Infrastructure aging is becoming a popular topic since new disasters are reported on the news every day. Consequently, special attention goes to maintenance: reactive or proactive? Quite surprisingly U.S. has been ranked with a C- on the status of its infrastructures by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Only considering roads and bridges, 1 out […]
Read More →This week, I attended the World Water-Tech event in London with Francesco Lacriola, a specialist in EO services for utilities; the hot topic was the energy efficiency and climate resilience for the utility sector. It was exciting to see how water and managers, utility infrastructure managers, and suppliers of various types of technology for utilities […]
Read More →When I started my experience in the Earth observation sector, I had no idea how crucial EO is in protecting our environment, managing our resources, responding to global humanitarian disasters, and enabling sustainable development. It was even more exciting when I came across satellite monitoring services that still allow us to defend one of the […]
Read More →Very often, I am asked, “Is it possible to see a bridge collapse, such as the Morandi bridge from space?” My answer is always the same. Satellite-derived intelligence allows today to move from a single bridge monitored to an entire network of roads and bridges monitored over time. Nowadays, the potential of space data to […]
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