> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wherobots.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Industry Use Cases

> Discover how organizations across industries can use Wherobots to unlock the value of spatial data at scale.

## Start With Your Question

Most spatial work starts as a business question, not a feature request. Open your industry to see the questions Wherobots answers, what each one produces, and the notebook that implements it.

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  <Accordion title="Land Monitoring & Catastrophe Prediction" icon="mountain" iconType="solid">
    **"Where has the land changed since our last survey, and how much?"**

    You get dated change polygons showing disturbance, clearing, or regrowth, by running a change detection model across multi-temporal satellite imagery instead of inspecting scenes by hand.

    <Card title="Change detection with RasterFlow" icon="arrows-rotate" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/rasterflow-changedetection">
      Compare imagery across dates and quantify what moved.
    </Card>

    **"Which of our operations fall inside protected areas or hazard zones?"**

    You get a flag on every operational boundary that overlaps a protected area, waterway, or hazard zone, from a single spatial join against regulatory boundaries.

    <Card title="Spatial joins in Wherobots" icon="object-intersect" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/part-4-spatial-joins">
      Join asset footprints against boundary datasets at scale.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Facility Management" icon="building" iconType="solid">
    **"Which buildings in our portfolio have roof conditions that affect insurability?"**

    You get per-building detections with confidence scores, joined back to your asset records, by describing the feature in a text prompt and running SAM3 geometry inference over sub-meter aerial imagery.

    <Card title="Detecting objects from text prompts" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/rasterflow-sam3">
      Describe a feature in words and get georeferenced geometries back.
    </Card>

    **"Which sites in our portfolio carry the most location risk?"**

    You get a risk score per facility, ranked across the whole portfolio, by overlaying site locations with flood zones, storm history, and hazard layers.

    <Card title="Exploring storm data" icon="cloud-bolt" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/noaa-swdi">
      Correlate NOAA severe weather records with your locations.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Site Selection" icon="location-dot" iconType="solid">
    **"How many customers can reach each potential new site in 15 minutes?"**

    You get drive-time catchments for every candidate, with population and competitor counts inside each, by generating isochrones in batch and spatial-joining them to demographic and POI data.

    <Card title="Making drive time isochrones" icon="clock" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/isochrones">
      Build travel-time polygons for thousands of locations at once.
    </Card>

    **"Where are competitors densest, and where is the gap?"**

    You get competitor counts and market saturation around every candidate site, by joining candidate locations against POI datasets and clustering the results.

    <Columns cols={2}>
      <Card title="Foursquare Places" icon="location-dot" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/foursquare-places">
        Work with POI data to map the competitive landscape.
      </Card>

      <Card title="DBSCAN clustering" icon="circle-nodes" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/clustering-dbscan">
        Find natural groupings in demand and competitor locations.
      </Card>
    </Columns>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Fleet Logistics" icon="truck-fast" iconType="solid">
    **"Are drivers deviating from the most optimized routes?"**

    You get every trip snapped to real road segments, with true distances and the deviations flagged, by map-matching raw GPS traces against the road network at fleet scale.

    <Card title="Matching vehicle GPS data to road networks" icon="route" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/gps-map-matching">
      Snap noisy GPS traces to the roads they were actually driven on.
    </Card>

    **"Which trips look anomalous and deserve a second look?"**

    You get a ranked list of outlier trips and GPS points, by applying Local Outlier Factor to your trajectory data rather than eyeballing dashboards.

    <Card title="Local Outlier Factor" icon="triangle-exclamation" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/local-outlier-factor">
      Surface spatial outliers that summary statistics hide.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Agriculture & Forestry" icon="tractor" iconType="solid">
    **"What can I infer about crop yield for a future season?"**

    You get per-field vegetation trajectories across the growing season, the input a yield model needs, by mosaicking Sentinel-2 imagery over time and summarizing it inside detected field boundaries.

    <Columns cols={2}>
      <Card title="Building Sentinel-2 mosaics" icon="layer-group" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/rasterflow-s2-mosaic">
        Assemble cloud-free imagery across an area and a season.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Detecting field boundaries" icon="border-all" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/rasterflow-ftw">
        Delineate every field so metrics can be summarized per parcel.
      </Card>
    </Columns>

    **"How much tree canopy do we have, and where is it declining?"**

    You get a canopy height surface plus per-parcel and per-zone summaries, by estimating height with RasterFlow and aggregating it with zonal statistics.

