"Persistent monitoring enables a totally new level of strategical decision-making."

One of ICEYE's core missions is to enable our customers to make better decisions - more rapidly and with higher degrees of confidence. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) allows us to observe changes on the Earth's surface day and night and in any weather. However traditional SAR imaging models are only able to capture coherent images of specific locations on a weekly or monthly basis. ICEYE is revolutionizing the frequency with which we can observe and react to changes in near real-time with daily and even sub-daily Persistent Monitoring of any location on the planet. This enables a level of situational awareness and responsiveness that's never been possible before.

The ability to persistently monitor locations is critical in order to detect high-frequency change and respond to events that require a lot of decision-making. For example, monitoring activity at refugee camps to assess whether the infrastructure needs assistance or maintenance. Or monitoring port activity to gain intelligence in the type of vessels that are coming and going. And of course, when it comes to disaster relief, the ability to quickly assess the amount of damage or population impacted is absolutely time-critical. Frequent changes that can happen daily would be entirely missed if you had to wait a week or a month to look again. With ICEYE's ability to persistently monitor locations daily, you're not only improving the capacity to evaluate and respond to situations, but you're also saving costs and potentially even lives.

Persistent Monitoring is the combination of three main elements. High resolution, which is the ability to detect with clarity what's happening on Earth. Revisit rate, which means the frequency with which you can access the point that you're looking at. And global coverage, which is the ability to observe any location on Earth at any time. ICEYE's constellation of small and agile satellites enables us to deliver all three - whenever and wherever our customers need us to.

The dependability of our constellation is something that we care very much about and one of the most important things that our customers expect. They value timeliness, which is essentially the time between when someone says 'I need an image' to when they receive it. Making that time as short as possible requires a combination of amazing innovation in space and on the ground. In space, we have to have a large enough constellation to be able to access every point on Earth at all times and as frequently as possible. Once that image is collected, it's a race to deliver a high-quality product as rapidly as possible. We've proven that we can disseminate an image in under 15 minutes from the time it was collected. That's the power of ICEYE SAR

SAR is not a new technology. But it’s been very siloed and very locked with specific domain expertise at the highest level of government. At ICEYE, we believe there is a unique opportunity to unlock the potential of SAR data by making it more accessible. ICEYE’s ability to persistently monitor the ground and provide quantifiable information with our radar technology means that it’s now open and available for governments, companies, organizations, and people to evaluate and leverage to better serve humanity.

If you look at monitoring volcanic activity, for example, there’s a wealth of science and technology that goes into it, but it’s largely ground-based and often limited to wealthier countries. ICEYE’s ability to collect SAR data on any location at any time provides governments, organizations, and people with unprecedented capabilities to respond to disasters and other events. By creating user-friendly tools and algorithms, we aim to empower people to leverage and use that data to create their own workflows and answer their own questions.