Maritime
See every vessel, in every weather.
Satellite data for the sea: radar and ship-tracking for safe, secure waters, and ocean conditions for marine engineering, routing and offshore operations.
What stands in the way.
Three problems we hear from maritime teams again and again.
Dark vessels
Ships that switch off their transponders disappear from conventional tracking.
Vast areas, few patrols
Exclusive economic zones are too large to watch with ships and aircraft alone.
Weather risk
Waves, wind and currents drive fuel cost, delays and structural fatigue.
Ocean intelligence from orbit
Radar sees through cloud and darkness. We detect vessels, match them against transponder tracks, and add wave, wind and current data for engineering and routing.
- 01Capture
Radar and optical passes
- 02Receive
Ground-station downlink
- 03Detect
AI finds every vessel
- 04Match
Compare with ship-tracking (AIS)
- 05Alert
Unmatched vessels flagged
- Vessels detected (sample day)
- 1,284
- Unmatched "dark" vessels
- 37
- Image to alert target
- <15min
vessels · day · Sample data
vessels · Sample data
Ship tracking from space
We plan to fly space-based ship-tracking (AIS and VDES) receivers alongside radar, so one pass both detects a vessel and hears whether it is broadcasting.
- 1Listen
Receive ship transponder signals
- 2Image
Radar pass over the same area
- 3Fuse
Combine detections and signals
- 4Flag
Identify vessels not broadcasting
- 5Deliver
Alert to the operations centre
Built for defence and for business.
The same data and engineering serve government missions and commercial operations.
Defence & Government
- Coastal surveillancePersistent watch over territorial waters.
- Dark-vessel detectionFind ships that go silent.
- Fisheries enforcementSpot illegal fishing in protected zones.
- Search and rescueLocate vessels in distress.
Commercial
- Weather routingPlan voyages around waves and wind.
- Marine engineeringMet-ocean data for ship and offshore structure design.
- Port operationsMonitor congestion and berth use.
- Spill responseMap oil spills and track their spread.
What powers it.
The Norzva technology behind Maritime.
Radar vessel detection
All-weather, day and night.
AIS fusion
Match detections to transponder tracks.
Met-ocean data
Waves, wind and currents.
Maritime dashboards
Alerts and history for each zone.
Where we are today.
We're open about what is ready now and what is still being built.
Available now
- Maritime analytics on open satellite data
- Met-ocean data studies for engineering
In development
- Dark-vessel detection service
- Port and coastal monitoring dashboards
Planned
- Norzva radar and AIS payloads
- Real-time maritime domain awareness
Questions
Does radar work at night and through cloud?
Yes. Radar provides its own illumination and sees through cloud.
What is a dark vessel?
A ship that is not broadcasting its AIS position, which may indicate illegal activity.
Can you cover a specific zone?
Yes. We set up monitoring for the areas you define.
Do you provide data for ship design?
Yes. We provide wave, wind and current statistics for engineering studies.
Let's plan your maritime mission.
Tell us what you need to see or build. An engineer from our Maritime team will reply within two working days.
Other Norzva domains.
Every domain starts from the same constellation.