Energy and commodities monitoring
Floating-roof tank storage levels, refinery and mine activity, gas flaring and stockpile volumes, measured from open imagery on a standing cadence.
Sensors
- Sentinel-2: 10 m optical, ~5 day revisit; tank shadows, stockpiles, mine faces
- Sentinel-1 SAR: tank roof heights and port activity through cloud
- VIIRS: nightly gas-flaring detection and radiant heat
How storage is read from orbit
Crude storage tanks have floating roofs, and a floating roof casts a shadow proportional to how empty the tank is. Measure the crescent shadow inside the tank rim across a tank farm, repeat every few days, and you have a storage-level series for a facility that publishes nothing. This is the established method for monitoring floating storage from satellite imagery, and it runs perfectly well on open 10-metre optical data for large tank farms.
Coal, ore and grain stockpiles yield to the same logic: area from optical imagery, height from radar or shadow geometry, volume from both. Flaring appears in VIIRS nightly infrared as a bright, persistent point that does not correlate with city lights.
What the product delivers
A time series per facility: storage estimates, activity indicators, flaring intensity, with the scene evidence attached so an analyst can check the measurement rather than trust it. Coverage is set by you: a national refinery network, a competitor's export terminal, a sanctioned port.
The honest limits: 10-metre imagery reads large industrial facilities, not individual small tanks; persistent cloud stretches optical revisit, which is why radar rides alongside. Where a desk needs daily certainty over one terminal, commercial tasking is quoted separately and named as such.