GroundPulse turns NASA and ESA radar into a movement rate for every bridge, pipeline segment, and roadway mile you own — updated every satellite pass, ranked so you know where to look first.
Inclinometers, tiltmeters, and GNSS stations are per-location investments once you count drilling, access, power, and telemetry. You can only instrument the risks you already know about.
GroundPulse processes Sentinel-1 radar into displacement across your asset footprint wherever the radar holds coherence — every revisit, not just the points you instrumented. Low-coherence areas are flagged, not filled.
Traditional providers charge $100K+ per project, take weeks, and require radar science expertise.
We process satellite data, join it to your assets, calculate risk scores, and deliver alerts. No remote sensing expertise needed.
Network-wide displacement screening with NBI asset context and NBIS between-inspection prioritization. Built and exercised against five monitoring corridors in the Montana state bridge inventory — 1,297 structures with displacement observations.
PHMSA-aligned geohazard screening across right-of-way corridors. Segment-level ranking, displacement history, quality scoring, and pipeline-specific risk rules.
Corridor and district-level displacement monitoring for highway and roadway networks. Geohazard classification, cut/fill context, and district dashboards.
We can already load dams as monitored assets and measure displacement at them. The dam-specific dashboard and reports are still being designed. Aimed at high-hazard private dams and small hydro under FERC.
Transmission and distribution, ports, and rail embankments are next in line. We build the one an operator asks for first. There is no fixed roadmap.
Directors of integrity management at interstate gas, oil, and NGL operators with PHMSA-regulated mileage and right-of-way exposure. The pipeline module runs today on a live Permian corridor as a demonstration tenant. We have no operators under contract yet, and we'll say so on the call.
Geotechnical, bridge, roadway, and maintenance teams prioritizing field review between inspection cycles. The bridge and roadway modules are available to demo today, aimed at safety triage between inspections, defensible spending decisions, and grant evidence packages.
Dam safety officers and FERC-compliance leads at industrial dam owners and independent hydro operators. We haven't built the dam module yet. A portfolio and a FERC deadline is what starts it.
Transmission and distribution engineering directors and asset reliability managers at investor-owned utilities and large public power authorities. Transmission is next in line, not built. If you want it first, say so.
Sentinel-1 images most of the continental US every 12 days, and every 6 where two tracks overlap. GroundPulse turns that radar into a continuous movement record across your whole footprint — not just the points you instrumented. We confirm the actual cadence over your assets during onboarding.
We join those measurements to your assets — bridge structures, pipeline segments, roadway corridors, dam crests — and run the risk rules for that asset type. Seasonal movement is scored separately from trend. Every measurement carries a confidence score and a record of how it was produced.
You get alerts when something moves, the history to defend a decision months later, and exports your engineers and inspectors will actually open. Report templates align to PHMSA integrity-management evidence and 23 CFR 650 bridge prioritization.
C-band radar decorrelates over dense vegetation, snow, and ground that moves too fast between passes. Forested slopes — where a lot of pipeline geohazard risk actually sits — are where coverage thins first. We flag low-coherence areas rather than interpolating across them.
Rates are measured against a local reference, so read the gradient across your asset, not the absolute sign of a single number. Where you need an absolute datum, we tie to continuous GNSS.
Centimetre-class relative line-of-sight and vertical measurement; roughly 9 mm RMSE per epoch against GPS; 8–10 mm/yr (1σ) velocity on about two years of stacked observations. Precision improves with stack length and coherence, and we report it per asset rather than as one headline figure.
This layer tells you where to look next. It does not replace inspection, in-line inspection, or survey, and it is not an engineering assessment of cause. In API RP 1187 terms it is Level 1 — it feeds Level 2, it doesn't substitute for it.
| Traditional InSAR Consultants | Generic InSAR Platforms | GroundPulse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first insight | Weeks to months | Days (manual interpretation) | Hours |
| Asset-specific risk scores | Custom, one-time | Not included | Automated, continuous |
| Regulatory reports | Manual, extra cost | Not included | Pre-filled PHMSA drafts |
| Radar expertise required | No (outsourced) | Yes | No |
| Continuous monitoring | Project-based | Manual refresh | Automatic updates |
| Cost | $100K–$665K per project1 | Not published | From $5/mi/mo or $2/bridge/mo, plus platform fee2 |
1 Range of federal InSAR analysis awards on USASpending.gov. 2 Volume pricing to $1.25/mi/mo above 10,000 miles. Full schedule on request.
GroundPulse is built by Ryan Morton in Missoula, Montana. Every displacement number carries a confidence score, explicit reason codes, and full processing lineage, and the method is validated against GNSS ground truth with a frozen backtest protocol. Morton Analytics is pre-revenue and taking on its first operators — early users get direct access to the person who built the system.
Under 49 CFR 192.613(c), after an extreme weather event or natural disaster likely to damage a pipeline through surrounding-soil or pipeline movement, an operator must inspect all potentially affected onshore transmission facilities. The inspection must commence within 72 hours only after the operator reasonably determines the area can be safely accessed and the required personnel and equipment are available. GroundPulse can screen corridors to help prioritize field review; it is not the required inspection and does not establish legal compliance.
PHMSA's April 2026 NPRM (91 FR 22107) proposes adding satellite methods to 192.705(c) and 195.412(a) for right-of-way patrols. Comments closed in June 2026; no final rule yet. Operators building the evidence record now are ahead of it.
FY2023 Bridge Formula Program apportionments lapse 30 September 2026 under 23 U.S.C. 118(b); later tranches run through 2029. Displacement evidence strengthens formula prioritization and competitive Bridge Investment Program applications by showing active movement, not just condition ratings.
Under FAR subpart 19.8, eligible 8(a) participants may receive federal sole-source awards. For acquisitions other than manufacturing, $5.5 million is the current threshold above which competition is generally required; it is not an automatic award ceiling or entitlement. Each award requires SBA acceptance, current participant eligibility, contractor responsibility, and a fair-market price. SBA explains the federal program and current thresholds. State and local procurement uses its own authority, not the federal 8(a) program.
Assessment-pinned bridge screening generated from a correlated Dolphin terminal artifact, with its public evidence limitations preserved.
Pipeline geohazard screening generated from tenant-scoped Dolphin evidence and published with the correlated PMTiles archive.
Roadway screening generated from a ready Dolphin product, with no-data behavior and exact map provenance retained.
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Tell us your corridor, bridge inventory, or roadway network and we'll walk you through what displacement screening shows for it. No obligation, no credit card.