Powering utility management with AI
Streamline asset management and risk mitigation with location intelligence.
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By building the foundation of your design using a single source of truth, you improve stakeholder alignment throughout the lifecycle of the project.
Our location intelligence is refreshed frequently, captures 7,080 suburbs and over 225,000 unique km. each year, and can be overlayed with 130+ AI-powered feature detections. It provides comprehensive ground truth for millions of sites nationwide.
Being able to access this accurate data from a central hub saves time and costs as the team runs on the same insights — driving more proactive and efficient asset and risk management.
Leading location intelligence
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Keep services flowing with AI-powered water management
Australia is the driest inhabited continent, and managing water resources is critical. placing significant pressure on coastal water resources.
These pressures are continuously exasperated by the rapid rate of urban sprawl and the increasing frequency and severity of flood events. In the first 5 months of 2024 alone, Nearmap ImpactResponse captured 15 floods.
It may therefore be unsurprising that approximately 30% of Australia’s waterways are considered to be in poor or very poor health, largely due to pollution, salinity, and altered flow regimes.
Nearmap AI insights reveal permeable and non permeable surfaces, building footprints, different levels of vegetation, and more, in seconds. Overlaid on our detailed aerial imagery that is updated several times a year in urban areas and is backed by an archive of 15+ years of historical content, Nearmap AI enables more efficient visualisation of change over time. Identification of risk without the need for multiple costly and time consuming site visits.
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Flood risk assessment and mitigation
Identify areas with low permeability where surface runoff is likely to occur to prevent damage to infrastructure and reduce strain on water resources.
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Water quality management
Identify areas where surface runoff can carry pollutants into water bodies, to manage and mitigate the risk of water pollution. Find erosion-prone areas to determine where to strategically plant or preserve vegetation.
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Water resource management
Spot areas with high permeability that can lead to groundwater recharge, to reduce the strain on surface water sources during dry periods.
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Water resource management
Spot areas with high permeability that can lead to groundwater recharge, to reduce the strain on surface water sources during dry periods.
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Regulatory compliance
Make decisions based on current and accurate data to maintain regulatory compliance and demonstrate sustainable practices.
Melbourne Water improves stream health with AI
Melbourne Water manages water supply, sewerage, and drainage systems across the greater Melbourne region, serving a population of over five million. It uses Nearmap to monitor urban development in priority areas over time to help protect stream-dependent species such as the platypus.
Nearmap is helping Melbourne Water monitor urban development in priority areas over time. Nearmap AI data layers can automate the identification of impervious and pervious surfaces on new and historic surveys to improve the efficiency, accuracy and speed of analysis of Melbourne Water’s impervious surface mapping.
Melbourne Water links its Habitat Suitability Modelling to a prioritisation tool called Zonation, to determine where best to invest to revegetate waterways and to reduce imperviousness over the next 10 years.
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The Habitat Suitability Models (HSMs) coupled with Zonation identify habitat benefits for platypus, macroinvertebrates, and native fish. Melbourne Water also uses Nearmap AI to monitor streamside vegetation over time to understand revegetation efforts and to identify areas of streamside clearing.
Nearmap AI will help determine the strategy’s effectiveness in protecting and improving waterways, particularly with respect to preventing waterways from declining in urban growth areas. It will also be used to track how impervious surface areas are increasing outside of priority areas through activities such as infill development.
With access to Nearmap imagery, the Melbourne Water team can also consider how location intelligence can be used to help maintain awareness of issues in the landscape such as the density and size of farm dams and their associated changes over time.
“It was formerly taking years to get quite an average product; now with the Nearmap data we’ve got it down to a couple of months for a quality product – it’s been transformative for us.”
Read full storyCutting down on bushfire risk with AI-power asset maintenance
Poorly managed corridors can lead to increased bushfire risks, which not only threaten lives and property but also cause extensive environmental damage. During the 2019-2020 bushfire season, numerous outages were reported due to vegetation related incidents, affecting tens of thousands of customers and disrupting essential services.
Electrical operators often manage hundreds or thousands of kilometres of rights of way (ROW), making for a massive number of vegetation units to assess and plan to cut for every season and presents a significant challenge for operators who have limited resources. Inadequate corridor management leading to bushfires or other incidents not only has severe ramifications for the surrounding environment and communities, it also carries significant financial liability furthering the importance of overcoming this challenge.
Nearmap vegetation modelling for fire risk assessments content is a powerful tool to estimate and optimise cutting programs by accurately forecasting requirements. Frequent recapture rates provide auditing of programs on a set cadence, and cutting efforts can be efficiently audited at a higher frequency and lower cost than LiDAR.
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Corridor management
Identify vegetation and buildings that are underneath or too close to overhead assets, such as power lines, which may present a safety or fire hazard, and compromise compliance.
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Hazard identification
Detect types of vegetation that are more prone to catching fire (high vs low, woody, leaf-off), to enable more targeted vegetation management strategies.
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Emergency response planning
Assess areas with dense vegetation that may pose a higher fire risk and understanding past incidents with historical imagery to support emergency response teams and inform disaster preparation plans.
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Regulatory compliance
Monitor vegetation encroachment to ensure fire safety regulations are met (maintaining clearances, reducing fire fuel loads in utility corridors) and documenting vegetation management practices.
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Encroachment monitoring
Identify where trees overlap with other assets such as buildings or electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure.
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Use case spotlight
Corridor management
AI-powered corridor management is a powerful risk mitigation tool beyond above-ground vegetation monitoring for fire prevention. With the right data, you can identify buildings that may have been constructed over underground assets, or potential sites of vegetation root encroachment, which may compromise the condition of the underground asset or hamper access for preventative maintenance works.
Our data, your workflows
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MapBrowser
Our web-based mapping software gives you control and insight, whenever you need it:
Search and explore any area of interest by address, latitude/longitude, or with a direct URL, right within your browser.
Enhance your understanding by using rectangle, circle, or polygon tools to intuitively measure imagery for your project – then annotate with notes, markers or arrows to keep your team in the know.
Increase team productivity by storing and sharing all your project work across team members
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Integrations and APIs
Pair leading data and imagery with your asset management tools and platforms of choice to:
Analyse and use information your way – export Nearmap Vertical and 3D data in just seconds in a format recognised by your preferred GIS applications such as TUFLOW, 12d, ArcGIS, and more.
Ensure you’re always working with the latest data by using Nearmap APIs to seamlessly consume current Nearmap imagery and data in with your workflows
“Having that level of information before you actually do that first site visit is really important; it’s just so revealing, it’s like being on site, it takes it to another level.”
Read blog post“By integrating current, high- resolution, geo-referenced Nearmap imagery with our core GIS and AutoCAD technologies, we can rectify errors in our GIS, produce more accurate designs, and locate infrastructure including power poles and streetlights.”
Read full storyHow Nearmap AI helps utilities succeed
Accurately understand change over time to assets and the surrounding environment
Reveal risk factors and property features in seconds with 130+ AI detections
Maintain regulatory compliance with an accurate and insight-rich view of your entire net
