Problem
Atmospheric pollutants like methane accelerate climate change, harm health, and cost companies billions of dollars. Managing emissions and tracking pollutants comprehensively in the dynamic atmosphere isn't possible with a single type of sensor.
Mission
Scepter is on a mission to revolutionize atmospheric intelligence with a global, real-time, multi-sensor data fusion approach, enabling companies and governments to manage emissions, enhance regulatory compliance, and achieve environmental goals.
Solution
Sensor and Data Flexibility
Scepter's proprietary advanced geospatial data fusion platform ScepterAir captures data from a global network of sensors - satellites, aircraft, stratospheric platforms, drones/UAVs, and terrestrial sensor networks - to offer a tailored, multi-tiered, multi-scale atmospheric monitoring system that provides comprehensive worldwide atmospheric intelligence in hours rather than days.
Comprehensive Coverage
ScepterAir leverages public and private multi-sensor data to provide granular, global monitoring of climate gasses and criteria pollutants. Scepter enhances its data coverage with proprietary sensors aboard aircraft, High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPs), and, in the future, its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation for a high-fidelity, high-resolution near-real-time view of atmospheric pollutants worldwide.
Actionable Insights
ScepterAir captures data from the ground-, air-, and space, and intelligently merges and normalizes this multi-scale, multi-dimensional data to enable analysis and visualization of the dynamic vertical air column. Leveraging advanced data fusion, machine learning, and visualization tools, ScepterAir delivers timely and actionable insights on pollutant emissions, air quality, and, when fused with ancillary data, bespoke data products and indices.
Environmental Stewardship
ScepterAir fuses and analyzes multi-scale, multi-dimensional data on pollutants like methane, carbon dioxide, particulate matter, and other criteria pollutants, helping companies, governments, and civil society understand and address pollutant sources and impacts. By quickly detecting emissions with Scepter, companies can proactively manage their environmental footprint.
Cost Savings
ScepterAir helps companies to detect emissions at scale globally so they can find and fix them before regulatory and reputational risks escalate. Multi-sensor data ingestion and fusion capabilities increase actionable insights while reducing data collection and management costs, and ScepterAir simplifies compliance with data-driven environmental standards while protecting sensitive industry data.
Technology
Scepter offers an unparalleled approach to atmospheric intelligence by integrating multi-platform, multi-sensor data across scales into one centralized, comprehensive high-resolution visualization of atmospheric pollutants - climate gasses and criteria pollutants - in the dynamic vertical air column.
ScepterAir
Scepter's data fusion platform, ScepterAir, quickly integrates and processes multi-sensor, multi-pollutant data, providing actionable insights in minutes or hours - not days. ScepterAir incorporates data from satellites, drones, planes, and terrestrial & IoT sensor networks, both public and private, and ancillary data to provide targeted, context-rich insights on pollutant emissions and transport pathways. Powered by AWS, it is designed to be flexible and secure, increasing utility while providing proprietary data enhanced intelligence for customers, including those in the Oil and Gas industry focused on methane emissions management.
Satellite Constellation
While ScepterAir integrates data from public and private geostationary and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites, Scepter plans to substantially augment its geospatial and temporal observational coverage and drive down data latency with its own constellation - the first and only commercial high-resolution, high-fidelity space-based system to simultaneously measure climate gasses and criteria pollutants. Combined with ScepterAir, this constellation will deliver real-time, comprehensive, and actionable intelligence to significantly enhance environmental monitoring, compliance and situational awareness capabilities for organizations worldwide.
High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPs) and Aircraft
Scepter's proprietary sensing technology includes support for aircraft and high-altitude pseudo-satellite platforms (HAPs) in the form of stratospheric balloons. HAPs are capable of monitoring continuously throughout the day over a targeted region while aircraft can provide regional surveys, both offshore and onshore. Scepter's HAPs system, the first to provide comprehensive regional methane monitoring via stratospheric balloons, complements its satellite-based data to enable a powerful regional monitoring network that can precisely discern pollution sources and transport paths in minutes. Aircraft surveys, in particular, enhance offshore viewing capabilities and frequencies.
3rd Party Aircraft, Drones/UAVs, and Terrestrial Sensors
ScepterAir integrates data from the ground to the lower atmosphere by ingesting customer-provided and publicly available data from aircraft, drones/UAVs, and terrestrial sensor and IoT networks. Its highly scalable and secure architecture - powered by AWS - help customers safely enhance their atmospheric intelligence with trusted proprietary data.
Team
Philip is an entrepreneur, engineer and business leader with a proven track record across satellite technology, renewable energy, and infrastructure spaces. He co-founded ProtoStar Ltd, provider of satellite direct-to-TV operations in Asia and started his career as a satellite structures and composite materials engineer for Hughes Space & Communications and the Naval Research Laboratory. Philip holds an MBA from Stanford and a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Gary is an engineering leader with 33 years of experience in satellite systems technology spanning design to operations. He has held key managerial and technical positions with satellite companies including British Aerospace, Loral, MDA SSL, and ProtoStar, Ltd. Gary holds an MS in Engineering Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology, a graduate diploma from the Open University, and a BS in electrical engineering from Hatfield Polytechnic.
Dan Smith has worked in engineering for over two decades, holding high-level managerial and technical positions in geospatial companies such as MDA Information Systems and Digital Globe. He has managed day-to-day operational and system needs, led the integration of new sensors, and led the engineering of ground systems. Dan holds a BS from Colorado State University with a minor in Geospatial Information Systems.
Sophie Grinevald is a finance executive with over 15 years of experience in project finance and international business development for infrastructure. She has served as a senior finance executive for public and investor-owned utilities, renewable energy infrastructure development companies, and ProtoStar Limited. She has BS and MS degrees in Finance from the University of La Sorbonne, Paris and an MBA from San Francisco State University.
Cynthia Randles is an environmental scientist with over 20 years of research experience for institutions such as NOAA, NASA, and the UN Environment Program. She also spent 6 years as a climate science and methane sensing technology advisor at a super-major Oil and Gas company. She holds a Ph. D and MA in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University and a BS in atmospheric science from MIT.
Peter is a software engineer, architect, and scientific data engineer with a focus on scientific data collection and 'big data' networks. He has architected and engineered software for Raytheon, Cal Tech, and Vertum Partners. Peter has a MS in Ocean Engineering from the University of Hawaii and a BS in Marine Biology from the University of California, San Diego.
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