Seascape Intelligence provides precision ocean monitoring and space-enabled search and rescue technology. The company develops passive, electronics-free radar reflectors that make people and vessels detectable from space, alongside satellite data analytics for maritime intelligence. Their technology is designed to locate people lost at sea even when conventional systems like EPIRBs fail.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
When someone is lost at sea, the odds are already against them. Most life rafts are invisible to radar, and when an EPIRB fails or isn't on board, the search starts blind. Small wooden or plastic boats, and especially unpowered life rafts, have minimal radar cross-section and are virtually invisible to both marine radar and satellite imaging systems.
Solution
Seascape Intelligence provides passive, electronics-free reflectors that make people detectable from space with nothing to fail. The company transforms satellite radar data into precise intelligence on sea surface conditions, environmental change, and maritime activity. In collaboration with Defence Science & Technology and the University of Auckland, they create foldable, low-cost marine radar reflectors engineered for high visibility in space-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Paired with AI detection algorithms, they automate and enhance search operations using satellite data at a significantly higher success rate and lower cost than current approaches.
Target Audience
Primary customers are search and rescue organizations, defence forces, and maritime industries that need to locate people lost at sea or monitor ocean conditions and maritime activity.
Features
- Passive, electronics-free radar reflectors with nothing to fail, engineered for high visibility in space-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery
- Foldable, low-cost design for easy deployment and carriage on life rafts and small vessels
- AI detection algorithms that automate and enhance search operations using satellite data
- Satellite data analytics platform that transforms radar data into intelligence on sea surface conditions, environmental change, and maritime activity
- Tested successfully in land-based trials and sub-Antarctic evaluations with New Zealand Defence Force