Earth observation: a radar satellite’s swath crossing real relief, the downlink to a ground station. The loop, step by step: 1. A satellite, a station and a valley below. 2. Sensor, link, edge and console stand ready. 3. A radar satellite rises and sweeps its swath. 4. Instruments confirm the response took effect. 5. The swath images the valley floor. 6. Each reading is stamped with time and place. 7. The data is downlinked to the ground station. 8. The relay forwards sealed packets untouched. 9. The edge verifies every signature first. 10. Processing turns echoes into a displacement map. 11. Only a confirmed result leaves the edge. 12. The product is delivered to the customer. 13. The console shows the evidence with the alert. 14. A subscriber sees the change since last pass. 15. Instruments confirm the response took effect. 16. Record, proof and action are archived together. 17. Everything settles back to idle.
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Earth observation & GeoAIGround-segment downlink and processing at the edge, drone and imagery campaigns planned to the ground sample distance, site twins measured in 3D, and GeoAI trained and checked against field truth, with the source and licence of every layer in view.
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The ground, measured and modelled
Earth observation & GeoAI combines ground-segment downlink and processing at the edge, drone and imagery campaigns planned to the ground sample distance, 3D site twins, and GeoAI trained and checked against field truth. Every layer carries its source and licence, so a user can see exactly what it was made from and how far it can be trusted.
সমস্যা
Images without ground truth
Satellite and drone imagery cover the land, but a model trained without field truth confidently maps the wrong thing. Earth observation is only as good as the measurements it is checked against. Every map that looks precise but has never been checked on the ground is a risk passed on to whoever relies on it.
Key facts
- আয়োজনের ধরন
- CCSDS downlink · Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF · STAC catalogues
- Metadata
- STAC · ISO 19115
Components
- ISR quadcopter with a docking station
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Eddy-covariance flux tower
- Bioacoustic recorder on a tree
- Private LTE mast on a solar skid
- “AI tower in a box”
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
Interfaces
- Radio
- LTE / 5G · Wi-Fi
- Time and position
- GNSS / RTK
Where it works
- Campaigns planned to the resolution needed
- The site, measured in 3D
- Downlink and process at the edge
- Layers with their sources in view
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
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Images without ground truth
Satellite and drone imagery cover the land, but a model trained without field truth confidently maps the wrong thing. Earth observation is only as good as the measurements it is checked against. Every map that looks precise but has never been checked on the ground is a risk passed on to whoever relies on it.
What it does
The ground, measured and modelled
Earth observation & GeoAI combines ground-segment downlink and processing at the edge, drone and imagery campaigns planned to the ground sample distance, 3D site twins, and GeoAI trained and checked against field truth. Every layer carries its source and licence, so a user can see exactly what it was made from and how far it can be trusted.
Drones and imagery
Campaigns planned to the resolution needed
Drone flights are planned to the ground sample distance the question needs, with ground control and repeatable routes, so two campaigns months apart can be compared pixel for pixel. Every flight follows a written plan, and its imagery is checked against ground control before it is used.
See Drones and imageryThe system
One station, part by part
Before anything is installed, the station is laid out as its parts: instrument, logger and edge compute, secure element, GNSS timing, radio, power, enclosure, wiring, earthing, mast and foundation.
Assembly
Built and tested before it ships
Each part is fitted to the pole and the enclosure, wired through surge protection to one earth, powered and bench-tested until it signs its first reading.
Installation
Installed on site
The crew arrives with the tested kit: foundation, mast raised and guyed, instruments mounted, cables run in conduit, the enclosure fitted out and the site commissioned.
Deployment
Site after site, one design
The same station goes in at every site on the plan, each commissioned against the same checklist, until the field is covered.
Wiring
Signal, power and time, wired
Inside one site the instrument’s signal pair runs to the logger, solar charges the battery that feeds the load, GNSS time reaches the clock and the logger hands its records to the radio.
Site twins
The site, measured in 3D
Photogrammetry and lidar produce twins measured to scale, used to plan installations, measure change and brief crews before they travel. The twin becomes the shared reference for engineers, crews and owners, and is updated when the site changes. Twins are repeated on a schedule, so change between two dates can be measured rather than guessed.
See Site twinsConnections
Backhaul, time and power
The relay carries every site to the edge over a point-to-point link, the grandmaster’s time reaches every clock, and each site keeps its power through the night.
Ground segment
Downlink and process at the edge
Passes are received at a ground station and processed beside it, so analysis-ready products leave instead of raw downlinks. Each scene keeps its acquisition, processing and licence history. Processing beside the antenna means less data on the wire and products ready sooner after each pass.
- আয়োজনের ধরন
- CCSDS downlink · Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF · STAC catalogues
এটি কীভাবে কাজ করে
Field truth beside every model
Ground stations measure what the imagery infers: temperature, moisture, fluxes, species. GeoAI models are trained and validated against those measurements, and their error is published with the product. Ground truth is collected on a schedule and under a written protocol, so validation is repeatable year after year.
GeoAI
Models checked against field truth
Every model has a validation report against independent field data, a version and a licence. When the field changes, the model is re-evaluated before its next product ships. Accuracy is reported per product and per area, so a user knows where the model is strong and where it is weak.
See GeoAIপণ্য
Layers with their sources in view
Products are catalogued with STAC and ISO 19115 metadata, so every layer shows its sources, its licence and its accuracy before anyone builds on it. Licences and sources are visible before download, so nobody builds on a layer they are not allowed to use.
- Metadata
- STAC · ISO 19115
Operations
Tasking, capture and processing, scheduled
Requests for imagery are scheduled against passes, weather and drone crews; processing queues and delivery promises are visible in one console. Requests, passes and flights are tracked to delivery, so a user knows when the product they need will arrive.
