DigitalGlobe,
a Maxar Technologies company announced a
partnership with Ecopia Tech
Corporation
(“Ecopia”) to know precisely where buildings
are by utilizing proprietary artificial
intelligence algorithms and innovative cloud
computing to create building footprints. By
using
Ecopia U.S. Building Footprints powered by
DigitalGlobe,
customers will have the most current and
accurate information on structures in their
areas of interest, enabling them to make
business decisions with unprecedented speed
and efficiency.
Ecopia, a developer in DigitalGlobe’s
Geospatial Big Data platform ecosystem,
established a process to create building
footprints quickly and at scale by
leveraging advanced machine learning in
combination with DigitalGlobe’s cloud-based
100 petabyte imagery library. This
innovative approach offers a welcome
alternative to outdated footprint sources
and the corresponding time-consuming and
expensive creation methods. Ecopia U.S.
Building Footprints powered by DigitalGlobe
provides actionable insights for observing,
analyzing, and monitoring business processes
like supply chain management, urban
planning, and asset monitoring for
industries such as energy, insurance, real
estate, telecom, and location-based
services. Starting with the United States,
the two companies will extract highly
accurate 2D building footprints across the
Earth, then refresh the datasets to find and
track change over time, which is valuable
information to businesses. Several national
service providers are already using the
building footprints in their
industry-leading applications.
“Ecopia is harnessing the cloud-based
computational power of GBDX to gain
immediate, on-demand access to
DigitalGlobe’s 18-year library of
high-resolution satellite imagery,” said
Bill Singleton, Ecopia Tech Corporation Vice
President. “Combining our algorithms with
DigitalGlobe’s technology allows Ecopia to
extract and update building footprints at a
scale and speed never before thought
possible.”
“Now, customers in a multitude of verticals
can quickly answer business-critical
questions instead of spending time creating
the data and information to answer those
questions,” said Dr. Shay Har-Noy,
DigitalGlobe Vice President of Unified
Platform. “Ecopia U.S. Building Footprints
powered by DigitalGlobe will become a
foundational data layer for all businesses
with an interest in how our world is built
and how it is changing over time.”
DigitalGlobe and Ecopia will extract every
building footprint in the United States by
mid-year 2018, and many major international
locations by the beginning of 2019. Ecopia
U.S. Building Footprints powered by
DigitalGlobe will be available off the shelf
or on-demand, with or without the source
high-resolution imagery, and will include
the option to subscribe to regular updates.
