Arctic intelligence for infrastructure operators.
Pin any location. Ask Circe about permafrost, weather, sea ice, cellular coverage, and terrain. Backed by 8+ public datasets.
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How it works
From question to answer in 30 seconds
Pin your location
Click anywhere on the Arctic map: coastal, inland, or offshore. No GIS skills required.
Ask anything
Ask Circe plain questions. "Is this suitable for a pipeline?" "When does sea ice clear here?"
Get data-backed answers
Circe pulls from 8+ Arctic data sources and gives specific, cite-able answers in seconds.
Industries
Built for everyone who works in the Arctic
Whether you're building pipelines, routing ships, underwriting risk, or planning research.
Infrastructure & Mining
Ground stability, permafrost risk, frost heave potential, and active layer depth for any project site.
Maritime & Shipping
Sea ice forecasts, navigation windows, port accessibility, and route risk for Arctic voyages.
Insurance & Risk
Site-specific risk profiles for underwriters, asset managers, and ESG frameworks covering climate exposure.
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.
Data depth
Not a dashboard. A toolbox.
We aggregate 8+ trusted Arctic data sources so you don't have to. No GIS expertise, no API keys, no stitching CSVs together at 2am.
- ✓NSIDC permafrost + sea ice extent (daily updates)
- ✓Copernicus Sentinel-1 SAR for ground deformation
- ✓ArcticDEM 2m terrain, full Arctic coverage
- ✓MET Norway Arome Arctic weather model
- ✓OpenCelliD cell tower locations + signal data
- ✓EMODnet + IBCAO bathymetry for Arctic seas
8+
Data sources
100%
Arctic coverage
Daily
Update cadence
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Questions answered
Trusted public sources
NSIDC
Sea ice & permafrost
Copernicus
Sentinel SAR & optical
ArcticDEM
2m elevation
MET Norway
Arctic weather
OpenCelliD
Cell tower data
EMODnet
Bathymetry
USGS
Alaska terrain
GTN-P
Permafrost boreholes
Ground truth
Better data starts on the ground
Satellite and model data gives you the picture. Site instrumentation gives you certainty. These sensor types deliver the best localized ground truth for Arctic assets.
Permafrost temperature strings
Thermistor chains installed at 2–20m depth give continuous ground temperature profiles: the earliest warning of active layer deepening before surface deformation begins.
GTN-P protocol · 15-min intervals
Tiltmeters & inclinometers
Detect slope creep, frost heave, and structural tilt on foundations and embankments to sub-milliradian precision. Ideal for pipeline supports, bridge abutments, and retaining structures.
±0.001° resolution · solar-powered
InSAR satellite monitoring
Sentinel-1 repeat-pass SAR interferometry measures millimeter-scale ground deformation across entire sites from orbit. No ground access needed, critical for remote or inaccessible terrain.
12-day revisit · 20m pixel · free archive
IoT soil moisture & frost depth
Low-cost capacitive sensors in a wireless mesh track active layer thickness and soil moisture seasonally. Informs drainage design and freeze-thaw cycle modeling at centimeter resolution.
LoRaWAN · 5km range · 2-year battery
Crack & displacement gauges
Linear potentiometers and digital crack sensors across structural joints catch differential settlement early. Trigger alerts before damage becomes costly to repair.
0.1mm resolution · real-time alert
Drone thermal imaging
Annual FLIR surveys reveal near-surface ice distribution, subsurface voids, and anomalous thaw patches invisible to satellite. Fast, cost-effective ground truth for pre-construction planning.
FLIR Zenmuse · 5cm GSD · repeatable transects
Vibration monitoring
Geophone arrays and MEMS accelerometers detect micro-seismic events, blasting impacts, and equipment vibration at sensitive infrastructure. Essential for pipelines, bridges, and buildings near active operations.
1Hz–1kHz · continuous logging · alert threshold
Weather stations
On-site automatic weather stations measure air temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, humidity, and solar radiation. Ground-truth data that corrects model biases in complex Arctic terrain.
WMO-compliant · solar + battery · LTE/Iridium backhaul
Water quality buoys
Moored instruments track temperature profiles, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, conductivity, and pH in Arctic lakes, rivers, and coastal waters. Critical for permafrost thaw lake monitoring and baseline assessments.
Multi-parameter sonde · seasonal deployment
Radar stream gauging
Non-contact surface velocity radar measures stream flow without in-channel sensors. No ice jamming, no maintenance windows. Provides continuous discharge data through breakup and freeze-up.
24GHz Doppler · ±1% velocity accuracy · remote access
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.
Site monitoring
From intelligence to 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.
Blog
Arctic intelligence, explained
Understanding Permafrost Thaw Risk for Arctic Infrastructure
As global temperatures rise, permafrost across the Arctic is thawing at unprecedented rates. We break down what this means for pipelines, buildings, and roads, and how to quantify the risk before you build.
Mar 15, 2026
Sea Ice Trends and the Opening of Arctic Shipping Routes
The Northern Sea Route is increasingly navigable. We analyze the latest NSIDC sea ice extent data and what it means for shipping costs, transit times, and environmental liability.
Feb 28, 2026
Cellular Connectivity in the Arctic: Challenges and Solutions
The Arctic has some of the lowest cellular coverage density on Earth. We map the gaps, explain why they exist, and review emerging satellite solutions from Starlink, Iridium Certus, and more.
Feb 10, 2026
Free API
Permafrost data in one request
Alaska and Canada permafrost zone, thaw risk, ground temperature, and active layer thickness — with confidence intervals. Free tier, no GIS required.
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 derived from ASTER elevation + Alaska MAAT climate model, calibrated on 4 NOAA stations.
Active layer thickness
Stefan equation calibrated on the CALM Alaska network. Low/high range reflects seasonal and site variability.
Thaw risk score
Risk 0–1 mapped to zone class (continuous → isolated). Useful for rapid triage of infrastructure sites across a portfolio.
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