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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?

Circumpolar.ai connects to beadedcloud, a site monitoring platform built for Arctic infrastructure. 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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New · Model Context Protocol

Point your AI agent at BeadedCloud

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini over MCP and ask in plain language. General tools analyze any sensor or time-series you bring; get_permafrost returns structured permafrost data for any Arctic coordinate; industry demo packs (asset integrity) show worked examples. No account or key needed for the public demo.

get_permafrostanalyze_timeseriesdetect_anomalyassess_thermal_fatiguesummarize_dataset
Set up MCP See it live on Polar LNG, Prudhoe Bay, and Nenana.
Beadedstream project manager holding a D405 datalogger in the Arctic tundra, helicopter in the background

How do I turn insight into action?

Circumpolar gives you satellite and model data. 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.

Audit-ready logs

Every reading is timestamped and stored. Regulators, insurers, and engineers all get the same data.

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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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