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RowScan

Pipeline integrity, monitored from space.

RowScan is a continuous-monitoring platform for US transmission pipeline operators. Satellite radar and optical imagery on a roughly weekly revisit cycle are combined to catch encroachment, third-party excavation, and ground disturbance on the right-of-way, with ranked alerts, mapped detections, dispatch records, and PHMSA-format compliance reports on one surface.

Status · Beta
See it work

What goes in, and what you walk away with.

You bring
  • Your transmission network
  • Your right-of-way map
It produces
  • Continuous change detection
  • Severity-ranked alerts
You walk away with
  • Dispatch-ready evidence
  • PHMSA-format reports
Who it’s for

For VPs of Pipeline Integrity at transmission operators with 500 – 10,000+ miles under management, ahead of the March 2026 PHMSA Class Location Change Rule.

Capabilities

What it does, concretely.

  • Continuous, weather-tolerant monitoring

    Radar sees through cloud cover and works day or night; optical imagery adds context where conditions allow. Together they replace the snapshot-and-pray cadence of quarterly helicopter surveys with coverage at every pass.

  • Far fewer false alarms

    Combining radar with optical imagery rejects the seasonal-vegetation and weather false positives that swamp single-source monitoring. The operator sees what actually changed, not the noise.

  • Severity classification with confidence

    Every change is ranked Critical / Warning / Info with a confidence score and a recommended action: dispatch, monitor, or dismiss. Each one comes mapped and ready to hand to a field crew.

  • PHMSA-format compliance reports

    Timestamped satellite imagery, before/after evidence, mapped detections, dispatch records, and a tamper-evident chain-of-custody, packaged for IM-Alternative filings without a human assembling the binder.

  • Risk and incident correlation

    Every detection is weighed against decades of federal incident history and hazard data (weather, seismic, flood). High-consequence-area segments float to the top of the dispatch queue on their own.

Section 01

Why now

The PHMSA Class Location Change Rule (effective March 16, 2026) and the Direct Final Rule (October 2025) explicitly authorize satellite patrols for transmission pipeline integrity management and create a documentation expectation around continuous monitoring. Operators who wait for the IM-Alternative filing window (opening March 16, 2028) without a 12-month archive of monitoring data will be on the back foot.

Helicopter surveys cost $200 – $500 per mile at quarterly cadence. A 2,400-mile system spends $1.6M – $4M a year on patrols that produce snapshots. The same operator gets a third-party-strike incident on average every other year, and a single third-party strike costs $2.5M direct, before regulatory exposure.

RowScan is the operating system that sits between the satellites and the dispatch queue.

Section 02

What field operations sees

Every Monday morning, the integrity team opens the dashboard. Detections from the previous cycle are grouped by segment and ranked by severity. Each alert opens to a side-by-side before/after on the map with the change highlighted, and the recommended action sits next to a dispatch button.

Crews receive the dispatch with the georeferenced polygon, the satellite evidence, and the segment context. No more windshield time burned on bare-eye patrols of segments where nothing changed.

Section 03

Why we built it

Antares Intelligence has been embedded with energy-infrastructure customers long enough to know that the bottleneck for pipeline integrity is not the imagery. Operators can buy satellite data for less than the cost of a helicopter hour. The bottleneck is the operating-grade software around the imagery: change detection that is regulatorily defensible, alerting that filters to dispatch-worthy events, and reporting that fits PHMSA's exact filing shape. We built RowScan to be that software.

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