How do pipeline operators focus their resources to inspect right-of-ways across hundreds or even thousands of miles? 

With limited resources, pipeline operators must prioritize segments for routine inspection or after an incident occurs. But how? Traversing the ground by foot or vehicle may be impossible. Flying an aircraft, such as a helicopter or drone, can be too costly or dangerous.

February 2022 marked our launch of the /platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ursa Platform, which unveiled an archive of over /blog/10-million-sar-images-and-counting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 million SAR satellite images available to purchase directly from our site. Today, we’re happy to announce that Platform users now have the ability to task new images for future collection.

Ursa Space’s solution gives customers the ability to monitor global economic trends with data derived from satellite imagery, updated on a weekly basis.

WASHINGTON, D.C – MARCH 23, 2022 - Ursa Space Systems, a global satellite intelligence infrastructure provider, has announced today at the Satellite 2022 conference that Veng, a technology and services company designated by Argentina’s space agency (CONAE) to market SAOCOM imagery, will join its Virtual Constellation.

ITHACA, NY, MARCH 21, 2022 – Ursa Space, the global satellite intelligence infrastructure company, announced the first close of its Series C Round with $16 million in funding led by Dorilton Ventures. Existing investors who participated in the round included Razor’s Edge Ventures, RRE Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, and others.

ITHACA, NY, MARCH 17, 2022 – Global satellite intelligence infrastructure provider, Ursa Space Systems Inc., and 4DV Analytics have partnered to deliver data fusion capabilities in the intelligence domain beyond anything available on the market today.

some forecasters predicting the price of oil could hit $200 a barrel.

On the other hand, there is hope that production increases elsewhere (e.g., US, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran) could offset Russian declines. Or, perhaps, that won’t even be necessary if Russia can still find international buyers willing to buy its oil.

ITHACA, NEW YORK – MARCH 8, 2022 - Customers can now search Ursa Space’s archive of Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite imagery via application programming interface (API) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Exchange.

Gone are the days of long lead times to simply acquire satellite imagery. As of today, users in the Ursa Platform can search, select, and pay for a satellite-derived SAR image, all within our site. Accounts are free to set up, and users only pay for the images they wish to use.

ITHACA, NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 9, 2022 - Ursa Space Systems, a global satellite intelligence infrastructure provider, has announced today that Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ:SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, will join its Virtual Constellation and Partner Network.

If you frequent the /platform">Ursa Platform, you’ve probably noticed our SAR image counter. Each week, this number ticks higher and higher as we receive imagery from around the globe, collected by data partners in our Virtual Constellation.

Today we celebrate an important milestone – exceeding 10 million SAR images in our virtual database. With such a large image database from multiple sources all under one roof, our growing database offers the end-user a one-stop source for all their imagery and tasking needs.

How do you develop a machine learning algorithm to find the construction of new crude oil storage tanks around the world?

In today’s blog, we dig into this question with someone who knows the answer: Michael Allen, data scientist at Ursa Space. Michael’s past work experience in remote sensing (NASA) and his education (PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara) served him well on this technically-demanding project.