Podcast: Project Geospatial – GEOINT 2025 | Terradepth – Andrew Lunstad
Dive deep into the world of Terradepth with CTO Andrew Lunstad, as he discusses their mission to revolutionize how we understand and interact with the ocean. Learn how Terradepth is tackling the challenge of gathering and making sense of vital undersea data, an area less explored than the surface of Mars. Discover their innovative two-pronged approach: developing high-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for massive data collection, and their powerful, sensor-agnostic Absolute Ocean data platform. This platform, built on CesiumJS, offers advanced visualization and management tools, allowing users to interact with both current and historical undersea surveys to make better decisions for critical applications like offshore energy, resource management, and defense. Andrew also shares insights into their cloud strategy, their shift to AWS GovCloud for enhanced security, and how Absolute Ocean enables faster collaboration and decision-making, moving from “scan to decision” in hours rather than months by integrating edge computing capabilities.
Highlights:
🌊 Terradepth’s mission: Help people make better decisions about the ocean by tackling the vast unknown beneath the surface.
🤖 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Building high-endurance AUVs to collect volumes of ocean data.
📊 Absolute Ocean Platform: A data platform that integrates, manages, and visualizes all kinds of ocean data, making it permissioned and controllable.
🌐 CesiumJS Integration: Absolute Ocean’s front end is built on CesiumJS, offering an intuitive, world-view interface for undersea data, akin to Google Maps.
☁️ Cloud & Security: Consolidated to AWS (including GovCloud) for sensitive government data, and supports self-hosted solutions for enterprise customers.
🤝 Enhanced Collaboration: Enables interactive monitoring of surveys and seamless collaboration among stakeholders without specialized tools.
⚡ Speed to Decision: Leveraging edge hosting to drastically reduce the time from data collection to decision-making, from months to the same day.
