Disaster Response
Disasters demand rapid, informed action. Standard data can't keep up.
Critical decision-making during a disaster requires immediate, high-fidelity data. CartoVid addresses this need with an advanced, intuitive geospatial platform. Stop guessing and start responding.
CartoVid provides utility and infrastructure teams with a unified, actionable view of impacted areas. The result is an enhanced capability to streamline response efforts, accelerate damage assessment, and boost long-term operational resilience. CartoVid is the essential tool for turning raw field observations into confident, intelligent management actions.
The Geospatial Video and Imagery Platform
CartoVid is a unified visual data platform designed to help teams ingest, manage, view, and securely share geospatial video and imagery—regardless of the sensor, data source, or file format.
It allows you to rapidly collect data from diverse sources, including helicopters, drones, dashcams, and cellphones. Once ingested, it spatially indexes your unstructured inspection data, transforming it into a searchable, enterprise-wide system of record. This enables users to quickly spatially filter their assets to access the most recent and relevant visual data.
Versatility Across All Hazard Types
CartoVid is a highly versatile geospatial platform, essential for post-event assessment and recovery across a wide spectrum of natural and man-made disasters. Proven in:
- Severe Weather: Hurricanes, tornadoes, high winds, and ice storms.
- Wildfires: Post-fire burn scar mapping and asset damage confirmation.
- Hydrological Events: Major flooding, coastal surge, and landslides.
- Geological Events: Earthquakes causing ground movement and structural damage.
- Infrastructure Failure: Large-scale incidents like pipeline breaks or industrial accidents.
Reducing Risk in a Disaster
CartoVid delivers in disaster response by maximizing efficiency and minimizing unnecessary expenditure. By leveraging AI-driven analysis and high-resolution imagery, the platform enables precise, remote damage assessment.
- Minimize Field Time: Drastically reduces manual patrol hours and vehicle mileage.
- Efficient Resource Use: Ensures specialized crews and expensive equipment are deployed only to confirmed repair sites.
Protecting Your Organization: Post-Disaster Audit Trail
CartoVid provides a critical function after a disaster has passed by automatically generating a comprehensive and immutable audit trail essential for managing claims and mitigating liability.
- Irrefutable Audit Trail: Automatically logs all critical data, imagery, and response actions in a secure, time-stamped record.
- Faster Claim Resolution: Supplies detailed, geospatial evidence required for prompt and successful insurance claim reconciliation.
- Regulatory Compliance: Easily demonstrates adherence to all necessary operational and recovery protocols with complete documentation.
- Liability Mitigation: Provides verifiable evidence of due diligence and swift response to defend against legal claims.
AI-Powered Collaboration for Cohesive Response
CartoVid fundamentally enhances disaster response through the combined power of AI analysis and immediate data democratization across the entire response team. The platform’s embedded Artificial Intelligence rapidly processes massive volumes of incoming data, including high-resolution aerial imagery, instantly identifying and quantifying damage to critical assets.
- Single Source of Truth: Unifies all data (damage, assets, crews) into one geospatial platform accessible to the entire response team.
- Seamless Coordination: Breaks down communication silos, ensuring field crews, managers, and executives work from the same real-time intelligence.
Unified Data for Real-Time Response
CartoVid ensures efficient disaster response by focusing on data availability across the entire operational team during an event. The platform acts as a single, centralized geospatial hub, and instantly makes this unified view accessible to every stakeholder—from field crews and dispatchers to executive management. This shared, standardized intelligence eliminates communication lag and silos, allowing for synchronized, informed decision-making and coordinated resource deployment.
- Real-Time Data Sharing: Provides a single, unified geospatial view to all teams simultaneously, eliminating information gaps.
- Coordinated Action: Enables synchronized deployment of crews and resources based on shared, up-to-the-minute damage intelligence.
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Why Sam?
SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner.
As a leading provider of geospatial data for decision support, SAM serves utilities, transportation, and infrastructure-focused clients. With fifty offices, we are the largest, most technically advanced professional Managed Geospatial Service™ (MGS™) in North America. We use innovative technology to capture and analyze infrastructure and environmental conditions with unmatched speed and accuracy, delivering business insights that ensure the safety, sustainability, and reliability of critical infrastructure for our partners.
CartoVid channels our geospatial expertise to deliver a powerful platform for disaster assessment and infrastructure monitoring. Designed for rapid response and seamless integration, CartoVid transforms aerial imagery and field data into actionable insights—so you can make critical decisions with clarity and confidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
So, what is CartoVid?
- A Data Analytics and AI Platform
- Scalable SaaS software in the Google Cloud Platform
- A secure way to store, organize, and view GPS-enabled videos, photos, LiDAR, and more.
- A fast and easy way to upload and access data from internal and external resources
- A way to communicate, share, and receive data with any users
- Platform to search and collaborate seamlessly within your proprietary data set
- System to enable complete data mining and analytics capabilities
What are examples of use cases for CartoVid?
- Asset & ROW Inspections
- Vegetation Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Emergency Preparedness
- Quick Capture & Dissemination of Storm Damage
- Safety Training Videos
- Staging Site Pre/Post Condition
- PSC Audit Documentation
- Identifying High-Risk Vegetation
What sources of data can CartoVid use?
- Fleet vehicles using a dashcam
- Drones (Terrestrial, Aerial, & Aquatic)
- Boots on the ground – Mobile Apps or GoPros
- Aerial Patrol (Helicopter or Fixed Wing)
What type of video can be integrated?
- HD (1080, 4k and 8k)
- Infrared/Thermal
- Multispectral (for vegetation health analysis)
- LiDAR
How can CartoVid drive Project management?
- Enables secure access – CartoVid allows project leaders to grant access to individuals or groups, inside and outside an organization, to integrated tools and functions for safe and secure data access, sharing, and collaboration.
- Allows comments and questions on specific data points – Using CartoVid, authorized individuals can directly ask questions, make comments and point out concerns to an individual, a select group, or all project participants.
- Permits pause and zoom observations – Pause and zoom video to inspect objects. Make notations directly on the video. Highlight spatially specific observations, and create actionable records that can be incorporate into GIS mappings.
- Share and copy with internally and externally – Project owners can share video content with partners while retaining ownership of all the content. They can also provide others with their own copies of the video.
- Capture and retain your data history – CartoVid captures and retains a media history of each project, complete with participant comments, observations, questions, and markups. This audit trail provides a visual record of an asset and the surrounding area at any phase of a project or over the life of an asset to enable comparative analyses. This record can be especially valuable for compliance audits.
- Streamline object and condition detection – Object Detection is an extension of CartoVid that detects and delivers actionable insights. Users can define, identify, and locate critical points and specific objects to speed planning and resolution.
Transform Data into Action with CartoVid
Contact us to discover how CartoVid can streamline operations, enhance geospatial insights, and empower smarter decision-making.