SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP WITH InSAR SUSTAINABILITY
DEMONSTRATE SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP BY INFORMING YOUR OPERATIONS WITH InSAR
Putting an InSAR strategy in place offers a strong value basis for improving your sustainability initiatives. Carefully deploying satellite-based data, translating it into insights and integrating it into your asset models will directly help you reduce emissions and capital goods materials use.
InSAR-derived insights help deliver implicit savings that can support other sustainability initiatives by improving the economics of asset monitoring. And importantly, an InSAR strategy provides tangible evidence of sustainability leadership.
SkyGeo’s Sustainability Services
Infrastructure asset maintenance optimization and asset lifecycle extension.
Underground storage: CO2 injection supervision and storage monitoring.
Wide area assessment of climate adaptation initiatives’ impact.
Predictive modelling of long term trends for long term policy decision support and planning.
Natural hazard assessment and predictive modelling of effect on infrastructure.
Geotechnical and operational safety monitoring of wind, solar and geothermal assets.
Closure and end-of-life monitoring of mines and tailings storage facilities.
Water resource management in oil and gas operations.
Build better climate impact resilience
From extended drought periods to intense rainfall to heat waves, climate-related extreme weather continues to take a toll on public and private infrastructure. This trend is often acting on aging infrastructure. InSAR based assessment can provide rapid insights into areas that are most vulnerable.
Combined with iterative processing and a complete feedback loop, we can support risk based asset monitoring for improving climate adaptation.
Strengthen your social license to operate
Companies building on the surface or operating in the sub-surface need to show to the public that they have a firm grip on the risks associated with their operations. The public wants to see that they can trust operators to preserve and protect the existing environment.
Operators are creating long walls, building complex structures or injecting liquids under high pressure, and doing many other potentially impactful works; frequent satellite-based monitoring is an effective wide area tool for showing a hand-on-the-tap approach. You can enhance your case in order to strengthen your social license to operate.
Effectively monitor carbon capture and storage operations
As large scale storage solutions of CO2 are being developed, injection of CO2 into depleted reservoirs and shallow dip angle saline aquifers remains only partially understood and characterized. Operators and customers alike need effective and cost-efficient solutions for monitoring the CO2 plume.
InSAR will be able to support effective monitoring in a subset of the CCS deployments throughout the lifecycle: for site selection and pre-production stability assessment, for characterizing additional risk in operations such as unstable or leaking wellbores. During the injection phase, we can monitor for plume evolution and assess conformance against the inverted reservoir model, in order to make sure that CO2 does not go into pore space that was not leased. Plan for the long term by periodic assessment of long term asset integrity and loss of containment.
Show sustainable leadership by using low carbon data
Increasingly, investors and consumers alike are seeking products and services from companies that are actively reducing carbon emissions, adopting renewable energy, and stewarding the environment.
SkyGeo works with dozens of public entities and private companies to support their corporate sustainability goals by improving their asset monitoring and surveying as a business process that has a near-zero carbon footprint itself and is complementary to high carbon footprint business processes. Assessing satellite data does not require travel and boots on the ground for surveying or complex instrumentation to be installed.
Get in front of the trends in the energy industry
Climate concerns and renewables deployment are transforming the energy landscape. Wind and solar farms, as well as geothermal sites are coming online at record speed, reducing overall reliance on fossil fuels and supporting sustainability goals.
All these new types of constructions need to be operated for the long term, so geotechnical stability and long term asset integrity are key outcomes. SkyGeo works with third parties and integrates their data for key inputs and decision support for long term geotechnically stable operations.
Fine-tune high carbon asset maintenance work
Remote sensing over wide areas can help rationalize asset maintenance for many types of industry.
By accelerating maintenance where risk is high, obviously risk is mitigated effectively – but also identifying where maintenance can safely be postponed, high carbon footprint work can be minimized over time.
Public access to our data
In order to make InSAR over wide areas available to a wide audience, we have initiated several initiatives to make application agnostic, wide area data available to the general public.
Based on feedback on our initiatives, we keep updating this data set; also we are growing the area over which we make this data available. If your area is not covered today come back and check later to see if it has been added, or contact us.
Frequently Asked Questions
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InSAR provides wide-area, time‑series visibility of surface deformation across an entire mine site—including pits, dumps, and tailings facilities. When interpreted correctly, it helps identify where movement is changing over time so teams can prioritise inspection, monitoring resources, and mitigation planning.
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InSAR can help characterise and quantify deformation trends across TSFs and surrounding ground, supporting early awareness and prioritisation. Because TSFs are high‑consequence assets, results should be interpreted by specialists and integrated with site monitoring and geotechnical context to support safe decisions.
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Early warning means identifying abnormal movement patterns or changes in trend early enough to trigger closer review or additional on‑site investigation. Practical early warning depends on a site‑specific framework: baselines, thresholds, and expert interpretation—not a single universal number or map.
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Data-only outputs can be easy to misread, especially in complex mine environments. SkyGeo combines InSAR data with geotechnical domain expertise, quality controls, and interpretation workflows to translate measurements into clear, risk‑aware insight that supports decisions and safe operations.
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Satellite monitoring supports TSF safety programmes by providing consistent, independent observations of deformation patterns over time. It helps demonstrate due diligence, supports audit trails, and can highlight trends that warrant closer investigation. Importantly, TSF risk management depends on interpretation—understanding what movement is expected, what is abnormal, and how change relates to site conditions and operational actions. Satellite monitoring is most effective when it sits within a governance framework: thresholds, responsibilities, validation steps, and clear escalation pathways.
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Satellite monitoring can identify deformation trends that may indicate changing conditions, but it should not be treated as a simple ‘failure prediction’ tool. Tailings failures are complex and often depend on multiple interacting factors. The responsible use of satellite data is as an early-warning and screening layer: detect change, assess trend behaviour and uncertainty, then investigate with engineering judgement and complementary monitoring. Overconfidence in raw data outputs can be dangerous; decision-grade insight requires expert validation and context.
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Typical parameters include displacement over time (time-series), velocity (rate of movement), acceleration (change in rate), and spatial patterns such as differential movement across the structure and its surroundings. Context matters: movement direction relative to the dam geometry, correlation with operational changes, and consistency across measurement points. Monitoring programmes also track uncertainty and data quality so interpretation remains reliable. The aim is not to ‘collect points’, but to detect meaningful change early and support clear escalation decisions.
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