The NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)  satellite is a joint mission between the United States space agency NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). NISAR satellite during assembly and testing. Source: ISRO The NISAR satellite was launched on 30 July 2025 at 17:40 IST (Indian Standard Time) aboard the GSLV-F16 rocket from India, NISAR is designed to measure subtle changes in Earth’s land and ice surfaces with unprecedented precision. The satellite’s dua

Owning a home in Aotearoa comes with a bit more than just a mortgage and a lawn to mow. Our country’s wild landscapes are the result of some serious underground forces, and they haven’t stopped moving. With active faults, creeping hillsides, coastal erosion, and volcanic zones across both islands – many homeowners are sitting on land that’s subtly shifting beneath them. Especially for Kiwis, a lot of this movement happens too slowly to notice… until it doesn’t. InSAR Land Mov

14 August 2025 – Auckland, New Zealand Avant Global Ltd has entered into an exclusive partnership with UK-based InSAR specialist SatSense to launch LandSure  – a New Zealand based monitoring and reporting platform for New Zealand’s residential and civil markets. The partnership between Avant and SatSense gives a continuous ten-year archive of ground-movement measurements collected by the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellites. These satellites operate C-band Synthetic

New Zealand straddles the volatile boundary between the Pacific and Australian plates. This tectonic marriage means our mountains, valleys and coastlines are always on the move – sometimes slowly, sometimes in sudden lurches. For decades, scientists relied on ground‑based instruments to measure these shifts. Today, we are using a combination of radar satellites and clever mathematics, to monitor the land movements... even from hundreds of kilometres above. InSAR land-movement