We help businesses, cities and governments plan, monitor and manage valuable assets. Increasingly, assets — whether buildings, infrastructure, cities or commodities — are sensed in some way, and our sensor processing, data fusion, and cloud platform expertise is delivering benefits across the infrastructure sector where remote monitoring, multi-sensor systems, site or logistics planning are required.

Construction and Asset Management

Our technology can provide key inputs through the full lifecycle of construction, from site assessment to ongoing management of key assets, delivered directly to your software systems or as dedicated reports and images compatible with BIM tools. We work with Tier 1 suppliers and businesses directly to provide cost-effective solutions that meet a wide range of requirements. Examples of our data-driven intelligence services and consultancy include:

Smart Cities

Smart cities know how to harness, connect and utilise their enormous amounts of data and resources for the greater good, delivering better-planned, cleaner and more sustainable environments. Intelligent use of big data — using in, below and above ground sensors; internet-enabled devices, places and buildings; and connected systems — is transforming the way people live and their quality of life. 

We know how to handle big data, optimally process and fuse to extract meaning, trends and other valuable intelligence for city planners, businesses, authorities and communities, using our expertise to deliver benefits through technologies that include:

Examples include projects where we have mapped city hotspots to help enable better management of metropolitan area temperatures over hot summer periods by providing accurate wide-area temperature maps at 15m resolution, and where our vegetation monitoring and analysis has provided intelligence to enable smarter water usage of green spaces.

Logistics

For transport and logistics businesses serving rural communities, knowledge of crop locations and predicted yields enables asset and resource optimisation. Utilising our advanced  algorithm technology we can work with your business to help deliver real cost savings and efficiencies, using intelligence to give insights including:

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Case Studies & News

Providing Cloud-Free Satellite Images

A review of options for managing clouds in optical satellite images

Most Earth Observation satellites use optical sensors to image the ground: that is, cameras that collect radiation in the visible (and often near infrared) band of the electromagnetic spectrum to create an image or set of images at several wavelengths. All suffer from the fact that clouds are highly reflective at such wavelengths, and so detail below clouds cannot be seen. This has driven research into processing techniques that "fill-in" detail below clouds as a means of dealing with the problem. Here we share our capabilities in this regard and discuss the pros and cons of approaches to handling clouds in images.

September 2023

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Water Indices

Monitoring Moisture Changes

D-CAT offers a variety of different imagery-derived water indices that are used in various applications, including agriculture monitoring where they offer food producers and farmers invaluable insights to help them sustainably manage their crops and soil.

April 2021

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Monitoring Land Surface Temperature

Smart processing for higher resolution images

The challenge to monitor changing temperatures in urban and rural areas has never been more real or important. Most commonly, temperature readings are taken by measuring the temperature of the air. However, this has a major drawback in that it cannot account for variation of temperature on different surfaces and materials. To do so, Land Surface Temperature (LST) is required. LST readings are generally obtained through remote sensing observations from satellites, which offer the benefit of monitoring cities, regions and nations at scale and at regular intervals. What differentiates D-CAT’s LST product is the unparalleled spatial resolution of 15m enabling more precise spatial insights.

March 2021

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Land Recovery after Forest Fires

Kangaroo Island, South Australia

There is an increasing need for affordable, effective monitoring of damage and recovery related to wildfires, with the recent incidents in Perth, Australia being only the latest example. Understanding the damage done to land, rivers and other parts of the vital environmental eco-system is critical to decisions made in the months and years thereafter, from monitoring run-offs to soil recovery and vegetation regrowth. With forests covering millions of acres of land worldwide, and bushfires generally impacting large tracts of land, satellite-based imaging services from D-CAT can play a key role in decision making during and after the event.

February 2021

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