SensFish Marine Restoration Monitoring and Environmental Intelligence Platform

Artificial reef restoration is growing quickly across European waters, but the tools for measuring whether reefs work have not kept up. Reef performance is usually judged from dive surveys that take place months apart and are expensive to schedule. They capture snapshots and miss the ongoing environmental changes that decide whether a reef thrives or fails.

Fisheries compliance teams work from a separate set of tools. Vessel activity sits in one system, marine protected area boundaries in another and biodiversity data in a third. Nothing connects reef health evidence with vessel pressure data.

SensFish Ltd, a UK marine intelligence SME, builds proprietary environmental intelligence infrastructure for fisheries, coastal ecosystems and marine restoration. In this project, SensFish led the planning and development of a restoration intelligence capability for marine restoration stakeholders based in Denmark. It brings satellite Earth Observation, environmental monitoring, vessel activity, biodiversity information and geospatial analytics into one operational interface.

Astro42 worked alongside the SensFish technical and environmental intelligence team on selected engineering and implementation components: geospatial interface development, dashboard functionality, environmental and vessel activity data integration, and operational reporting workflows.

The platform gives users one interface for environmental observations, trends, vessel activity, site-level monitoring outputs and reporting tools. It is built for restoration assessment, environmental reporting and stakeholder communication across coastal and offshore sites.

Monitoring conditions and data availability vary widely in marine environments. The platform combines multiple environmental data layers and vessel activity datasets, and uses confidence-aware processing to stay transparent about how observations and outputs are presented.

Astro42 brought experience in geospatial systems, satellite data engineering and full-stack platform development. The team contributed to the dashboard's interactive mapping layer for reef sites, vessel tracks and protected area boundaries. It provided the expertise for data integration workflows across satellite Earth Observation, in-situ environmental measurements, vessel tracking sources and biodiversity records. It also supported the spatial engineering that processes vessel positions against global protected area datasets at operational scale.

The platform also supports forward-looking environmental monitoring and automated reporting for restoration stakeholders, environmental programmes and marine management teams.

Astro42 helped SensFish Ltd expand its marine restoration and environmental intelligence capabilities, with a user interface built around the workflows of restoration stakeholders and analyst teams. Restoration stakeholders, environmental teams and marine management organisations can now see environmental and vessel activity data together in one geospatial monitoring environment.

The project also produced scalable technical workflows for integrating Earth Observation, environmental monitoring, biodiversity and vessel activity data. They support future long-term ecosystem monitoring, restoration initiatives and stakeholder reporting.