Measurement.Not Detection.
SAR satellite measurements converted to legally defensible compliance records for midstream pipeline operators.
Optical imagery is not a compliance system.
Ground patrol misses conditions between passes. Optical satellites cloud-block and generate high false alarm rates. Neither produces a record that holds under federal review.
Uncertainty, not signal.
Conventional optical monitoring triggers alerts on shadows, seasonal vegetation, and atmospheric artifacts. Each response is a dispatched crew and a billable hour that proves nothing.
The corridor does not pause.
Ground patrol and aerial survey depend on weather, crew availability, and route access. A third-party encroachment can be established and active before the next scheduled pass.
A log is not a record.
A spreadsheet of patrol dates and a folder of photos is not a compliance record. PHMSA auditors recognize the difference. So does opposing counsel.
SAR measures. It does not photograph.
Synthetic aperture radar penetrates cloud cover, operates day and night, and measures surface displacement at centimeter precision. It does not interpret the corridor. It reads it.
The output is a compliance record. Not an alert. Not a detection. A timestamped, georeferenced measurement that stands on its own in a regulatory proceeding.
- Sensor
- Synthetic aperture radar
- Resolution
- Sub-meter
- Revisit
- Scheduled cadence
- Coverage
- All weather, day/night
- Output
- Calibrated backscatter data
The door just opened.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration formally recognized satellite imagery as a valid method for right-of-way patrol compliance. For the first time, a remote sensing record can satisfy federal inspection requirements.
Aerolant is the infrastructure built for that recognition. Not a general-purpose satellite platform adapted to pipelines. Compliance infrastructure, designed to the specification of the rule.
Acquisition. Analysis. Record.
Acquisition
SAR satellites pass over your designated corridor on a scheduled cadence. Each pass captures calibrated backscatter data at sub-meter resolution, regardless of weather or time of day.
Analysis
Aerolant processes each SAR pass against your established corridor baseline. Surface changes, encroachments, and anomalies are measured against physical parameters, not flagged by pattern matching.
Compliance Record
Each processed pass generates a timestamped, georeferenced compliance record. Formatted for PHMSA documentation. Archived. Legally defensible.
A record the auditor recognizes.
A spreadsheet of patrol dates is not a compliance record. A SAR measurement is. Each pass generates a timestamped, georeferenced artifact tied to calibrated backscatter data. That is what holds under federal review.
Every record is archived and formatted to PHMSA documentation standards. Ready on the day of the request, not assembled after the fact.
- Acquisition
- Synthetic aperture radar
- Weather dependency
- None
- Lighting requirement
- None — active sensor
- Measurement type
- Calibrated backscatter
- Output
- Timestamped, georeferenced record
- Regulatory anchor
- PHMSA 49 CFR Part 195
Built for operators who cannot afford uncertainty.
Operators managing 200+ miles of corridor. We respond within one business day.