LeveeSat

Across Europe, the catastrophic floods of the Romagna plain, Sicily, the Rhine basin, and the Dutch lowlands share one brutal truth: containment infrastructure such as levees, coastal walls, and sometimes, even dams fails at the arrival of high volumes of water. Yet current civil protection systems deploy satellite data only after inundation has already occurred, to map damage that could no longer be prevented. 

Levee collapse in Bagnacavallo caused Romagna flood in 2024LeveeSat inverts this logic. We deliver an API and an ergonomic web application that continuously monitors levees integrity and issues geo-targeted maintenance alerts long before structural failure, turning reactive disaster response into predictive risk management. 

A structural shift has recently made this possible at scale without the use of localized LIDAR drones. Through the ESA Earthnet programme and the Copernicus Contributing Missions, accessed at no cost via the CSUI contractor framework, projects of public utility, which LeveeSat would qualify for, now gain free access to an expanded constellation of SAR, hyperspectral and high-resolution optical satellite imagery at update frequencies that were unthinkable even five years ago. What was once affordable only for small, restricted study zones can now cover entire river basins and coastlines. This capacity is set to expand further still: the imminent launch of next-generation Copernicus satellites, including CHIME, ROSE-L and LSTM, will dramatically increase the data throughput available to LeveeSat's API, delivering enhanced hyperspectral, L-band SAR and thermal sensing capabilities entirely within the European open-data ecosystem, without any dependence on expensive foreign satellite providers.

Combined with modern AI upscaling applied to publicly available imagery, LeveeSat achieves broad territorial coverage at high spatial resolution, capable of detecting even minimal ground deformation, the earliest measurable signal of structural stress. At particularly critical points, fixed elevated references or corner reflectors provide anchored baselines, removing the ground-noise artefacts that have historically undermined open-terrain SAR tracking, such as high grass.¹

                                                                                   LeveeSat - Know it before it breaks!   

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