Capella Space offers vessel detection as an enrichment to our very high-resolution (VHR) image tasking service for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Customers tasking waterbodies such as ports, anchorages, shipping lanes, channels, canals, rivers, exclusive economic zones, or restricted water areas can automate vessel detection to extract insights from Capella’s imagery products.

Change Detection is a coveted SAR analytic due to the consistent illumination and geographic precision of SAR imaging. Precisely stacking and comparing successive images in time is a versatile analysis approach that reveals many types of large and small changes caused by construction, vehicle movements, changes in material stockpiles, and much more. In the past, change detection required expertise and specialized software for image acquisition, selection, and processing. With Capella’s Change Detection solution, users can easily monitor sites with compatible imagery and rapidly receive an analysis of identified changes.

Imagery analysts and geospatial professionals looking for fast, reliable insights are often challenged by cumbersome image acquisition processes and obscure data. Capella’s automated Change Detection solution and high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data enables these teams to obtain timely, analysis-ready imagery to understand more efficiently what is happening on the ground, day or night, regardless of cloud conditions. Capella was able to use its Change Detection analytic and automated, routine tasking tools to better understand changes that occurred after the Battle of Khartoum in Sudan.