Know What's Happening on Your Land — Before It Becomes a Problem

AI-powered pipeline corridor scanning and encroachment detection. Draw a route, click scan, get a professional risk report with every building identified — in minutes, not weeks.

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5 Detection Engines working together
Risk Analysis per 500m segment
Africa Trained & tested

See It In Action

Real results from AfriScan — AI detection on satellite and drone imagery across Mozambique.

6 buildings detected with ID labels along a pipeline corridor in Mozambique

Pipeline Corridor — Live Detection

6 buildings identified along a pipeline corridor with buffer zone overlays. Each structure labelled with a unique ID, GPS coordinates, and distance to pipeline — ready for the risk report.

Industrial facility detected within pipeline buffer zone

Industrial Encroachment

Industrial facility flagged within the pipeline buffer zone. AfriScan detects structures of all sizes — from mud huts to processing plants — and classifies risk by proximity to the corridor.

Large compound detected in bush terrain along a pipeline route

Facility Detection in Bush Terrain

Fenced compound identified adjacent to the pipeline route in dense Mozambique bush. Corridor buffer zones (50m red, 100m orange) pinpoint exactly how close infrastructure sits to the pipeline.

Industrial compound detected within pipeline corridor buffer zone

Full Corridor Scan

An entire pipeline corridor scanned in minutes. Every building and facility within the buffer zone is identified, measured, and included in the professional risk report.

Side-by-side comparison of drone orthophoto and satellite imagery along a pipeline corridor in Mozambique

Historical Imagery Comparison

Side-by-side view of a pipeline corridor — drone orthophoto (left) and high-resolution satellite (right) with the route overlaid in magenta. Spot new buildings, cleared land, and encroachment between surveys at a glance.

The Problem

Across Africa, communities encroach on pipeline corridors, mining concessions, powerline routes, and telecom sites. By the time you find out, it's a legal dispute, a safety risk, or a multi-million dollar relocation.

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Community Encroachment

New buildings, settlements, and farming creep into your corridor or concession. Without continuous monitoring, encroachment goes undetected until it's too late to act.

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Costly Disputes

Undetected land use changes lead to compensation claims, legal battles, and project delays. Early detection saves millions in relocation and litigation costs.

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Safety & Compliance Risk

People living or farming near pipelines, powerlines, and mine sites face real danger. Regulators hold you accountable for what happens in your corridor.

What AfriScan Does

Continuous land use monitoring powered by live satellite imagery, drone surveys, and AI — so you see encroachment as it happens, not months later.

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One-Click Corridor Scan

Draw a route on the map, upload a KML/GeoJSON/GPX/Shapefile, or pick from your saved routes. Set your buffer zones, click scan, and AfriScan fetches satellite imagery, runs AI detection, and delivers a complete encroachment report — hands-off, in minutes.

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Multi-Engine AI Detection

Five detection engines work together: YOLOv8 deep learning, RAMP segmentation (trained on African buildings), HOT fAIr humanitarian mapping, Google Open Buildings, and OpenStreetMap footprints. Combined ensemble mode deduplicates overlapping detections and catches mud huts, zinc-roof compounds, and informal structures that single-model tools miss. Optional SAM refinement converts boxes into precise footprint polygons.

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Buffer Zones & Risk Segments

Define any number of buffer distances (50m, 100m, 200m) around your route, or switch to polygon mode for concessions and exclusion zones. AfriScan automatically classifies every structure by buffer, divides your corridor into 500m risk segments, and ranks each one high / medium / low by building density.

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Before / After Change Detection

Compare any two imagery datasets — drone vs satellite, wet vs dry season, this month vs last year — with side-by-side or swipe viewers. AI diff mode highlights new, removed, and changed structures automatically. Track encroachment growth over time with hard evidence.

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Manual Verification & Spotter

Human-in-the-loop tools for ground-truth confirmation: a click-to-mark interface for inspectors, and a gamified "Spotter" challenge with leaderboards for crowdsourced building marking. Verified marks merge back into your corridor results and feed directly into custom model training.

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Custom Model Training

Fine-tune YOLOv8 on your own labelled imagery to catch the exact structures you care about in your terrain. Auto-chip orthomosaics into training tiles, review and confirm labels in-browser, and export a ready-to-train YOLO dataset. Train locally or ship to Colab/RunPod GPUs, then re-import your custom model.

