LiveEO GmbH
World Premiere at InnoTrans: Lightning-Fast Storm Damage Assessment
- This article first appeared in the Railway-News magazine Issue 3 2022.
Climate change requires railway operators to make their networks more resilient and mitigate risks from weather events. If the network is impacted by heavy storms, it is imperative to react swiftly and restore service as quickly as possible. At InnoTrans, LiveEO will showcase its product that identifies storm damage locations in near-real-time, based on satellite data and AI.
This summer has been a wake-up call for many who had taken climate change lightly. An unprecedented heatwave swept over Europe and, in fact, the whole world. 42°C in London convinced many who, if not neglected, did not spend much time and energy on climate activism. The heatwave came almost exactly one year after the most drastic floods central Europe has ever witnessed.
Near-Real-Time Storm Damage Detection
Trees falling on to the tracks or overhead lines during storms are dangerous and costly for railway operators as they cause service interruptions. At InnoTrans 2022, LiveEO will premiere its product for near-real-time damage detection for railway companies at Booth 440 in Hall 7.1A.
The software uses sophisticated change-detection algorithms and imagery from satellites equipped with synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) to detect objects on the tracks following storms automatically. SAR satellites penetrate clouds and rapidly deliver high-resolution data, even in bad weather conditions.
