DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data Platform
Enabling New Commercial Solutions
DigitalGlobe, Inc. announced an agreement to
provide another innovative commercial customer
with access to its Geospatial Big Data (GBD)
platform, paving the way for new analytic
products serving the insurance, forestry, oil &
gas, and mining industries.
DigitalGlobe’s cloud-based GBD offering is a Platform
as a Service model that provides easy access to
DigitalGlobe’s vast ImageLibrary. It is designed to
create a new ecosystem in which partners and developers
can leverage their expertise and API’s to create new
customer solutions without the cost of owning and
operating costly IT infrastructure. The GBD platform is
one of the strategic initiatives propelling DigitalGlobe
toward its vision of becoming the indispensable source
of information about our changing planet.
Exogenesis, a provider of advanced analytics,
algorithm development, and predictive modeling and
simulation, has subscribed to DigitalGlobe’s GBD service
to facilitate new product development enabled by
large-scale data analysis. The agreement includes access
to algorithms, expertise, and petabytes of
high-resolution satellite imagery collected over the
past 15 years. DigitalGlobe customers Orbital Insight
and Cuende have also subscribed to the service and are
introducing unique products to their commercial markets.
“Exogenesis is thrilled to have the opportunity to
work with DigitalGlobe, the biggest name in commercial
satellite imagery,” said Sean Anklam, President of
Exogenesis. “As an early adopter of DigitalGlobe's
Geospatial Big Data platform, we will be able to provide
the most advanced decision support information derived
from source imagery of the highest quality."
“It’s a privilege to bring our Geospatial Big Data
capabilities to the market with an innovative partner
like Exogenesis,” said Dr. Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe’s
Senior Director for Geospatial Big Data. “We are
committed to investing in Geospatial Big Data in order
to create a living digital inventory of the surface of
the earth, enabled by our unmatched satellite
constellation, commitment to ecosystem partners, and
ability to convert imagery at scale into searchable,
analytics-ready information layers.”