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Software, AI, and geospatial systems for problems too large to work by hand.
We design, build, and run production software, AI models, and satellite analysis, from radar imagery to large record collections. Our data is served through an API and an MCP server for AI assistants, and every figure cites its source.
What we do
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Custom software and AI
Production applications and data platforms, custom models trained and evaluated on your data, document and records pipelines, and MCP servers that put your systems inside AI assistants.
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Geospatial and satellite analysis
Radar, optical, thermal, and night-light analysis: change detection, water extent, ground motion from InSAR, burn severity, and outage mapping, with uncertainty stated and every result traced to its scenes.
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Data, API, and MCP
Arctic Open-Water Window 1.1, Western Terminal Lakes 1.1 and Storm Blackout and Restoration 1.2 each have a DOI on Zenodo. Open datasets, licensed data and reports are on a REST API and an MCP server. One free key works for the API and for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Cursor.
Open datasets
Free to download and cite under CC BY 4.0. Paid plans start January 1, 2027. They add higher limits and reports.
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Arctic Open-Water Window
Open-water days each year at 15 fixed gates in the Bering Strait, the Northwest Passage, the Northern Sea Route and Fram Strait, 1978 to 2026.
Version 1.1, 15 gates.
Latest day in the live feed: 22 October 2026. The published version 1.1 ends on 1 October 2026.
Citable copy (Zenodo) · Dataset (Kaggle) · Run the notebook (Kaggle) · Discussion (Kaggle) · Load in Python (Hugging Face)
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Western Terminal Lakes
Monthly open-water area for 19 series on 18 lakes and reservoirs since 2019, with an uncertainty range.
Version 1.1, 19 series on 18 lakes.
Latest gauge reading in the live feed: 24 October 2026. The monthly table in the published version 1.1 covers through September 2026.
Citable copy (Zenodo) · Dataset (Kaggle) · Run the notebook (Kaggle) · Discussion (Kaggle) · Load in Python (Hugging Face)
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Storm Blackout and Restoration
County power outages and restoration for FEMA-declared storms since 2012, from utility records and satellite night light.
Version 1.2, 672 storms.
Citable copy (Zenodo) · Dataset (Kaggle) · Run the notebook (Kaggle) · Discussion (Kaggle) · Load in Python (Hugging Face)
The live feed is newer data from the API. It can change and is not part of the cited version.
- Arctic. Not for navigation. Use at your own risk. Provided as is, without warranty of any kind.
- Lakes. Not for water-rights, legal or engineering decisions.
- Storms. Estimates from public records and satellite night light. Not for real-time emergency response or for any decision about one address or property.
- Data disclaimers
Findings
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Vilkitsky Strait: 6 open days a year then, 83 now
At Vilkitsky Strait, mean open days at the 15 percent ice cutoff rose from 5.8 days a year in 1979-1988 to 82.6 days in 2016-2025 (difference +76.8 days).
Breakdown
For Vilkitsky Strait (nsr-vilkitsky), the mean of open_days_15 on full seasons with a numeric value is 5.8 in 1979-1988 (n=9) and 82.6 in 2016-2025 (n=10). That is a rise of 76.8 days. Seasons with a blank open_days_15 are skipped. An open day is a day when average sea-ice concentration inside the gate polygon sits below the 15 percent cutoff.
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Irma has the largest sum of county outage peaks among these 672 storm events: 8.9 million.
Among these 672 storm events, Irma (AL112017) has the largest sum of county peak customers out: 8,867,374 across 329 counties with a numeric peak. Each county contributes its own peak. Those peaks are not one simultaneous count of customers out.
Breakdown
Summing numeric peak_customers_out for event_id AL112017 gives 8,867,374 across 329 counties. That sum is the largest among the 672 storm events. Each county contributes its own peak. Those peaks are not one simultaneous count of customers out. The next sums are Helene 5,911,300, DR-4586 5,214,663, Ian 3,981,026, and Milton 3,736,269.
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Great Salt Lake's south arm: July open water was 12% lower in 2026 than in July 2019.
Great Salt Lake south arm open-water area fell from 2017.2 km2 in July 2019 to 1770.6 km2 in July 2026 (loss 246.5 km2, 12.2 percent).
Breakdown
For great-salt-lake-south, water_area_km2 is 2017.2 in 2019-07 and 1770.6 in 2026-07. That is a loss of 246.5 km2, or 12.2 percent of the July 2019 area. This compares July 2019 with July 2026. July water_area_km2 values are 2019 2017.2; 2020 1968.7; 2021 1816.8; 2022 1743.3; 2023 1919.5; 2024 1956.3; 2025 1829.1; 2026 1770.6. Low-confidence Julys: none.
What we build
We design, build, and run the systems. Most engagements start with a scoping study and are delivered in stages.
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Software and product engineering
Software packages, internal tools, and web applications, built to be maintained after we hand them over.
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Applied AI
AI features inside working software, with the data preparation and evaluation they depend on.
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Data pipelines and records analytics
Structured datasets built from federal and state records and other large sources, with every record traceable to where it came from.
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Remote sensing and radar
We can set up scheduled checks on sites and regions from public satellite imagery, processed in-house.
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Research and innovation intelligence
Structured data on research funding, patents, and technology programs for teams looking for partners or opportunities.
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Scientific and cultural data
Tools that turn collections, archives, and specialist records into standardized data researchers can search and reuse.
Examples of our work
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Track published federal environmental-review milestones
Notices and milestone dates from the federal systems that publish environmental reviews, and where schedules slip, with each field linked to its source.
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Watch places change over years
Several years of satellite imagery over documented sites, compared against the records.
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Measure power outages and recovery after storms
County by county: customers out and hours to restore from utility outage records, with satellite night-light recovery alongside.
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Licensed data
Site screening evidence, the federal review milestone feed, portfolio monitoring, and water observation histories are planned.
Recently published
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Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, 2017 and 2025
Late-summer true-color views from 2017 and 2025 show the North Aral, the western and eastern basins, and the exposed seabed between them.
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Gemini Solar, Clark County, Nevada, April 2020 and May 2024
The same 20 by 11 km frame in 2020 and 2024 records the construction of a 690-megawatt solar plant on open desert northeast of Las Vegas.
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Ilulissat Icefjord and Disko Bay, Greenland, August 2024 to October 2025
Thirty-eight Sentinel-1 passes at a twelve-day interval record icebergs leaving the icefjord, the freeze and break-up of Disko Bay, and the seasonal advance and retreat of sea ice over fifteen months.
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