Transportation - Cambio Earth

Earth sciences play a critical role in monitoring ground hazards and climate-driven deterioration.

Building and operating resilient highways and railways is a long game, especially as conditions evolve over time and assets are exposed to landslides, floods, earthquakes, and extreme events. Cambio™ is used by state DOTs, rail operators, and national agencies to detect slope, drainage, and permafrost issues early—reducing closures, delays, and emergency costs.

COMMON CHALLENGES

Underutilized data from lidar, InSAR, instrumentation, inspections, and weather across disconnected systems.

Evolving regulatory requirements demanding greater accountability, transparency, and documentation.

Resource constraints caused by tight budgets and limited crews for inspections and maintenance.

Increased exposure to climate volatility with pressure to maintain service during extreme events.

Cambio provides measurability for program effectiveness and operational efficiency

Are you focused on the right segments and assets?

Are you catching movement changes or drainage issues before they cause closure?

Can you clearly explain and justify mitigation priorities to leadership?

Can you prove inspection consistency across crews and contractors?

Are you maintaining defensible records for emergency funding claims?

What happens if your key engineer or project lead leaves mid-program?

We take away the guesswork

Detect slope, drainage, and surface stability issues before they disrupt service

Lidar/InSAR change detection for slopes, embankments, and drainage systems
Inspections, instrumentation readings, and imagery feeding into automated risk models
Historical records to confirm whether issues are new or recurring
Alerts triggered by rainfall, snowmelt, or movement thresholds

Respond faster to extreme weather and seasonal events

Live overlays for rainfall, snowpack, streamflow, earthquakes, and wildfires
Pre/post-event change detection to confirm impacts
Risk recalculations to reflect changing conditions after events
Event-triggered workflows for rapid hazard reassessment

Streamline inspections with standardized processes and automated assessment

Built-in inspection forms for slopes, washouts, culverts, debris flow crossings, and rockfall sites
Automated hazard ratings using embedded probability and consequence models
Centralized inspection records with photos, measurements, and comments
Consistent scoring across crews, regions, and contractors with inspection approval workflow for senior review

Optimize budgets with high-confidence desktop inspections in challenging and remote terrain

Before/after change detection to validate stability from the office
Lidar, InSAR, photogrammetry, and instrumentation trends for detailed monitoring
Weather and environmental data to target inspections to the most at-risk sites
Remote verification of issues to reduce unnecessary mobilizations

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