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Groundwater
Aquifer identification for industrial, municipal and agricultural supply, read on the same spectral principle as any other subsurface target.
Satellite-based direct detection
Your land already holds the value. The question is where.
Remote spectral analysis converts held acreage into a ranked, drill-ready target list.
- 8,000 m
- Detection depth
- ±3 m
- Location accuracy
- 75%
- Reserve estimation
- 2–3 mo
- Time to survey
- ◆ Trusted by
The cost of not knowing
See what is underground before you touch it.
Satellite-based spectral detection maps element concentration and depth before the first rig moves.
- 8,000 m
- Maximum detection depth, read from orbit across the whole licence area
- 2–3 months
- Time to survey with VMF — a 3D model with depth, volume and coordinates
Where we can survey
We can survey the most difficult terrains.
Deserts, high Himalayas, dense forests, offshore acreage — expensive, slow, or simply impossible to survey conventionally. All of it is within our reach.
Hilly terrain
Desert
Dense vegetation
Environmentally sensitive zones
Transition zones
OffshoreNo ground disturbance, no site access, no clearance required to run the survey.
The method
It begins with a satellite pass.
Multispectral imagery and electromagnetic spectral analysis read the subsurface directly. The block is surveyed, filtered and modelled before anyone sets foot on it.
The sequence
Step 01 · Frame the block
Start with the whole licence area.
The tract is defined by its corner coordinates — tens of square kilometres at a time, taken in a single pass rather than walked line by line.
Industries we serve
Six questions the same survey can answer.
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Critical minerals
Strategic inputs that national programmes and supply chains are now built around — surveyed element by element, with the target set before acquisition begins.
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Metallic minerals
Gold, copper and base metals mapped by concentration and depth across a licence area, before a single confirmation hole is planned.
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Oil & gas
Hydrocarbon signatures resolved to depth across frontier acreage and producing blocks alike, including Category II and III basins assessed on the same basis as a producing block.
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Diamonds
Kimberlite pipes carry their own spectral signature. The same survey that maps a metallic target can be run for diamondiferous ground.
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Archaeological survey
Buried structures and material remains sit within reach of the same detection depth, mapped before a single trench is opened.
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Not sure which applies?
Send the corner coordinates of the block. We will tell you which targets the spectral data can resolve on that ground, and to what depth, before anything is committed.
Send a blockCritical minerals
India cannot wait a decade for its critical minerals.
Remote detection that shortens the path from block award to production decision.
Find the grade before you fund the programme.
Spectral detection maps element concentration and depth across your block, so drilling starts with a ranked target list instead of a hypothesis.
Completed detections
Surveys we have completed.
Çalik Petrol
Turkey · 2019
Area surveyed 100 km² · anomaly resolved across 16 km² · 3D block modelled 900–1,900 m · elements C, H, S, N.
A hydrocarbon survey across the full licence area. The signature was resolved to a smaller zone inside it, and that zone was modelled in depth with drilling reference points, so target intervals could be planned before anything was mobilised.
bee'ah
Sharjah, UAE · 2019
Area surveyed 70 km² landfill · methane concentration modelled to 25 m depth.
Methane mapped across a landfill operated by the Sharjah waste management entity, then modelled in three dimensions over the concentrated area. The client tested the result against physical drilling on its own site.
Marienhof Project, EPL 7300 — gold
Rehoboth, Namibia
12.0 km² surveyed · 0.31 km² modelled in 3D · 100–450 m · 0.7–1.8 g/t · ~108 Mt at 30–100% intensity.
Gold anomalies mapped over the western part of the licence and inverted into a depth block, with three drill holes proposed on the target. The figures are exploration targets derived from remote sensing, not a mineral resource or reserve.
Kokong Project, PL 165/2021
Kgalagadi District, Botswana · 2023–2025
Musa Metals Botswana (Pty) Ltd
85 km² surveyed within PL 165/2021 · nickel indicated 700–1,200 m · niobium 40–85 m · titanium to approximately 130 m.
Three elements read from one acquisition over the northern part of the licence. The operator subsequently commissioned an independent aeromagnetic interpretation, which found the nickel and niobium areas coincide with positive magnetic anomalies.
Figures as recorded in VMF survey reports and in independent NI 43-101 technical reports. Modelled volumes are exploration targets derived from remote sensing, not mineral resources or reserves.
Verified against drilling
Checked against the drill bit.
At bee'ah's landfill in Sharjah, the survey was not left as a model on a screen. The client tested it on its own site, against physical drilling.
The comparison was made by the client, on ground it knows better than anyone. This is its own record of the outcome.
“This method was tested by the company in comparison with physical drilling, and the results were considered as positive to the company expectations.”
Independent review
Reviewed by people with no stake in the result.
The method has been through an independent technical review. Neftegaz ECO Center — the independent environmental expertise centre for the oil and gas industry, working with Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas — examined multispectral forecast verification as a remote sensing method for fuel and energy facilities and issued a formal expert conclusion.
We share the full conclusion on request.
Explore a completed survey
The same block, read two ways.
This is a hydrocarbon survey over 100 km² in Turkey. Drag the cut-off to watch the anomaly refine; drag the block to look at it from any angle.
Hydrocarbon 30–100%
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Hydrocarbon · 900–1,900 m
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Body base
The block is the modelled body from the report. Colour follows the same intensity scale as the 2D figures.
Depth structure decoded from the 29 vertical cross-sections published in the survey report; lateral extent constrained to the published 2D intensity map. Block 5,385 × 1,857 m, modelled between 900 and 1,900 m.
Independent corroboration
Read against an independent geophysical survey.
Starseed Global FZCO · Sinclair Mines, Namibia · report prepared by Dr Khumo Leseane, 10 January 2025.
Start a survey
Bring us a block. We'll tell you what's under it.
Send the corner coordinates of a licence area and we will come back with what a VMF survey would cover, what it would cost, and how long it would take — before you commit anything to the ground.