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Image Collection:

Spatial Energy provides geospatial services using remote sensing imagery from QuickBird, Ikonos, LandSat, SPOT, TerraSAR-X, MODIS, ASTER satellites, and from digital aerial cameras such as the UltraCam, ADS40, and DMC. In addition to multi-spectral imagery from the above sources, Spatial Energy provides digital elevation data (DEM) derived from LIDAR data, UltraCam, and other sources.

Imagery is available on demand from our extensive data archives, by tasking satellites/aerial providers, and by speculative collection. Spatial Energy has established preferred relationships with the leading data providers and can thus select the best source(s) to meet your particular application. In addition, programs such as the Spatial Energy Partner Program (EPP), R-Watch, and Spatial On Demand provide simplified, cost effective access to imagery.

Imagery Services Analysis and Processing

Geospatial Data Analysis & Image Processing Services

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Additional Info Spatial Energy provides premium image collection, geospatial data analysis and image processing services for the Oil & Gas industry. Our advanced services integrate various technologies, including remote sensing, GIS, GPS, and CAD. Solely focused on the oil and gas industry, Spatial Energy brings vast experience and knowledge to efficiently and cost effectively meet the imagery needs of companies operating worldwide.

Geospatial Data Analysis

Spatial Energy’s extensive offering of spatial data analysis services focus primarily on hydrocarbon detection, feature extraction, and change detection. Additional services include land/marine oil seep detection, and structural geological analysis - e.g., rock/soil identification, regional structure/fault identification.

Hydrocarbon Detection

Land Exploration
Hydrocarbons seeping from micro fractures typically result in surface anomalies manifested as changes in soil brightness and vegetation health. Certain portions of electro magnetic spectrum in the visible and infrared regions can be used to effectively identify these surface anomalies and locate the hydrocarbon seepages via hydrocarbon mapping.

Marine Exploration
High resolution satellite, radar (SAR/SLAR) and UV imagers can detect the presence of oil seeps and will show the geographic extents of the oil seep.

Hydrocarbons cause amplitude effects in the seismic data and the trace of the oil and gas venting from the seabed. Natural oil slicks can be directly correlated to seabed cores and 3D seismic data. Spatial Energy uses a combination of imagery sources (e.g., Landsat, QuickBird, and Ikonos) and analysis techniques for hydrocarbon detection.

Multi-spectral data also can be used to map large oil-slicks that occur offshore due to leaks from oil drilling platforms, pipelines, or accidental ship discharges.

Image Feature Extraction
State-of-the-art image segmentation and classification techniques are used for image feature extraction. Features that can be extracted from imagery include facilities (e.g., building foot prints), transportation features, land use/land cover, vegetation types (agriculture, forest types), disturbed features due to exploration activities, water bodies, oil spills in water, soil types, and more. Additional services include the extraction of contours, hillshades, and slope/aspect from DTM data.

Image Change Detection
Spatial Energy offers change detection services on user specific features for monitoring and quantifying changes over time, using temporal sequence of imagery. Change detection can be used for variety of applications, such as the monitoring of facilities, quantification of revegitation activities in disturbed areas, monitoring the movement of oil spills (land and sea), monitoring pipeline encroachment, and monitoring of changes in ice/snow extent.

Additional image processing services include data fusion (pan sharpening), band manipulation (clipping, tiling, subsetting, 16 bit to 8 bit conversion, etc.), data conversion (e.g., GeoTIFF to JPEG), image registration, and data editing - editing of vector as well as raster data).

Image Processing and Orthorectification
Spatial Energy provides premium image processing services, including simple image mosaicing, orthorectification using GCP's and digital elevation models (DEMs), and image fusion. Digital orthophotos are appropriate for seismic survey planning, pipeline routing, facilities monitoring, or any application that requires high accuracy terrain-corrected imagery. Imagery resolutions range from one foot to greater than 1 meter. Second generation orthorectification ensures that data collected at different times is registered to a basemap

Change Detection
Spatial Energy offers change detection services on user specific features for monitoring and quantifying changes over time, using temporal sequence of imagery. Change detection can be used for variety of applications, such as the monitoring of facilities, quantification of revegitation activities in disturbed areas, monitoring the movement of oil spills (land and sea), monitoring pipeline encroachment, and monitoring of changes in ice/snow extent.

Additional image processing services include data fusion (pan sharpening), band manipulation (clipping, tiling, subsetting, 16 bit to 8 bit conversion, etc.), data conversion (e.g., GeoTIFF to JPEG), image registration, and data editing - editing of vector as well as raster data).

Image Processing
Spatial Energy provides premium image processing services, including simple image mosaicing, orthorectification using GCP's and digital elevation models (DEMs), and image fusion. Digital orthophotos are appropriate for seismic survey planning, pipeline routing, facilities monitoring, or any application that requires high accuracy terrain-corrected imagery. Imagery resolutions range from one foot to greater than 1 meter. Second generation orthorectification ensures that data collected at different times is registered to a basemap.

Additional Information on Spatial Data Analysis Services
Spatial Energy is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive suite of imagery solutions and geospatial data and image processing services for oil and gas companies operating worldwide. For additional information regarding our services (offered on an annual contract basis or daily rate), please contact us via phone or email.

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