MGISS, a UK geospatial company, aims to understand how satellite imagery can identify areas where developments could disrupt gas and water supply. The Interruption Prevention Alert Service project will use satellite data and services to automatically detect changes to the built environment in order to prevent outages in critical utilities. The company argued that a “robust, platform-based risk alert service” is needed to ensure disruptions are kept to a minimum, given the anticipated easing of UK planning laws as part of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill. MGISS is heading up the project in collaboration with data partner Geospatial Insight, client partners Northumbrian Water Group and Northern Gas Networks and funding partners ESA and the UK Space Agency. The launch of the pilot project follows a joint workshop with ESA at Northumbrian Water’s 2020 Innovation Festival, and two years of collaboration with NWG and NGN.
