"The dream has always been to monitor the entire globe continuously."

The globe has always been on the move, but until now we haven't been able to capture the changes happening before our eyes. Our large constellation of small SAR satellites enables the world's first persistent monitoring of any location on Earth, daily and even sub-daily. We can have hundreds of locations imaged every 12, 8, or even 4 hours. And we can get that data set delivered continuously. This enables millimeter-level change detection, where we can see things from space that you wouldn't be able to see standing on the ground.

SAR satellites have been around for a long time, but they've been too large and costly to be accessible to all. We see our technology as an enabler. It's a sensor ecosystem – a data set that we're enabling people and organizations across the globe to harness. You can think of it a bit like GPS or the internet, which were both originally limited in terms of access and today are virtually impossible to live without. ICEYE SAR data is a unique tool that offers tremendous value to governments, environmental organizations, disaster response teams, the insurance industry, businesses, and ultimately everyone.

Until now, satellite data has been able to tell us the objective truth about events on Earth on a global scale, but it lacked the timeliness and reliability needed to monitor things like subtle changes or human activity. If you're monitoring on time scales of weeks, predicting or responding to things like natural disasters can be difficult, if not impossible. That's why we wanted to offer Coherent Ground Track Repeat. And we wanted to make it daily.

ICEYE'S constellation of small NewSpace satellites is designed to rapidly revisit any area on the globe, enabling repeating ground track image acquisition from the same exact location – every 24 hours or less. If you can go from a scale of weeks to a day or even hours, for the first time, you can potentially predict things like floods, avalanches, forest fires, volcano eruptions or massive earthquakes before they happen. And when they do happen, you can respond to them in record time, saving effort, money and – most importantly – lives.