    <Columns cols={2}>
      <Card title="Estimating canopy height" icon="tree" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/rasterflow-chm">
        Predict tree heights from aerial imagery.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Zonal statistics" icon="chart-area" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/zonal-stats-esaworldcover-texas">
        Summarize raster values inside your own boundaries.
      </Card>
    </Columns>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Insurance & Risk" icon="shield-halved" iconType="solid">
    **"How much of our property portfolio sits within a flood zone and how much asset value is exposed?"**

    You get exposed parcel counts and assessed value at risk, broken out by city and hazard zone, by spatial-joining policy or parcel records against FEMA hazard polygons in WherobotsDB.

    <Card title="California coastal flood risk" icon="house-flood-water" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/california-coastal-flood-risk-analysis">
      Quantify parcels and assessed value inside FEMA flood zones.
    </Card>

    **"Are our risks quietly concentrating somewhere dangerous?"**

    You get statistically significant hotspots rather than visual clusters, by applying Getis-Ord Gi\* to claims, losses, or insured values across your book.

    <Card title="Hotspot detection" icon="fire" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/getis-ord-gi*">
      Separate real concentrations from noise with Getis-Ord Gi\*.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Environmental Monitoring" icon="earth-americas" iconType="solid">
    **"What is this watershed actually made of, and how is it shifting?"**

    You get land cover composition per watershed, district, or custom boundary, comparable across years, by classifying land cover at 10 m resolution and summarizing it by zone.

    <Columns cols={2}>
      <Card title="Exploring ESA WorldCover" icon="earth-americas" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/esa-worldcover">
        Classify land cover at 10 m resolution anywhere on earth.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Zonal statistics" icon="chart-area" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/zonal-stats-esaworldcover-texas">
        Roll land cover up to the boundaries you care about.
      </Card>
    </Columns>

    **"How do we work with satellite imagery without downloading any of it?"**

    You get to query, filter, and process imagery collections in place, by reading STAC-compliant catalogs directly into WherobotsDB.

    <Card title="STAC reader and API" icon="database" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/stac-reader">
      Search and load imagery collections without moving files.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Last Mile Delivery" icon="dolly" iconType="solid">
    **"Are existing sidewalks viable pathways for autonomous or human delivery?"**

    You get the pedestrian network as routable geometry, with gaps and discontinuities visible, so you can judge which segments carry a delivery robot or a courier on foot.

    <Card title="Detecting sidewalks with RasterFlow" icon="person-walking" horizontal href="/tutorials/example-notebooks/rasterflow-tile2net">
      Turn detected pathways into vector geometry you can route on.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Every industry: keeping the answer current" icon="clock-rotate-left" iconType="solid">
    **"How do we keep our analysis from going stale without re-running it by hand?"**

    You get a scheduled pipeline that refreshes the result on its own cadence and alerts you when it fails, by orchestrating the notebook or SQL job from Airflow.

    <Card title="Wherobots Airflow provider" icon="wind" horizontal href="/develop/airflow-provider">
      Run notebooks, SQL, and job runs on a schedule.
    </Card>
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Solutions gallery

Wherobots powers geospatial analytics and AI for organizations that depend on location intelligence. From monitoring land change to keeping a fleet on route, Wherobots delivers the spatial compute, data integration, and AI capabilities these workflows demand.

Each page below maps an industry's workflows to the Wherobots features and runnable example notebooks that support them.

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  <Card title="Land Monitoring & Catastrophe Prediction" icon="mountain" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/land-monitoring-catastrophe-prediction">
    Land change detection, hazard exposure modeling, compliance checks, and vegetation analysis across large footprints.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Facility Management" icon="building" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/facility-management">
    Building analytics, portfolio risk scoring, space planning, and infrastructure assessment across distributed properties.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Site Selection" icon="location-dot" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/site-selection">
    Trade area analysis, demographic scoring, competitive mapping, and accessibility evaluation for optimal location decisions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fleet Logistics" icon="truck-fast" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/fleet-logistics">
    GPS map matching, route adherence, fleet analytics, and road infrastructure monitoring at scale.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Agriculture & Forestry" icon="tractor" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/agriculture">
    Field boundary detection, crop monitoring, canopy height estimation, and land cover classification from satellite imagery.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Insurance & Risk" icon="shield-halved" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/insurance">
    Catastrophe exposure analysis, underwriting enrichment, weather analytics, and portfolio concentration monitoring.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Environmental Monitoring" icon="earth-americas" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/environmental-monitoring">
    Change detection, climate analytics, habitat mapping, and water resource monitoring at continental scale.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Last Mile Delivery" icon="dolly" iconType="solid" href="/tutorials/use-cases/last-mile-delivery">
    Pedestrian network mapping, delivery zone modeling, drop-off resolution, and coverage maps for the final leg of the delivery journey.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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