Mike Rawitch
July 31, 2023
How satellites are helping legacy landowners
Across the USA, there are over 40,000 large tracts of land requiring careful management to clean up hazardous waste including heavy metals, hydrocarbons, and other organic chemicals. Known also as superfund sites or legacy land sites, these sites can be both dangerous and hazardous. Additionally, these sites require maintenance to prevent land deterioration.
- Key information can be missed
- Subtle land changes are hard to identify and often noticed too late
- Parts of land are missed altogether because they are too remote to access
- In pandemic situations, like COVID-19, field operations are at a standstill
- Inspect archive data to show trends in the landscape from a bird’s-eye perspective
- Remotely capture data across an area and quantitatively measure how the landscape changes
- Measure and understand how tracts of land change over time regarding vegetation parameters
- Make more holistic, accurate, and data-driven decisions in a timely manner