Synspective Inc., a leading provider of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data and analytics solutions, is pleased to announce its partnership with Spectee Inc., a provider of AI-powered real-time disaster and crisis management information services. The partnership will advance disaster response capabilities by integrating the companies’ complementary inundation analysis technologies to achieve more detailed and accurate damage assessments.
Background and Purpose of the Partnership
Climate change has led to more severe and frequent natural disasters worldwide, resulting in increased damage from flooding. Quickly and accurately assessing the full extent of damage is crucial for saving lives and enabling rapid recovery efforts during a disaster.
Synspective provides flood damage analysis solutions by observing wide areas of the Earth’s surface with its StriX SAR satellites, which can operate 24 hours a day regardless of weather or time of day. Meanwhile, Spectee uses AI technology to extract disaster and crisis management information from social media in real-time, analyzing and visualizing the location and extent of damage as it unfolds.
However, SAR satellite observation alone has limitations in capturing localized and detailed damage situations, particularly in densely populated urban areas with complex building structures. To address this challenge, the partnership combines the “eye in the sky” perspective of SAR satellites for broad-area observation with “eyes on the ground” social media information for specific, real-time insights from affected communities.
Collaboration Overview
The collaboration will integrate wide-area inundation data from Synspective’s SAR satellites with on-the-ground damage information collected and analyzed by Spectee from social media, including flood depth and conditions derived from images, videos, and text. By cross-referencing inundation analysis results from both companies, the partnership aims to create more accurate and reality-based inundation damage maps. This will supplement information in areas where SAR satellites face technical limitations, such as densely populated residential areas where building structures can obscure satellite-based damage assessment.
About Spectee Inc.
Spectee visualizes risks by aggregating and analyzing data from social media, camera footage, sensors, weather parameters, and traffic updates. Spectee introduces Spectee Pro, a disaster prevention and crisis management solution adopted by most governmental entities and private companies in Japan, as well as Spectee Supply Chain Resilience, a supply chain risk management service. The company leverages the same technology to provide a UGC newswire, empowering reporters and publishers around the world.
https://www.spectee.com/
About Synspective Inc.
Synspective Inc., founded in 2018, develops and operates Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites and provides SAR data and analytics solutions. We aim to develop a constellation of 30 SAR satellites by the late 2020s, allowing us to create a new system that can observe changes anywhere on Earth. With a SAR satellite constellation that enables high-frequency and high-resolution Earth observation, Synspective delivers satellite data and various analytics solutions for disaster response and management, national security, and environmental monitoring.
https://synspective.com/