Validated prototype · Niger Delta

Oil spills,
seen from
orbit.

KHAD EarthSense processes the full satellite archive over the Niger Delta to automatically detect oil contamination — without ground access, through cloud cover, with cryptographically timestamped evidence for every finding.

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Built in Nigeria Full satellite archive Validated against UNEP Ogoniland 2016 — present
01 / The Problem

Spills go unseen for months. Sometimes years.

Oil contamination in the Niger Delta is chronically underreported. Communities wait months — sometimes years — for the official record to catch up with the reality on their land and water. Litigation fails without timestamped independent evidence. Regulators cannot watch tens of thousands of square kilometres of creeks, mangroves, and pipelines in real time.

Until now, no automated satellite platform existed to close this gap. The cost of the evidence vacuum falls on the communities least equipped to document what happened to them.

A radar satellite in low Earth orbit above the Niger Delta at dawn, its solar panels catching the sunrise — the vantage point from which Khadsense operates
Khadsense watches the entire Niger Delta from orbit — automatically, day and night, through cloud cover. No ground access required.
02 / Results

Measured. Validated. Reproducible.

Validated
89%
Independently validated against UNEP Ogoniland reference data, trained on 358 Niger Delta sites
Archive
80K+
Satellite scenes processed, 2016 to present
Evidence
Forensic
Every detection cryptographically timestamped for court-admissible evidence
An automated coverage map of the Niger Delta, with a dense grid of satellite footprint tiles and several live detections highlighted in amber
Automated coverage  ·  Live The full Niger Delta is tiled by continuous satellite coverage. Every new detection appears here the moment the system flags it — without anyone pressing a button.
Night sky over Niger Delta mangroves with satellite trails streaking across the Milky Way
// Continuous overhead monitoring
Somewhere above the Delta right now, a satellite is passing — and the pipeline is already looking.
24 / 7  //  Day & Night  //  Through Cloud
03 / Method

A pipeline designed to run continuously, without clouds, without ground access.

A wall of automated monitors continuously displaying satellite detection output over the Niger Delta, with no human operators in view
Automated The pipeline runs on its own. No analyst pulls the data. No one clicks a button to detect a spill. The system watches, flags, and timestamps — continuously.
Step 01
Ingest satellite data
Every new satellite image covering the Niger Delta is pulled automatically from Europe's open earth-observation archive. The satellite sees through cloud cover and operates day and night, covering the full region on a six-day cycle.
Step 02
Detect with machine learning
A classifier trained on 358 Niger Delta reference sites identifies pixels showing oil contamination signatures. Independent validation against UNEP Ogoniland held-out data confirms 89% accuracy.
Step 03
Timestamp and publish
Every detection is cryptographically timestamped to produce a tamper-evident evidence record — usable in environmental litigation, regulatory response, and independent reporting.
A satellite radar close-up of a Niger Delta creek with a dark oil slick outlined by a cyan detection polygon drawn by the automated classifier, annotated with latitude, longitude, and confidence
A single detection What the classifier sees the moment it flags a spill: a dark anomaly against the radar return, outlined automatically, stamped with coordinates and confidence.
04 / Who it's for

For everyone working on accountability in the Niger Delta.

Legal

Litigation teams

Forensic-grade, timestamped satellite evidence for environmental cases.

Civil society

Environmental NGOs

Scalable monitoring to support field work and independent reporting.

Public sector

Government regulators

Automated early warning to complement ground inspection capacity.

Communities

Affected populations

Independent verification of contamination on land, water and livelihoods.

Finance

Insurers

Independent loss verification and claims assessment across the region.

Development

International funders

Measurable SDG 15 and SDG 16 outcomes with transparent impact reporting.

05 / Get in touch

Let's put this
to work.

Request a briefing, access case studies, or discuss a partnership. Every serious inquiry gets a direct reply.

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