Geospatial Data Scientist | EO Data Scientist | Remote Sensing Engineer

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Geospatial Intelligence for Rapid Disaster Response

As a remote sensing and geospatial specialist at ICEYE, I worked across two of the company’s flagship catastrophe response solutions—Hurricane Rapid Impact and Wildfire Insights. These products enable insurance and emergency response sectors to detect, assess, and act on disaster impact within hours using ICEYE’s proprietary SAR satellite constellation.

In both projects, I delivered high-resolution raster-based geospatial insights, designed and executed change detection workflows, and generated scalable hexgrid summaries for real-time situational awareness.

Hurricane Rapid Impact

In the Hurricane product, I built raster processing chains that translated raw multi-temporal SAR data into wind-induced damage footprints. These outputs were used to triage claims, assess building damage, and direct emergency responders during critical post-landfall hours.

My Contributions:

SAR-based Raster Workflows: Developed and optimized multi-temporal raster analytics to detect structural changes in hurricane paths at 30 m resolution.
Hexgrid-Based Summaries: Aggregated spatial damage estimates into hexgrids to support scalable risk assessments and GIS integration.
Disaster Data Pipelines: Collaborated with cross-functional teams to automate raster product delivery, reducing time-to-insight for operational users

Wildfire Insights

For ICEYE’s wildfire product, I contributed to near real-time building-level damage classification by integrating SAR-based change detection with structural footprint databases. This helped insurers identify destroyed or undamaged structures even in areas obscured by smoke or cloud cover.

My Contributions

Binary Structural Classification: Supported modeling of destroyed vs. undamaged structures within fire perimeters using SAR-based raster maps.
Quality Control Pipelines: Refined damage detection algorithms to ensure high accuracy and reduce false positives.
Spatial Analytics Integration: Delivered clean geospatial outputs compatible with Esri-based dashboards and insurance risk models.

Cross-Domain Impact

This experience strengthened my expertise in:

Remote Sensing & SAR Analytics: From raw image calibration to thematic product generation.
GIS & Spatial Data Engineering: Raster tiling, hexgrid binning, and vector-raster fusion.
Data Science for Earth Observation: Structuring, automating, and scaling geospatial data pipelines for real-world use cases.

Whether for disaster response or broader EO applications, my work demonstrates the ability to derive actionable insights from complex SAR datasets and transform them into deployable products that inform decisions at scale.

Additional Resources:

Offcial Page: ICEYE Hurricane Solution

ICEYE Hurricane Solution Overview

Answering Key Questions on the Hurricane Solution

ICEYE Wildfire Insights

Webinar: Wildfire Monitoring with ICEYE

ICEYE Wildfire Insights

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Rapid Structural Damage Mapping During Wildfire Events

At ICEYE, I helped advance the Wildfire Insights solution by applying SAR remote sensing and geospatial science expertise to develop building-level damage detection tools. This solution supports insurers with verified damage data within 24 hours of wildfire impact—independent of weather or daylight conditions.

Using ICEYE’s X-band SAR constellation, I worked on SAR-based change detection techniques to identify structural loss across fire-affected zones. My contributions included algorithm tuning for urban infrastructure detection, post-classification processing, and integrating the results with geospatial vector formats for seamless decision support.

My Contributions:

Remote Sensing Expertise: Built Remote Sensing-based (SAR) workflows for detecting and classifying structural loss in wildfire zones.
Geospatial Science:
- Helped calibrate damage detection thresholds across diverse terrains and settlement types
- Delivered vector-based outputs (point and polygon layers) for operational insurance workflows.
Data Analytics & Geospatial Scince: Collaborated on integrating outputs into Esri-based dashboards for real-time situational awareness.

Product Features:

Building-level binary classification of ‘destroyed’ vs. ‘undamaged’ within hours of fire containment.
Actionable vector outputs ready for ingestion by GIS teams and insurers.
ESRI wildfire monitoring dashboard combining SAR results, fire perimeters, hotspots, and urban exposure layers.
Consistent insights across multiple wildfire events regardless of smoke or cloud cover.

ICEYE’s Wildfire Insights enables insurers and emergency response teams to make timely, data-driven decisions without waiting for aerial or optical validation.

Additional Resources:

Official Link: Wildfire Insights ICEYE Oy

Revolutionizing Wildfire Monitoring with ICEYE’s SAR Technology

10 Burning Questions About Rapid Building-Level Damage Detection

Webinar: Introducing ICEYE Wildfire Insights

Wildfire Response | Udit Asopa

Geospatial Data Scientist | EO Data Scientist | Remote Sensing Engineer

Geospatial Intelligence for Rapid Disaster Response

Hurricane Rapid Impact

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Wildfire Insights

My Contributions

Cross-Domain Impact

ICEYE Wildfire Insights

Rapid Structural Damage Mapping During Wildfire Events

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