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Bering Strait · 65.8°N 169.0°W · Radar · Nov 2024 → Jul 2025Great Salt Lake, Utah · 41.1°N 112.5°W · Optical · 2018 → 2025Lake Poopó, Bolivia · 18.8°S 67.0°W · Optical · 2017 → 2025Okavango Delta, Botswana · 19.5°S 23.0°E · Optical · Apr → Sep 2024Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan · 45.4°N 59.8°E · Optical · 2017 → 2025

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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.

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Satellite radar and optical imagery · 2017 → 2025

What we do

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.

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Open datasets

Free to download and cite under CC BY 4.0. Paid plans start January 1, 2027. They add higher limits and reports.

  1. Published

    Bar charts of open-water days per year at four Arctic gates, 1979 to 2025.

    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.

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    Version 1.1, 15 gates.

    Latest day in the live feed: 22 October 2026. The published version 1.1 ends on 1 October 2026.

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  2. Published

    Great Salt Lake south arm, July 2026, Sentinel-2 preview.

    Western Terminal Lakes

    Monthly open-water area for 19 series on 18 lakes and reservoirs since 2019, with an uncertainty range.

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    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.

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  3. Published

    Step chart of night-light recovery in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

    Storm Blackout and Restoration

    County power outages and restoration for FEMA-declared storms since 2012, from utility records and satellite night light.

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    Version 1.2, 672 storms.

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The live feed is newer data from the API. It can change and is not part of the cited version.

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Findings

  1. 76.8 days Finding

    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).

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    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.

  2. 8,867,374 Finding

    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.

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    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.

  3. 246.5 km2 Finding

    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).

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    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.

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What we build

We design, build, and run the systems. Most engagements start with a scoping study and are delivered in stages.

  1. Software and product engineering

    Software packages, internal tools, and web applications, built to be maintained after we hand them over.

  2. Applied AI

    AI features inside working software, with the data preparation and evaluation they depend on.

  3. 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.

  4. Remote sensing and radar

    We can set up scheduled checks on sites and regions from public satellite imagery, processed in-house.

  5. Research and innovation intelligence

    Structured data on research funding, patents, and technology programs for teams looking for partners or opportunities.

  6. Scientific and cultural data

    Tools that turn collections, archives, and specialist records into standardized data researchers can search and reuse.

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Examples of our work

  1. Data system Planned

    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.

  2. Monitoring Planned

    Watch places change over years

    Several years of satellite imagery over documented sites, compared against the records.

  3. Recovery

    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.

  4. Licensed data

    Licensed data

    Site screening evidence, the federal review milestone feed, portfolio monitoring, and water observation histories are planned.

Recently published

  1. Observation

    Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, 2017 and 2025

    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.

  2. Observation

    Gemini Solar, Clark County, Nevada, April 2020 and May 2024

    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.

  3. Observation

    Ilulissat Icefjord and Disko Bay, Greenland, August 2024 to October 2025

    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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