The Atlantic season 2020 has now officially come to a close with a record-breaking 30 named storms, of which 6 developed into major hurricanes. The season began earlier than expected with Tropical Storm Arthur forming in mid-May and closed with major Hurricane Iota last month.
On August 4th 2020 a vast mushroom cloud hung over the city of Beirut, created by a colossal explosion in the city’s port. With nearly 200 people dead, and over 6,000 injured, this has now been classified as one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history, caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a dock-side warehouse.
Since Hurricane Ike, technology has evolved to help insurers improve their insight into the risk and costs associated with natural disasters and respond quicker and more efficiently.
Visual Intelligence by Geospatial Insight provides insurers, loss adjusters and brokers with improved capabilities to monitor, analyse and respond to risk. We are leveraging innovations in drone, satellite and aerial imagery and combining this with artificial intelligence expertise to revolutionise the insurance sector.
Last year, we released a Youtube video on the collapse and possible causes of the Fundão Dam, visible and accessible courtesy of satellite imagery.
Sophisticated imagery technology is giving companies and insurers unprecedented access to real-time data and situation awareness to protect assets and drive effective crisis response. Dave Fox of Geospatial Insight explains.
Following the destruction brought by the recent extensive flooding in Nebraska and Iowa in the Mid-West of the USA during March 2019, this case study illustrates the typical data, imagery and analytics products that Geospatial Insight offer as part of the CAT Response Service…
1. Respond rapidly to individual and widespread claims 2. Access remote and dangerous locations 3. Provides both broad-area and specific property-level information 4. Assess multiple claims before loss adjusters
We are often asked exactly what it is we do here at Geospatial Insight! So, we thought we’d take the new year as an opportunity to explain the who, why, how and where of what we do
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