Navigating the Oceans: Satellite Imagery for Marine & Vessel Tracking

Vessel Tracking and Monitoring

Watching and keeping track of ships and boats is a major use. Our vessel tracking satellite imagery helps:

• Detect and track vessels, even those trying to hide their movements ("dark activity").
• Protect against false signals ("spoofing") to ensure accurate locations.
• Monitor ship movement within areas of strategic interest.
• Observe suspicious activities like transferring goods between ships at sea or unusual behavior, often at near-daily frequency.
• Fill in missing information and intelligence gaps for a complete picture.
• Help in real-time monitoring of naval assets, fishing boats, cargo ships, oil tankers, navy vessels, and important sea routes.

For detailed port activity, our systems can detect oil tanks with 90% accuracy (0.3-1m resolution) and identify port traffic with 70% accuracy (0.3m resolution). This precision is key for effective satellite imagery for vessel tracking.

Maritime Domain Monitoring

Keeping an eye on the entire marine area for safety and management is very important. Our maritime satellite monitoring solutions provide comprehensive coverage of Earth's waters, ports, and coastlines to:

• Monitor maritime pollution, helping to find oil spills or other harmful materials in open waters.
• Ship detection and classification, identifying different types of vessels and their purpose.
• Overall maritime situational awareness, providing a clear understanding of what is happening across large sea areas.
• Monitoring of ship routes to ensure they are following planned paths.
• Detection of illegal behaviors, such as unlawful fishing or smuggling.

Coastal Erosion and Shoreline Monitoring

The edges of land near the sea can change over time due to natural forces or human activity. Satellite imagery for marine helps to watch these changes, including coastal erosion and how shorelines are moving. This allows for proactive management and protection of vital coastal areas.

Marine Environment Monitoring

Protecting our oceans and seas is crucial. Satellite for marine helps to monitor water quality parameters, looking for signs of pollution or unhealthy changes. It also supports patrolling and protecting large marine conservation areas remotely, ensuring wildlife and ecosystems are safe.

Fisheries and Aquaculture Management

Managing fishing and fish farming needs careful watching. Satellite imagery helps track fishing boat activity, watch fish farms, and prevent illegal fishing. This ensures sustainable practices and protects marine resources.

Emergency Monitoring and Response

When natural disasters or safety incidents happen in marine areas, quick and accurate information is vital. Maritime satellite monitoring allows for continuous, all-day, all-weather monitoring of marine plants and facilities during disasters like storms or oil spills. This enhances rapid emergency response and handling capabilities, improving the overall technical level of marine safety.

Very High Resolution (VHR) Optical Satellites

These satellites give us incredibly clear, sharp pictures, perfect for seeing small details of vessels or coastal infrastructure, ideal for precise vessel tracking satellite imagery. They also offer frequent revisits for dynamic monitoring.

• Superview Neo-1: 0.3m/px resolution, daily revisit for middle and high latitudes.
• Superview-1: 0.5m/px resolution, daily revisit capability.
• Superview-2: 0.4m/px resolution, 3-day revisit.
• GF-7: 0.65m/px resolution.
• GF-2: 0.8m/px resolution.

2m-Level Optical & Wide-Swath Optical Satellites

Great for covering larger areas with good detail and quickly seeing big changes across vast marine landscapes, supporting overall satellite for marine management. They provide excellent regional awareness.

• GF-6: 2m/px resolution.
• GF-1: 8m/px resolution.
• GF-4: 50m/px resolution, revisits every 20 seconds.

Radar (SAR) Satellites

These are special because they can see through clouds and at night, making them perfect for bad weather or 24/7 continuous maritime satellite monitoring. They ensure consistent data collection regardless of conditions.

• GF-3 SAR: 1m/px resolution, 10-day revisit (C-band SAR).
• LT-1 SAR: 3m/px resolution, 8-day (one satellite) or 4-day (two satellites) revisit (L-band SAR).

Overall System Capability

The SuperView Neo Commercial Satellite System, with 28 satellites (16 VHR Optical, 4 Wide-Swath Optical, and 8 SAR satellites), offers an impressive revisit capability of up to 25 times per day and covers 30 million km² per day. This ensures continuous, global satellite imagery for vessel tracking and marine domain awareness.

Optical Imagery

These are like regular photographs but from space, offering visual details for marine environments and coastlines, critical for accurate assessments.

• Panchromatic Imagery: High-resolution black-and-white images for detailed surface features.
• Multispectral Imagery: Captures data in multiple wavelengths (Panchromatic, Red, Green, Blue, NIR, Purple, Yellow, Red Edge, NIR1, NIR2), providing a colorful view of the landscape. Useful for environmental protection and coastal analysis.
• Infrared Imagery: Detects heat patterns, suitable for wildfire detection (coastal fires), defense, and industrial monitoring (offshore platforms).
• Hyperspectral Imagery: Analyzes hundreds of light bands to provide highly detailed material composition data, valuable for environmental studies and detecting specific types of pollution.

