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High-resolution commercial satellite imagery, digital elevation models (DEMs) and multiband analytics across every Australian and global mine site - from exploration tenure to rehabilitation sign-off.
The problem
Exploration teams, operators, compliance and boards all work from different evidence. Drone surveys, ad-hoc aerial flights and fragmented site visits produce uneven records that don’t scale across a portfolio.
The Terrabit approach
Terrabit gives every team the same dataset. Analysis-ready commercial optical imagery, digital elevation models and multiband analytics - colour-balanced, orthorectified to control, atmospherically corrected and pansharpened, delivered straight into your geographic information system (GIS) workflows or access store via our Albatross platform. One source of truth from exploration tenure to rehabilitation sign-off.
Lifecycle
Three pillars - each matched to the sensors, cadence and analytics that actually answer the question.
01
Analysis-ready multispectral and high-resolution optical imagery to map alteration signatures and prioritise ground programmes. Specialised hyperspectral coverage available where deeper mineral discrimination is needed.
02
Scheduled optical change detection for haul roads and infrastructure, and digitisation layers - colour-balanced, orthorectified and delivered straight into your GIS.
03
Multiband vegetation indices - NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), EVI (Enhanced Vegetation Index) and SAVI (Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index) - over multi-year time-series to quantify rehabilitation recovery and support environmental, social and governance (ESG) evidence aligned to Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) reporting.
Where mining evidence tends to break
Drone, aerial and ground surveys produce inconsistent records across assets - nothing stacks into a single portfolio view.
Change on pits, stockpiles and tailings is caught after the fact, not during the weeks it develops.
Evidence packs for regulators, insurers and boards take weeks to assemble from scattered, non-reproducible sources.
Vegetation recovery is surveyed sporadically, making multi-year compliance claims hard to defend under audit.
High-resolution commercial optical, pansharpened and atmospherically corrected for asset-level detail.
Stereo-derived digital surface models for pit and stockpile volumetrics.
Priority tasking through to scheduled archive - same area, same provenance, every capture.
Analysis-ready data (ARD) - colour-balanced, orthorectified to control, mosaicked and ATCOR-corrected - direct support to ArcGIS, QGIS, S3, SFTP or Albatross.
Optical imagery
Stockpile reshape
Volume change, material movement and infill between capture dates.
Haul-road progression
New alignments, widening and maintenance cycles across the site.
Infrastructure build-out
Conveyor, pad, process-plant and accommodation-camp change.
Environmental encroachment
Vegetation disturbance and water encroachment.
Capabilities
Multispectral and high-resolution optical imagery across tenure scale, with hyperspectral coverage where alteration mineralogy needs deeper discrimination. Archive stacks plus targeted new tasks - all delivered colour-balanced and atmospherically corrected - narrow ground programmes to the highest-probability copper, gold, lithium and rare-earth targets.
Scheduled optical imagery helps to support change detection for haul roads, infrastructure, encroachment and disturbance. Paired with feature extraction, it refreshes base maps and digitises assets on site into GIS-ready layers your team already knows how to consume.
Multiband vegetation indices - NDVI, EVI and SAVI - derived from open-data multispectral archive and high-resolution multispectral capture quantify vegetation recovery against regulatory baselines across years, not site visits.
Timestamped evidence to support ESG and regulatory reporting that aligns to TCFD, ICMM, GRI and JORC 2026. Every capture is attributable, retained and reproducible - so the imagery that runs operations is the same imagery that answers your regulator, your insurer and your board.
Optical change detection on a routine cadence for high-wall, tailings and infrastructure - with all-weather radar available where geotechnical questions require ground-deformation measurement between inspections.
In the data
High-resolution optical · WorldView-Legion
Optical · mine site high-res
Stereo-derived · 0.5m DSM
Elevation · pit & stockpile volumetrics
NDVI · Sentinel-2 · Mt Kinahan WA
NDVI · WA environmental monitoring
Data & methods
Every capture is colour-balanced, orthorectified to control, atmospherically corrected, pansharpened and mosaicked - so the imagery slots straight into your operational workflow. Specialised data follows where the question requires it.
How it works
Same pipeline. Same provenance. Every site, every stage.
Platform
Coordinate analysis-ready imagery, DEM and specialised data tasking across every site and stakeholder - with centralised budget controls, reporting archives and multi-user access.
Albatross gives mining operators enterprise-grade order management for analysis-ready satellite imagery, DEMs and multiband analytics across the full lifecycle. Submit tasking, approve budgets, track deliveries and maintain a defensible audit trail through a single platform built for distributed mining portfolios.
Products
Products
Analysis-ready optical and multispectral commercial imagery - colour-balanced, orthorectified, pansharpened and atmospherically corrected - for exploration, operations, digitisation and rehabilitation.
Products
DEM, DSM and DTM products from 0.5m to 5m resolution for stockpile and pit volumetrics, haul and drainage planning, site design and ground baselines.
See how analysis-ready optical imagery, DEMs and multiband analytics come together on your sites - colour-balanced, orthorectified and ready to slot into your operational workflow.