Insights
12/19/25

Bringing Earth Science Into Sharper Focus: What 2025 Taught Us

2025 was a big year for Cambio Earth™—not just in features shipped, but in how our purpose crystallized.

2025 was a big year for Cambio Earth™—not just in features shipped, but in how our purpose crystallized.

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know our roots: helping engineers and geoscientists understand the subtle, often slow-moving threats beneath us—landslides, soil movement, changing hydrology, evolving terrain. For years, Cambio™ was known primarily as a geohazard platform.

This past year, we stepped into something bigger: a more integrated understanding of how earth systems interact with the infrastructure we depend on. It’s a timely shift, as climate extremes and aging assets place increasing demands on already-stretched teams.

Across pipelines, transportation corridors, energy systems, tailings facilities, and community infrastructure, teams used Cambio to make decisions with more confidence, less guesswork, and fewer late-night spreadsheet acrobatics.

Understanding Instrumentation in Context: The Year Site Monitoring Became Real

This year, we took a major leap: integrating instrumentation directly into Cambio.

Across industries, teams were wrestling with the same issues:

  • Sensor data scattered across loggers, emails, spreadsheets
  • Separating the noise from the signal to understand what is really happening
  • Responding quickly to sensors going outside of defined thresholds 

So we built something better—centralized, instrument-agnostic, geospatial, and simple to validate. It quickly became the backbone of a stronger Integrated Site Monitoring offering: instrumentation + remote sensing + inspections + weather + subsurface site data, all speaking the same language, all living in the same place.

With the addition of instrumentation, our customers felt way more confident they weren’t missing critical signals.

Expanding the View: Deeper Appreciation of Remote Sensing Data

2025 also reminded us how much value gets unlocked when lidar, InSAR, drone imagery, and designs aren’t siloed. More teams began connecting:

  • observed surface change
  • instrument behavior
  • designs, as-builts, and construction progress
  • climate-driven events

…without digging through folder labyrinths or guessing which version of a surface was the latest. Remote sensing is often the first sign of how a site is evolving, but only when it’s easy to compare with what’s happening in the subsurface.

We remain committed to ensuring remote sensing becomes less of a “specialist workflow” and more of a daily operational tool—something everyone on a project can use, not just the GIS gurus.

And Then Construction Data Came Into Focus

Earthworks. Material compliance. Foundation approvals. Field tests. Photos. QC/QA programs.
In every industry—from mining to rail to energy—construction data is the unsung hero of risk management.

This year, we brought it into Cambio in a structured, traceable, spatially coherent way.

Not for the sake of digitization.
But to help our customers to build new, more resilient earthworks and geotechnical construction projects faster, safer, and most importantly, set them up for long-term stewardship. 

2025 was the year our construction material compliance workflows matured into something teams could trust at scale. So the same tool they rely on to monitor and manage their infrastructure and earthworks, they can use to build them in a way that will last for decades through whatever climate throws our way. 

Looking Ahead: 2026 Will Be the Year of AI-Strengthened Geohazard & Asset Management

With a science-first mindset, our expanding Cambio™ platform — bolstered by our Cambio Earth AI & Data Services — is poised to move beyond detection, into anticipation, insight, and smarter asset management. For operators managing pipelines, roads, rail, energy lines, tailings facilities, or community infrastructure — AI-powered risk screening will help prioritize inspections, flag sites for immediate attention, and rationalize maintenance budgets based on data-backed probability and consequence.

Automated Detection & Early Warning — at Scale
Our machine learning workflows are already rapidly processing dense remote-sensing datasets (e.g. lidar, InSAR) to flag landslides, erosion, settlement, and other subtle terrain changes—often before traditional analysis can catch them. 

From Data to Decision-Ready Intelligence
We’ll continue to fuse sensor data, remote-sensing, climate signals, and inspection history — then apply advanced analytics, machine learning, and probabilistic models to produce risk-informed, actionable insight, not just raw data dumps. 

In short — 2026 marks the shift from drowning in data and manually hunting for hazards to automating hazard identification and prioritization so nothing slips through the cracks. With machine learning + engineering insight + robust data, Cambio Earth aims to help operators stay a step ahead of the ground. We look forward to sharing more early next year.

Closing Out the Year

The ground will keep changing — our job is to help you see it sooner, understand it better, and respond with confidence. 2025 showed us what’s possible when practitioners and technologists co-create solutions.

It brought clarity to our mission: To help safeguard communities, essential services, and the environment by embedding​ earth science intelligence ​into infrastructure operations.

We’ll carry that momentum into 2026 as we expand into AI-strengthened geohazard and asset management.

Thanks for being part of the journey—whether you’ve been in the field logging tests, in the office wrangling datasets, or in the boardroom pushing for innovation in risk-averse industries. We’ll keep building the tools that help you protect the world above ground by understanding the world below it.