How it scales
From one site to a continent
The same pipeline runs for one survey or a national programme: more passes, more campaigns and more ground stations feed the same catalogue, and products are tiled and versioned as coverage grows. A national programme is many local campaigns run to one method, with one catalogue and one quality standard.
What you get
Campaigns and twins, under contract
The observatories atlas, the world grid and map sources with licences are open. Capture campaigns and site twins are contracted, with products delivered into your own systems. Products are delivered under the licence each source allows, with residency fixed by contract where needed.
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Plan a campaign
Tell us the area, the question and the resolution you need. We plan the campaign, the ground truth and the products. The plan states the coverage, the revisit and the validation the products will carry, and the products are delivered to your own systems under the licence each source allows.
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment Studio
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Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.
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Use case Methane fenceline observatoryUse case Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoringISIC section · ISIC E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activitiesUse case Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weatherExplainers
Explainer · Industrial IndustrialBlast vibration at the pit, fire weather at the grid edge, methane at the fenceline and tailings movement from GNSS.Explainer · Environment and climate Environment and climate — SectorsMethane fencelines, acoustic biodiversity grids, flux towers, river sondes and smoke networks: an interactive explainer with the method behind every number.Stories
Story · AI weather and geospatial foundation models Models that learned the atmosphereIn three years, machine-learned weather models went from research papers to operations. They learned from decades of reanalysis, which means they inherit…Story · Ocean The ocean below the surfaceMost of the ocean’s heat lies below what satellites can see. Profiling floats drifting at depth and surfacing to report have measured it routinely since the…Story · LPWAN and mesh Kilometres on a coin cellMost environmental sensors send a few bytes a few times an hour. Low-power wide-area networks trade bandwidth for range and battery life; mesh networks…Places and networks
Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Offshore and oceanA moored met-ocean buoy and a profiling float report through a satellite pass overhead; the red link is the uplink.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Mountain valley siteA private 5G tower, an automatic weather station, a compact radar and a seismic vault on real alpine terrain, joined to an edge data centre that admits, times and publishes every…Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Arctic stationA self-powered station on the ice: a microgrid, a low-orbit satellite terminal, a weather station, a GNSS monument and an edge node that holds data through the polar night.Network scene · Private 5G · Port Private 5G at a container portSmall cells on the yard lighting masts and a sector site on the operations building serve remote-controlled cranes and trucks among steel container stacks.Network scene · Private 5G · Mining Private 5G in an open-pit mineA private network for haul trucks, drills and slope radar: a mast on the rim, a cell in the pit, the core at the plant, and coverage computed over the benches themselves.Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · World ocean · 1999 Argo profiling float arrayAbout four thousand small robots drift through the oceans, sinking to 2,000 metres every ten days and rising to report temperature and salinity by satellite.Heritage observatory · Australia · 1976 KennaookOn the north-west tip of Tasmania, air arrives after crossing thousands of kilometres of the Southern Ocean.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Plan a site Field Deployment StudioTerrain, devices, coverage, viewshed, power and the best spot for a station, then a deployment request with the plan attached.01 · What this platform covers
Earth observation & GeoAI, area by area.
Choose an area for its systems, standards, the industries it serves and how we deliver it.
01Ground segment
Downlink and process at the edge.02Drones and imagery
Campaigns planned to the ground sample distance.03Site twins
The site, measured in 3D, to scale.04GeoAI
Models trained and checked against field truth.02 · Built on the open protocol
One protocol under every platform.
Marked: the functions this platform leans on hardest. The protocol itself is open, so what you build here runs anywhere the protocol runs.
01 JOIN
02 ADMIT
03 DESCRIBE
04 TIME
05 OBSERVE
06 QUALIFY
07 FEDERATE
08 ORCHESTRATE
03 · Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open layer lives on the main site, free to use and build on. Enterprise services are delivered under contract by Nexus Observatory Inc.
Open, on the main site
- Observatories atlas
- World grid
- Map sources with licences
Enterprise, on this site
- Capture campaigns
- Site twins
04 · Industries served
The industries that build on earth observation & GeoAI.
Each industry has its own site: its use cases, its community and the enterprise path, with this platform among the systems behind it.
শিল্প নগরThe city, measured block by block.শিল্প Civil resilienceInfrastructure that reports before it fails.শিল্প মানবিকObservation where the need is greatest and the grid is thinnest.শিল্প জলবায়ুThe atmosphere, observed to the standard science needs.শিল্প পানিEvery catchment, gauged.শিল্প প্রকৃতিHabitat, measured without disturbing it.শিল্প মহাসাগরFrom the coastline to the open ocean.শিল্প কৃষিFarm decisions on measured ground.শিল্প জ্বালানিThe grid edge, observed.শিল্প TelecomTowers that compute, sense and connect.শিল্প TransportCorridors that report their own conditions.শিল্প অবকাঠামোAssets that report their own condition.শিল্প MiningThe mine, measured from pit to tailings.শিল্প শিল্পPlants and ports, sensed and connected.শিল্প গবেষণাInstruments for science, run like infrastructure.শিল্প Insurance and financeIndependent measurements for risk transfer.05 · Every platform
Every platform, one architecture.
One platform for each technical area of our work, on the same protocol, the same data and the same design.
Protocol & GridSoftwareHardware & powerSensors & instrumentsConnectivityEdge compute & AIEarth observation & GeoAIField servicesData & licensingSpace and satellite systemsPositioning, navigation and timingSecurity and trustDigital twins and simulationDesign and integrationTest and qualificationOperations centreTraining and enablementFrontier labsBring us the site.
We bring the survey, the design and the crew. Nexus Observatory Inc. The form names who receives your details.
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