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Imagery Library

Persistent dataset management for every image you work with — upload drone GeoTIFFs or fetch satellite tiles from Google, Esri, or Bing at zoom 16–20 (0.15–2.4m/pixel). Every dataset stored with its bounds, CRS, and capture date, ready for scan, compare, and report.

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Drone Surveys with WebODM

Upload raw drone photos and AfriScan processes them into georeferenced orthomosaics directly in the dashboard via WebODM, then feeds them straight into detection. For high-risk areas satellite flags, deploy Afridrone teams for centimetre-resolution verification.

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Professional Reports & GIS Export

PDF encroachment reports with executive summary, risk ratings, per-segment tables, and GPS-tagged photo crops of every structure. Per-location House Reports pull all available imagery for a single coordinate. GIS-ready exports: GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile, and KMZ for Google Earth — every detection with confidence, buffer zone, and distance-to-route.

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Field-Ready & Mobile

Prefetch satellite tiles for offline field use, watch live progress of every scan via real-time streaming, and resume jobs after restarts from persistent job history. The full dashboard runs on any browser — desktop, tablet, or phone — so routes, scans, and verification happen wherever the work is.

Industries We Protect

Land encroachment threatens every major infrastructure sector in Africa. AfriScan provides continuous monitoring tailored to each.

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Oil & Gas

Monitor pipeline corridors and right-of-way for new settlements, farming encroachment, and unauthorised activity. Protect operational and planned routes with live change detection.

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Mining

Track community encroachment on concession boundaries, monitor artisanal mining activity, and detect settlement expansion near tailings dams and haul roads.

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Power & Utilities

Detect structures and farming under transmission lines, monitor vegetation encroachment on powerline corridors, and flag buildings in exclusion zones.

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Telecoms

Monitor cell tower sites and fibre routes for land use changes. Track settlement growth around infrastructure for coverage planning and site security.

How It Works

1

Draw or Upload Your Route

Draw your pipeline route directly on the satellite map, upload a KML/GeoJSON file, or select from existing routes. Set your buffer zones (50m, 100m) and click scan.

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AI Scans the Corridor

AfriScan automatically fetches high-resolution satellite imagery along your route, runs multiple AI detection models, identifies every building and homestead within your buffer zones, and classifies each pipeline segment by risk level.

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Review Interactive Results

Explore results on an interactive map with colour-coded risk segments, toggleable building layers, and satellite imagery. Click any detection to see its distance to the pipeline, GPS coordinates, and satellite photo.

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Download Reports & Take Action

Download a professional PDF report with executive summary, risk analysis, and building photos. Export to Google Earth (KMZ) or GIS formats. Compare with previous scans to track changes over time.

Full-Service Imagery Acquisition

You don't need your own drones, satellites, or GIS team. We acquire all the imagery and deliver the intelligence — end to end.

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Live Airbus Satellite Imagery

Continuous access to Airbus Defence & Space satellite imagery — Pléiades Neo at 30cm resolution and SPOT at 1.5m. We task satellites to cover your corridors and concessions on a schedule that suits your monitoring needs.

  • Any location in Africa — no ground access required
  • Regular revisit schedules for change detection
  • Archive imagery for historical baseline analysis
  • Ideal for wide-area and long-corridor monitoring
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Afridrone Survey Teams

Professional drone survey teams deployed through our partnership with Afridrone. Centimetre-resolution imagery for detailed site verification and close-range inspection.

  • On-demand deployment across Africa
  • Centimetre accuracy for structure-level detail
  • Verify satellite-detected encroachment on the ground
  • Perfect for baseline surveys and incident investigation

Satellite for continuous watching. Drones for ground truth. AI for instant analysis. One provider — complete coverage.

Why Africa Needs Purpose-Built AI

Generic detection models trained on European and North American imagery fail on African landscapes. AfriScan is trained on real African structures — thatched roofs, mud-brick compounds, informal markets, zinc shelters — delivering accuracy where it matters most.

Mozambique

Pipeline corridor surveys across Cabo Delgado, Inhambane, and Gaza provinces.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Models adaptable to rural settlement patterns across East, West, and Southern Africa.

Challenging Terrain

Designed for bush, savanna, coastal, and semi-arid environments common across the continent.

How We Work — Service Plans & Pricing

Simple, predictable monthly pricing tied to the size of what you need to watch. No per-seat fees, no setup charges, no platform lock-in.