Radar Imagery (SAR Products)

These images are special because they work day and night and can see through clouds or heavy rain. This makes them highly reliable for continuous maritime satellite monitoring, regardless of weather conditions or time of day, filling crucial data gaps.

• Provides all-weather, day-and-night imaging capabilities, enabling change detection even through heavy cloud cover or complete darkness.
• Features multiple imaging modes like spotlight mode (high-resolution localized areas) and stripmap mode (wide-area coverage).
• Supports various polarization types including single, dual, and full polarization, offering richer data.
• Utilizes different imaging frequency bands, specifically L, C, and X bands, to ensure high precision across various applications like urban development (ports), environmental monitoring, and defense.
• Specifically, GF-3 SAR uses C-band SAR and LT-1 SAR uses L-band SAR.

Digital Elevation Models (DEM) and Digital Surface Models (DSM)

These are like 3D maps of the land and coastline. They provide essential tools for precise port planning and coastal resource management, offering a reliable foundation for understanding land and near-shore features. DSMs, with 3D representations of terrain and buildings, enable planners to visualize port landscapes and coastal structures in detail, aiding in resource allocation and disaster preparedness in coastal areas.

Digital Orthophoto Maps (DOM)

These are satellite images that have been fixed so they are perfectly aligned to the Earth and don't have distortions from uneven land. They ensure pixel-perfect clarity with a resolution of 50 cm and 8m CE90 precision. These are invaluable for mapping details like port infrastructure, coastal developments, and shallow water features, essential for marine planning or coastal engineering projects.

3D Geographical Scenes & City Models

High-resolution 3D models for coastal urban and marine applications provide real-time insights into port infrastructure and coastal development, supporting planning, construction, and disaster management. AI-powered building contour extraction allows for precise urban planning and scenario modeling for coastal cities. These models are a powerful tool for visual and spatial analysis in maritime satellite monitoring.

AI Change Detection and InSAR Technology

Using high-resolution remote sensing data and AI change detection technology, areas for each construction phase in port expansions or offshore facilities can be quickly extracted. This enables timely and accurate monitoring of oil and gas facility construction progress and pipeline developments in remote areas (including offshore pipelines and platforms). AI interpretation techniques and InSAR technology are applied for dynamic monitoring of oil and gas pipeline deformations (e.g., seabed pipelines), geological hazard risks (e.g., coastal landslides), construction encroachments, and gas leakages (offshore). This ensures comprehensive surveys, routine inspections, and emergency checks to maintain safety.

Access to 130+ Satellites

Our large network ensures we can get imagery for any type of marine terrain or weather condition, guaranteeing you get the necessary vessel tracking satellite imagery. This provides comprehensive coverage of ports and coastlines.

Fast Turnaround Times

Get Earth Observation imagery in less than 7 days and DEMs in less than 21 days, even for large or remote marine areas, vital for active maritime satellite monitoring. High cadence satellite images are available across maritime areas of interest.

High Accuracy Outputs

Enjoy sub-meter resolution with CE90 and RMSE specs that meet even the most demanding project standards, ensuring precise satellite imagery for vessel tracking. This leads to reliable and actionable results.

Compatible Data Formats

Delivered in formats you already use — GeoTIFF, SHP, DWG, and UTM — for seamless integration with your GIS or CAD workflows for your satellite for marine operations. This ensures efficient access and integration into your tools.

No Export License Delays

As a non-U.S. provider, we avoid export control bottlenecks, getting your data to you faster and with fewer restrictions for your satellite imagery for marine projects. This means streamlined delivery and operations.

Flexible Licensing

Designed to match your operational realities, whether you're tracking illegal fishing or monitoring vast ocean areas, our licenses are simple and publication-friendly. This provides freedom and adaptability for your projects.

Water Basin Modeling

Our satellite imagery has given detailed models for complicated water systems, improving hydrological analysis and water resource management, which is crucial for river basins leading to the sea.

Flood & Disaster Mapping

Rapid-response Earth Observation imagery enabled critical response efforts in coastal Libya and Southeast Asia, supporting evacuation, assessment, and recovery. This is a direct application of satellite imagery for vessel tracking and general marine disaster response during emergencies.

Border Surveillance

By mixing radar (SAR) and regular optical satellite imagery, we provide constant, all-weather monitoring of sensitive border regions, including maritime borders, for enhanced maritime satellite monitoring.

Smart City Zoning (Coastal)

Enabled forward-thinking urban planning in coastal cities with high-resolution data tailored for zoning, mobility, and growth projections, utilizing satellite imagery for marine urban areas.

National Infrastructure DEMs (Coastal & Port)

Delivered high-accuracy Digital Elevation Models across various regions to guide large-scale infrastructure and transportation planning, including ports and coastal developments, vital for any large-scale satellite for marine project.