CyStellarSatellite Risk Dashboards, Bilbao Fire Service & Roof AI

CyStellar is a space-tech company, based in London with an office in Sweden, whose platform, TerraRisk, turns satellite Earth observation, weather forecasts and hazard data into risk insights for insurers, and helps public agencies detect and monitor risks. I joined as a front-end intern from July to December 2022 and worked on three things. The first was CyStellar's internal dashboard, putting geospatial and environmental data on interactive maps and charts. The second was CyStellar's project for the City of Bilbao in Spain, run through REACH, an EU Horizon 2020 incubator. Bilbao City Council, which runs the city's fire brigade, wanted to size and deploy its firefighter teams better, using its history of mobilisations, interventions and emergencies alongside weather alerts, city events and points of interest. CyStellar's answer was a cloud geospatial platform that forecasts whether each type of emergency will rise or fall over the next 15 days, with a dashboard for the fire service's managers. The third was machine learning: training models to classify the roof materials of houses across Europe from satellite imagery. CyStellar's internal tools aren't public, so the platform images here are CyStellar's own, alongside photos of Bilbao.