early warning and characterize the effects of the mine to help organizations decide on the correct response.
Forestry.
Challenge
Governmental organizations, IGOs, NGOs, and companies require accurate, recurrent information to detect changes in vegetation and developing fire hazards across large swaths of land in order to manage and maintain their public forests and protect their assets. By leveraging satellite imagery including thermal, we can deliver situational awareness across large areas and detect indicators of deforestation and fire sooner, non-intrusively, and for a lower cost than traditional monitoring methods. We also build predictive models to mitigate future risk.
Aistech Solution
Aistech Space delivers deforestation and fire hazard monitoring, early warning, and prediction in a single platform tailored to client needs.
Deforestation
Aistech Space integrates space data with other sources to help organizations monitor land-cover and land-use, which can aid them in identifying rates, patterns and proximal causes of deforestation.
Together with forest inventories, this provides the foundation for monitoring, reporting. and verification systems. Example systems may be an early-warning of forest degradation, or a system to quantify loss (or gain) in above-ground biomass.
Fire Hazard
Aistech can provide near real-time early warning, burnt area mapping, and fire risk modeling to help organizations minimize the effects and risk of fire events. This analysis will leverage Aistech’s own high frequency, high resolution thermal infrared imagery, for which it will be the sole commercial provider in mid-2021.
Key variables we analyze to model fire risk:
- Fuel type (optical or SAR).
- Fuel moisture condition (thermal).
Infraestructure.
Challenge
Companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding their infrastructure installations to make decisions about their operations and safeguard the surrounding environment and communities.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of their infrastructure and related activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk.
Aistech Solution
HR imagery
Aistech and its partners can provide a birds’ eye view of your infrastructure and assets using high-resolution imagery (up to 0.3 m resolution). This solution is cost effective for basemaps and typically used for intermittent monitoring, where high-resolution details change gradually. Availability of visible imagery will depend on cloud cover.
Satellite-based HR digital surface models
Using satellite imagery, Aistech can provide digital surface models remotely, eliminating the need for people in the field. This reduces the cost and time spent performing large-scale surveying at ~ 1-2 m resolution, and limit the need for in-situ resources. Digital surface models are especially competitive in linear infrastructure surveys and can provide a high fidelity reference map for the surveyed area (RMSE < 2m).
Monitoring of land-use changes
We can provide maps of varying resolution according to need that can be delivered in different formats including a customized platform, and analysis of land-use and land-use change by combining optical, infrared and SAR data. These high to medium resolution maps enable stakeholders to lower costs on monitoring, more efficiently allocate in-person monitoring resources when needed, and take mitigating actions on potential hazards.
Mining.
Challenge
Large mine companies, regional governments, and financing institutions require accurate, recurrent information regarding mining installations to make decisions and increase the safety in the mining installations and its surroundings. The increasing number and size of mining operations increases the risk of adverse effects to the environment if not properly managed.
By leveraging satellite imagery, we help organizations monitor effects such as air and water pollution of mining activities on the local environment over large areas at a lower cost than traditional methods, enabling organizations to respond to developing problems quickly and minimize risk on active and enclosed installations.
Aistech Solution
Monitoring Environmental Risk from Mining Activity
Aistech can model the environmental impact of mining activities on the surrounding environment and communities, helping organizations manage their operations to reduce negative outcomes and meet corporate responsibility standards.
Aistech combines imagery such as optical and SAR with ground sensor data to detect potential changes in underground water, changes in populated areas downstream of mining activity, and deformations in waste dumps and other installations. We also measure and build predictive models for dust emissivity inside and around the mine. With this information, we can provide early warning and characterize the effects of the mine to help organizations decide on the correct response.
Maritime Security.
Challenge
Piracy, smuggling, illegal fishing, waste dumping, and other illegal activities regularly occur in various seas and parts of the ocean. These areas are so vast that authorities lack of technical and human means to maintain situational awareness and stop these incidents.
Aistech Solution
We integrate space data such as optical, thermal, and SAR imagery and signals information with specialized data sources such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) according to customer needs to create an operational picture that shows all vessels in the area of interest and identifies those which are not emitting their position on AIS as expected. Our system then alerts authorities about these undeclared vessels and provides an estimation of their size, position, and next movements to deliver timely, actionable intelligence.
Maritime Security.
Challenge
Piracy, smuggling, illegal fishing, waste dumping, and other illegal activities regularly occur in various seas and parts of the ocean. These areas are so vast that authorities lack of technical and human means to maintain situational awareness and stop these incidents.
Aistech Solution
We integrate space data such as optical, thermal, and SAR imagery and signals information with specialized data sources such as the Automatic Identification System (AIS) according to customer needs to create an operational picture that shows all vessels in the area of interest and identifies those which are not emitting their position on AIS as expected. Our system then alerts authorities about these undeclared vessels and provides an estimation of their size, position, and next movements to deliver timely, actionable intelligence.
DATA SERVICES.
Thermal Imagery.
Challenge
In 2022 Aistech started deploying a constellation of earth-observing satellites in the thermal band. The images taken by our space telescope are especially valuable thanks to their characteristics of high spatial resolution and high temporal frequency and will be a first-in-kind capability on the commercial market. These images, in conjunction with other data sources, will allow the generation of high-value geospatial intelligence that has until now not been possible.2
Our multispectral telescope (MST) including thermal is a unique optical payload developed by the Aistech Team. It is purpose-built for Earth Observation and enables the acquisition of images in three spectral channels simultaneously where atmospheric transmittance is greater than 60%. In the first version of MST, the system will be able to acquire images in the visible (VIS) (0.4um – 0.7um), near-infrared (NIR) (0.8um – 0.9um) and thermal (TIR / LWIR) (8.0um – 12.0) ranges. um).
Aistech Solution
- Provide a better proxy to estimate water content in vegetation and Earth surface.
- More accurate fire detection and fuel state estimation.
- Detection independent of light conditions. Providing insights about what activities are occuring.
Thermal Imagery.
Challenge
In 2022 Aistech started deploying a constellation of earth-observing satellites in the thermal band. The images taken by our space telescope are especially valuable thanks to their characteristics of high spatial resolution and high temporal frequency and will be a first-in-kind capability on the commercial market. These images, in conjunction with other data sources, will allow the generation of high-value geospatial intelligence that has until now not been possible.
Our multispectral telescope (MST) including thermal is a unique optical payload developed by the Aistech Team. It is purpose-built for Earth Observation and enables the acquisition of images in three spectral channels simultaneously where atmospheric transmittance is greater than 60%. In the first version of MST, the system will be able to acquire images in the visible (VIS) (0.4um – 0.7um), near-infrared (NIR) (0.8um – 0.9um) and thermal (TIR / LWIR) (8.0um – 12.0) ranges. um).
Aistech Solution
- Provide a better proxy to estimate water content in vegetation and Earth surface.
- More accurate fire detection and fuel state estimation.
- Detection independent of light conditions. Providing insights about what activities are occuring.