Linear assets $ / km / month Pipelines, powerlines, fibre routes, rail, roads
Area assets $ / km² / month Concessions, mine sites, corridors, exclusion zones
Contract terms Monthly · Quarterly · Annual Volume discounts on multi-year & multi-asset commits
Essential

Baseline Monitoring

For first-line visibility over stable corridors.

  • Monthly satellite scan (Google / Esri, 0.3–0.6m)
  • Multi-engine AI detection
  • Monthly encroachment PDF report
  • Web dashboard access
  • Email delivery & archive
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Standard Most popular

Active Monitoring

For corridors with active encroachment risk.

  • Weekly satellite scan + high-res on schedule (Pléiades 30cm / SPOT 1.5m)
  • All detection engines with human QA
  • Monthly change detection between scans
  • Quarterly drone verification sweep
  • Risk segment classification & alerts for new detections
  • GIS exports (GeoPackage, KMZ, Shapefile)
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Premium

Continuous Intelligence

For high-value assets, compliance-critical sites, or active disputes.

  • Daily monitoring with tasked satellite acquisitions
  • Monthly drone verification sweep
  • Custom YOLO model fine-tuned on your terrain
  • Real-time encroachment alerts
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Branded reports & API access
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Enterprise

Custom & White-Label

For operators with multiple assets, sovereign data needs, or tender frameworks.

  • White-labelled dashboard & reports
  • On-prem or in-country sovereign hosting
  • SLA-backed uptime & response times
  • Tender-compliant documentation pack
  • Integration with client GIS / SCADA / ERP
  • Bespoke contract terms & master services agreements
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One-Time & Project Services

Not ready for a subscription? We also deliver on a project basis.

Baseline Corridor Survey

A single comprehensive scan of your pipeline, concession, or right-of-way. Full AI detection, manual QA, risk segmentation, and PDF report. Priced per km or km² of the surveyed footprint.

Incident Investigation

Rapid response for disputes, accidents, or community incidents. Mobilise Afridrone teams for on-site drone survey, combine with archive satellite imagery, deliver an evidence pack for legal or regulatory use.

Custom Model Development

Need to detect specific structures unique to your operations — a particular facility type, crop, or land use pattern? We collect training data, fine-tune a custom model, and deliver it ready to run in the platform.

Built for Enterprise Procurement

We work with oil & gas majors, mining houses, utilities, and government agencies. We know how your procurement teams operate — and we're built to respond.

Tender & RFP Response

We respond to formal tenders, RFPs, and RFQs with structured proposals aligned to your evaluation criteria. Standard response time is 5 business days for qualified opportunities.

  • Technical proposals with methodology & coverage plans
  • Commercial proposals with per-km / per-km² pricing tables
  • Delivery schedules, milestones, and acceptance criteria
  • Reference implementations available under NDA
  • Framework agreements, MSAs, and call-off orders supported

Compliance & Governance

Complete documentation pack for procurement and supplier onboarding, including:

  • Professional indemnity & public liability insurance certificates
  • Data handling, retention, and sovereignty policies
  • HSE statements for drone deployment teams
  • Local tax & legal compliance across African jurisdictions
  • Subprocessor & supply chain disclosure
  • Code of conduct & anti-bribery policies

Procurement team has questions? Send us your supplier onboarding form and we'll return it completed.

From Contract to First Scan

Standard onboarding runs in four stages, typically completed within two weeks of contract signature.

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Scope Definition

Kick-off call to confirm routes and areas, review boundary files, agree monitoring cadence, buffer distances, alert thresholds, and report format. Outputs a signed scope schedule that locks commercial terms.

2

Baseline Scan & Calibration

We deliver a full baseline scan of every asset in scope. If your tier includes a custom model, we collect training data during this stage and fine-tune against your specific terrain. You receive an initial report covering all current encroachment.

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Dashboard Handover

Your team gets live dashboard access with user accounts, roles, and (for Enterprise) branded domain. We walk your technical team through the workflow, exports, and API if applicable.

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Live Monitoring

Monitoring runs on schedule. You receive reports at your chosen cadence, plus alerts for material new detections between reports. Drone sweeps are scheduled and delivered per your tier. Quarterly review calls keep scope, risk, and value aligned.

Protect Your Corridors & Concessions

Get in touch to discuss your monitoring requirements. We'll show you how AfriScan can protect your infrastructure with live satellite and drone intelligence.