Critical Infrastructure Monitoring Coming soon

Corridor monitoring is the responsibility of many organizations owning a pathway along significant stretches, most of which have Right of Way (ROW) over their corridor. Critical site monitoring has a similar responsibility over a large number of isolated installations.

Corridor operators include:

• Railroads
• Highways
• Water authorities
• Electricity transmission
• Gas and oil pipelines
• Rivers
• Fiber-optic cables

Critical site operators include:

• Seaports and airports
• Communication operators like cellular
• Electricity sub-stations
• Military camps, airfields, seaports and other installations

All of these operators have a need and often obligations to monitor and handle a wide range of changes at or near the locations they are responsible for, including:

• New construction (often not theirs and illegal)
• Vegetation encroachment
• Floods
• Fires (active or recent) and fire hazards (such as dry vegetation)
• Rock and mud slides
• Erosion and washouts
• Third-party excavation and digging
• New unauthorized access roads and tracks
• Leaks and spills (water, oil)
• Illegal tapping and fuel theft
• Illegal dumping
• Sand encroachment (desert roads and railways)

Some of these, such as new construction, are flagged automatically; for the others, EarthToDate's frequent, up-to-date imagery lets you inspect your corridors and sites yourself, as often as you need.

Not supported at this time:

• Automatic detection of illegal dumping, sand encroachment, new access tracks, fuel theft and leaks (planned)
• Not feasible with this data: ground subsidence, buried pipe condition, conductor clearance height, events under cloud, tower faults, real-time intrusion and pipeline methane

The leading cause of pipeline failures is third-party interference — unauthorized digging, construction and machinery on the right-of-way. EarthToDate New Construction Detection flags new buildings, and its land preparation class catches clearing and grading, often the earliest warning before a dig. Separating greenhouses keeps farm plastic from being mistaken for encroachment where corridors cross farmland.

For power lines, vegetation growing into the conductor clearance zone is a leading cause of outages and wildfire ignition (regulated in the US under NERC FAC-003). EarthToDate flags where vegetation is present and growing; the clearance height itself needs LiDAR or stereo imagery.

Limits: optical imagery sees surface signs only — not buried-pipe condition or millimetre-scale ground motion, which need radar interferometry (InSAR) — and a dig opened and backfilled between passes can be missed. Slow threats such as regrowth, equipment staging, erosion and creeping encroachment are where continuous screening is strongest.