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What is at risk in the Arctic?

The ground operators build on is thawing, burning, and flooding faster than the models assumed. The numbers are not small.

$70T
projected cost of permafrost thaw
85%
of Alaska sits on permafrost
4×
faster Arctic warming
71,000 sq mi
burned in Canada in 2023 wildfires

Sources: Yumashev et al. 2019, Alaska DGGS, Rantanen et al. 2022, Canadian National Fire Database.

What industries are affected by the environment in the Arctic?

Mining

Pit-wall stability, tailings dams, and haul roads on thawing permafrost and seasonal frost.

Oil & Gas

Pipeline integrity, pad stability, and thaw settlement across continuous permafrost terrain.

Maritime & Shipping

Sea ice forecasts, navigation windows, port accessibility, and route risk for Arctic voyages.

Telecom & Connectivity

Cellular coverage gaps, tower placement analysis, satellite fallback options, and signal modeling.

Research & Academia

Fast access to multi-source Arctic datasets with no API juggling, perfect for field planning and analysis.

Government & Defense

Sovereignty monitoring, SAR mission planning, environmental baselines, and Arctic situational awareness.

Where does the data come from?

Digital Temperature CablesCables to 750 m carrying hundreds of sensors, the earliest warning of active-layer thaw. Built by beadedstream.Tiltmeters & inclinometersSlope creep, frost heave, and foundation tilt to sub-milliradian precision.InSAR satellite monitoringSentinel-1 SAR tracks mm-scale ground deformation from orbit, no site access.CamerasRemote and time-lapse site cameras for visual change detection and condition monitoring. By Montis Corp.Crack & displacement gaugesCatch differential settlement across joints before repairs get costly.Drone thermal imagingFLIR surveys reveal subsurface voids and thaw patches satellites miss.Vibration monitoringGeophones flag micro-seismic events and blasting impacts near assets.Weather stationsOn-site temp, wind, precip, and solar that correct model bias in complex terrain.Water quality buoysTemperature, oxygen, turbidity, and pH for thaw-lake and coastal baselines.Radar stream gaugingNon-contact flow through breakup and freeze-up.
Beadedstream team installing thermistor strings and data logger in the Arctic tundra, helicopter in the background

Ready to monitor your site continuously?

Beadedcloud is the site monitoring platform behind these sensors. Track temperature, deformation, and sensor alerts from any browser.

Built by the beadedcloud team. 700+ Arctic sites already streaming live data.

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Beadedstream project manager holding a D405 datalogger in the Arctic tundra, helicopter in the background

How do I turn insight into action?

When you're ready to monitor a specific building, pipeline, or embankment in real time, Beadedcloud connects your site sensors and triggers alerts before damage occurs.

Any sensor

Temperature probes, tiltmeters, crack gauges: beadedcloud ingests them all over LoRaWAN, Iridium, or LTE.

Real-time alerts

Threshold-based alerts go to your team via email or SMS the moment anomalous readings are detected.

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Can I get a forecast built for my site, not a generic one?

Model Factory trains custom forecasting models on your sensor data, enriched with public weather, satellite, and hydrology sources. Every forecast ships with uncertainty bands, and no model reaches your dashboard without passing review by a human engineer.

It already powers pipeline temperature forecasts and tundra opening predictions on operator dashboards today.

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What a model gives you

  • Forecasts up to 60 days out, with P10 to P90 uncertainty bands
  • Gap filling across sensors when a logger goes quiet
  • Physics-informed training that respects how ground actually freezes
  • Human approval before any model goes live

Can I get permafrost data in one request?

Alaska and Canada permafrost zone, thaw risk, ground temperature, and active layer thickness, with confidence intervals.

shellGET /api/v1/permafrost
curl "https://circumpolar.ai/api/v1/permafrost\
  ?lat=64.84&lng=-147.72&date=2050-06-01" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer cpol_YOUR_KEY"

{
  "date": "2050-06-01",
  "zone": "discontinuous",
  "risk": { "score": 0.65, "label": "High" },
  "mean_annual_ground_temperature_c": {
    "estimate": 2.2,
    "low": -1.5, "high": 5.9,
    "confidence": 0.37
  },
  "active_layer_thickness_m": {
    "estimate": 2.3,
    "low": 1.3, "high": 3.4,
    "confidence": 0.37
  }
}

Ground temperature

MAGT with confidence intervals.

Active layer thickness

Low/high range reflects seasonal and site variability.

Thaw risk score

Useful for rapid triage of infrastructure sites across a portfolio.

API docs

What do we stand for?

Seek truth through data

Every claim traces to a measurement and a named source.

Build the unprecedented

Tools that did not exist for the Arctic before.

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