CATALYST has launched INSIGHTS Vegetation Management, aimed to update Electric Utilities’ biggest operational challenges.

INSIGHTS Vegetation Management is a satellite-based monitoring service that helps reduce outages and enhance reliability by identifying where networks are at greatest risk.

CATALYST has announced how vegetation is a major cause of power outages and contributes to infrastructure damage and wildfires.

Weather events

As extreme weather events become more frequent, Electric Utilities face increasing challenges in maintaining grid stability. Managing vegetation is costly with major U.S. Utilities spending over $100 million annually.

CATALYST have spoken about how spending can be inefficient – without insights into current vegetation conditions, traditional inspection and pruning programs which are forced to revisit areas on fixed cycles rather than prioritizing areas at highest risk.

CATALYST’s INSIGHTS Vegetation Management replaces fixed maintenance schedules with condition-based working informed by regular network-wide intelligence. Its insights enable arborists to optimize operations by focusing inspection and maintenance crews on areas.

President and CEO, PCI Geomatics, June McAlarey’s statement

June McAlarey, President and CEO OF PCI Geomatics shared: “INSIGHTS Vegetation Management expands CATALYST’s suite of risk monitoring solutions, equipping Utilities with essential intelligence to improve resilience and operational efficiency.

“By leveraging advanced satellite technology, Utilities can actively target vegetation risks, reducing outages and ensuring safer, more reliable service for their customers.”

Features of INSIGHTS

INSIGHTS combines high-resolution satellite imagery with Utilities’ and environmental data to identify high-risk trees and quantify threats. Unlike black-box AI models, it offers transparent, science-based risk assessments that can be customized to utility needs.

As a data-as-a-service (DaaS) solution, INSIGHTS integrates with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms and field management tools, providing Utilities with accessible actionable intelligence.

Developed through CATALYST’s experience in Earth observation analytics and library of processing algorithms, INSIGHTS Vegetation Management is designed to deliver reliable and precise risk assessments tailored to Utility operations.

Launch of INSIGHTS Vegetation Management announced by CATALYST: Summary

INSIGHTS Vegetation Management has been announced by CATALYST, aimed to update Electric Utilities’ biggest operational challenges.