DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works, NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to develop a web-based repository of satellite imagery and training data that could support the development of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. DigitalGlobe said Thursday the SpaceNet repository provides open access to curated, high-resolution satellite imagery that includes the company’s multi-spectral satellite imagery and 200,000 curated building footprints from Brazil. The imagery […] More

DigitalGlobe aims to help the Defense Intelligence Agency develop tools for analysis of mission-critical data from multiple sources as part of a potential five-year, $55 million contract DIA awarded last week. DigitalGlobe and its subsidiary GeoEye Analytics Inc. will work to deliver all-source analytic services to the agency, the company said Monday. “I’m excited to extend our partnership with the DIA, building […] More

DigitalGlobe and exactEarth have formed a strategic alliance to combine their big data and predictive analytics offerings as part of an effort to help combat illegal fishing activities. The partnership will combine DigitalGlobe’s commercial satellite imagery with exactEarth’s automatic identification system to help public sector customers perform maritime surveillance missions, exactEarth said Tuesday. “Illegal fishing costs […] More

Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the company works to analyze large amounts of satellite images and data through deep-learning tools and crowdsourcing, GCN reported Wednesday. Frazier told GCN columnist Patrick Marshall in an interview that OpenCV computer vision software library, Caffe deep-learning framework and NVIDIA graphics processors are some of the deep-learning systems […] More

Tony Frazier, senior vice president for government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has outlined his views on the impact of crowdsourcing on innovation and learning in the geospatial intelligence sector. Frazier wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that the company’s Tomnod community and USGIF GEOINT Hackathon competition are indicative of crowdsourcing’s disruptive role in the market. He noted that Tomnod […] More

DigitalGlobe has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to launch the Hootenanny open source project in an effort to offer developers software tools for crowdsourced mapping and geospatial big data analytics functions. DigitalGlobe said Monday Hootenanny features the interactive iD Editor interface for editing map features and the OpenStreetMap architecture for integrating geospatial big data. “Our human geography product […] More

DigitalGlobe and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation will co-host a hackathon event that focuses on geospatial intelligence. Tony Frazier, DigitalGlobe senior vice president of U.S. government solutions and one of the contest judges, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that the event would take place at the company’s Herndon, Virginia-based office from June 12 to 14. The hackathon […] More

The new joint venture between DigitalGlobe and Saab seeks to accelerate the companies’ existing work toward delivering a 3-D model of Earth using their combined technologies and partner on distribution efforts, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that the Vricon joint venture will integrate 3-D computer processing and satellite imaging technologies in efforts to meet the needs of […] More

Tony Frazier, senior vice president at DigitalGlobe, has said the company recently posted a tool called MrGeo to source code sharing site GitHub, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes DigitalGlobe developed the tool under the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s research and development program. The company also disclosed that it is developing fresh tools intended to help […] More

Satellite and geospatial imagery vendors such as DigitalGlobe have worked to utilize streaming technologies for data mining and analytics operations in environments with high volumes of available data, TechTarget reported Wednesday. Craig Stedman writes that the company has worked to integrate big data, cloud computing and stream processing technologies to deliver real-time analytics. DigitalGlobe’s InsightCloud service, which has gone through beta tests and will be […] More

Military and intelligence organizations are poised to leverage higher-resolution satellite images to drive innovation following the full implementation of the Commerce Department‘s new rule on the images’ global availability, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Adam Stone writes that as of last month, higher-resolution images can be sold globally to support various missions, including those of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the U.S. […] More

Tony Frazier became senior vice president of DigitalGlobe‘s government solutions business earlier this year and oversees the geospatial imagery provider’s work with U.S. government customers. Frazier, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, joined DigitalGlobe through its 2013 combination with GeoEye, where he led communications and marketing initiatives in an SVP role. In this conversation with […] More