Encroachment Monitoring for Critical Infrastructure
Detect, track, and prevent unauthorized activity around pipelines, railways, utilities, and other high-value assets with SAR
Vegetation and right-of-way encroachment can lead to damage, life-threatening safety risks, operational disruptions, and financial loss.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote monitoring is a reliable means to proactively detect encroachment, especially in areas prone to severe storms, flooding, and earthquakes.
Applications
Pipelines
Damage to natural gas, oil, or hazardous liquid pipelines can have devastating consequences, causing harm to people, property, and water supplies and resulting in significant financial losses.
SAR remote monitoring tracks vegetation, construction, and right-of-way encroachment on buried and above-ground pipelines.
Utilities
Power lines and telecommunications cables can be struck by vegetation, poles, fences, and other objects, causing damage and leading to outages.
SAR data alerts you to potential issues so immediate action can be taken, and service is uninterrupted.
Rail & Road
Tracks and roadways can be blocked by vegetation, unauthorized pathways, equipment, and dwellings which can result in injuries and service outages.
SAR monitoring ensures all types of encroachment do not breach the limits of safety/property lines and interfere with critical transportation infrastructure.
Private and Municipal land
Detect and monitor unauthorized dwellings, equipment, and road or pathway construction on private and public land.
Other High-Value Assets
Other high-value assets, such as airports, seaports, data centers, and wind farms are also at risk of encroachment and should be monitored to ensure safety, security, and uninterrupted service.
SAR is an all-weather, day and night monitoring solution. With scan modes covering 1000s of kilometers at a time to smaller scenes with up to 1-meter resolution, SAR can be scaled to meet the needs of any project, from small-scale monitoring to large-scale infrastructure protection.
Benefits of SAR for Encroachment Monitoring
Early Detection, Near-Real-Time Monitoring
The ingeniSPACE constellation constantly monitors your areas of interest, revisiting the exact location at the frequency suited to your application, even up to every few hours during a 24-hour period.
SAR allows you to take action quickly, avoiding costly outages, damage, and interrupted service.
Time and Resource Savings
SAR is a valuable complement to ground patrols, aerial monitoring, on-the-ground sensors, and other in-situ monitoring.
When SAR detects encroachment, a ground-level crew can be dispatched when necessary, enabling operators to maximize resource allocation, improve operational efficiency, save costs, and enhance safety.
Monitor During Extreme Weather
SAR penetrates clouds, smoke, rain, and darkness, allowing you to monitor critical infrastructure remotely in hard-to-reach terrain or during floods, typhoons, and earthquakes.
Obtaining data quickly during extreme weather or disaster events allows you to focus on-the-ground resources in the right place, helping ensure uninterrupted service and safety.
Detailed Change Detection
SAR persistent monitoring reveals changes in vegetation, construction, settlement encroachment, and more.
With ground subsidence detection capabilities up to 2mm, SAR can assist in identifying even minor issues across large areas of interest.