Utilities Tree Incursion

Tree Incursion

Identifies the risk of water or sewerage pipe incursion from roots because of the abnormal growth of trees in a given area.

Use this service when you have a section of water or sewerage pipe which you think may be damaged through incursion by tree roots. Given a pipe network, the area expanded around it and the detected trees within that area, the algorithm allocates risk scores to areas surrounding the pipe to highlight the most likely areas which have damage. The output is provided as a GeoTIFF showing the likelihood of tree incursion. A GeoJSON which includes the tree incursion risk score per pipe and a CSV file containing the same information as well as a preview image are also provided.

Utilities Tree Incursion

Case Studies & News

Detecting and Monitoring Solar Farms

Large scale detection and monitoring of renewable energy sources

In order to mitigate the impacts of climate change and reduce the use of fossil fuels, the implementation and use of renewable energy sources is key. Remote sensing provides valuable monitoring of solar farms that enables their efficiency, and hence output, to be tracked over time at scale, efficiently from a distance. In this case study we demonstrate the automatic detection of some solar farms in the south of England and how regular monitoring using satellite thermal imaging reports on their efficiency.

July 2023

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Detecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Monitoring the occurrence and volume of methane leaks

Reducing methane emissions is imperative in the fight against climate change. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with around 80 times more warming capacity than carbon dioxide, meaning that a large reduction in emissions would result in a significant step towards climate goals and a liveable future. D-CAT has developed algorithms using existing remote sensing sources to detect methane emissions, map plumes and estimate emission volumes across the globe.

May 2023

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Pasture Biomass Mapping

Accurate mapping irrespective of cloud cover

Trusted, accurate mapping of pasture biomass bring another level of decision making to anyone working with pastures, and offers the potential for more efficient practices, optimised feed management and the avoidance of over-grazing. Removing the need to estimate biomass by eye, plate-meter or drone/aircraft flights, satellite-derived biomass mapping saves time and money. Here we share our latest case study, where a best-practice test farm in Australia has finished trialling our pasture biomass service and is utilising it to develop optimal stock movements, improve sustainability and drive greater efficiencies.

August 2021

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See Risk in a Very Different Way

Guest Expert on Financial Services Analytics: Gary McCarthy

Gary McCarthy, a Financial Services industry expert, is currently doing some work with us at D-CAT. In this article, Gary shares some telling insight on the challenges financial markets have in spotting real change.

June 2021

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Capabilities

Image Processing & Fusion

Specialist image analysis and data fusion

We go beyond standard approaches to extract greater value from imagery for our customers. Whatever the image waveband, type or quality, we have the understanding and experience to meet even the most demanding of requirements, whether through existing algorithms or new, bespoke solutions, we can tailor to price and performance demands. As image and data fusion experts, we also bring the ability to offer enhanced performance from multiple sensor sources, where available.

 

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Platforms & APIs

Robust cloud platforms and API solutions

Being able to extract insight from data is not enough to be useable by customers to solve their problems. Needed alongside clever algorithms is the ability to develop robust, secure and useable solutions which, for example, integrate with customer systems, or provide stand-alone systems which can be used by end users.

 

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Publications

Budykho, K., Boureanu, I., Wesemeyer, S., Romero, D., Lewis, M., Rahulan, Y., Rajaona, F. and Schneider, S. (2023) "Fine-Grained Trackability in Protocol Executions" Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023

Miller, R., Boureanu, I., Wesemeyer, S., Newton, C.J.P. (2022) "The 5G Key-Establishment Stack: In-Depth Formal Verification and Experimentation" Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Scarles, C., Treharne, H., Casey, M.C., Abidin, H.Z. (2020) "Micro-mobilities in Curated Spaces: Agency, Autonomy and Dwelling in Visitor Experiences of Augmented Reality in Arts and Heritage" Mobilities

Hickman, D.L., Smith, M.I., Lim, J., Jeon, Y. (2018) "Modelling of Celestial Backgrounds" Proceedings of SPIE 10641, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications XI

Al-Khalili, J., Smith, A., Sen, P. (2017) "Gravity and Me: the Force that Shapes our Lives" BBC 4 science programme using an iOS and Android app to measure local relativity effects

Treharne, H., Casey, M.C., Schneider, S., Wesemeyer, S., Ross, T., May, A., Blainey, S., Pritchard, J. (2016) "Integrating Data Sources to Enhance the Experience for Passengers with Special Needs and/or Disabilities through Privacy Aware Mobile Applications" Data to Improve the Customer Experience, RRUKA, 20/09/2016 Download

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