What Does It Take to Find Culverts in a State? 

A state set out to locate its drainage ditches and culverts. Across an entire state, that’s a massive engineering undertaking. Vexcel Intelligence turned it into a search.

The conventional approach would involve extensive field surveys. Ryan Bank, Global Managing Director at Vexcel, estimates that surveying an entire state would cost tens of millions of dollars.

Vexcel Intelligence lets users search high-resolution aerial imagery using natural language. No custom AI models to build or train. Just ask a question.

Searches for “culverts” and “drainage ditches” returned results ranked by relevance, identifying locations based on features visible in Vexcel’s ortho and oblique imagery. Each result included a location and supporting aerial imagery with a collection timestamp. The searches produced results in seconds, helping narrow the scope of field surveys and reduce the time and cost of locating infrastructure.

For utilities, governments, and infrastructure owners, Vexcel Intelligence changes how they find, map, and manage assets across large areas.

“This is an example of how Vexcel Intelligence and the concept of real-world AI is transformational in how people think about a lot of projects.” -Ryan Bank, Global Managing Director, Vexcel