Orbital Sidekick raises $10M to bring hyperspectral imaging to oil and gas pipeline monitoring

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Orbital Sidekick raises $10M to bring hyperspectral imaging to oil and gas pipeline monitoring - TechCrunch

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Historically, oil and gas companies have monitored pipeline leaks using inefficient, expensive methods: workers equipped with handheld optical gas imaging cameras, for example.

Or, as Orbital Sidekick CEO Dan Katz put it in a recent interview with TechCrunch, "a young pilot sticking their head out the window of a crop-duster.

Compared to competitors, Katz said Orbital Sidekick provides higher resolution, at eight meters per pixel, by collecting more than 500 spectral channels.