Extreme weather has tested New Zealand’s infrastructure and reshaped the way financial institutions think about land risk. Floods, slips and rising water tables have exposed weaknesses in how banks and insurers assess property stability. Traditional approaches that rely on council maps and historical claims data are no longer enough. An artistic representation of the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite orbiting above New Zealand. This geospatial data gives lenders, i

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