GBDX: DigitalGlobe’s Big Data Platform...DigitalGlobe® Proprietary and Business Confidential...
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GBDX: DigitalGlobe’s Big Data Platform
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DigitalGlobe is leading the imagery industry with high resolution imagery & geospatial analytics
IKONOS® .82 meter resolution
1999 - 2015 9 m CE90
QuickBird® .65 meter resolution
2001 - 2015 23 m CE90
WorldView-4® .30 meter resolution
2016 <3.0 m CE90
WorldView-3® .30 meter resolution
2014 <3.0 m CE90
WorldView-2® .46 meter resolution
2009 <3.5 m CE90
GeoEye-1® .46 meter resolution
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WorldView-1® .50 meter resolution
2007 <4 m CE90
AVAILABLE VIA IMAGERY LIBRARY
CURRENTLY IMAGING IN ORBIT
DigitalGlobe has an archive going back to 1999, and continues to collect a large amount of imagery every day
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DigitalGlobe collections over a 3 day period
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DigitalGlobe collections over a 2 week period
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DigitalGlobe collections over a 3 month period: covers almost 75%-80% of the world
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3,500,000 km2 collected EVERY DAY
13,200,000,000,000 pixels
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All 30-50 cm resolution Multi- and Super-Spectral Capabilities
DigitalGlobe collects more than 3.5 million km2 of imagery every day: this is big data
Petabyte Archive 100
DigitalGlobe’s entire archive amounts to 100 PB of data
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Satellite imagery is more than a pretty picture, it has information and intelligence hidden inside
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Sometimes it is difficult to extract the information from middle to lower resolution images
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And you need high resolution images to understand the information inside– and extract value from the pixels
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How Do We Get The Information Out?
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DigitalGlobe has made the investment to team up with Amazon to build a “super
computer” in the cloud that can enable easy access to the entire archive,
combined with a powerful computing capabilities
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The Geospatial Big Data Platform (“GBDX”)
…to extract location intelligence at high speed & massive scale
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Other Commercial & Open Sources
Partner Data & Algorithms
GBDX Location
Intelligence DigitalGlobe Data
& Algorithms
Subscription Access
GBDX combines data access to satellite imagery with access to innovative algorithms to develop new solutions to tackle new market segments
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Summary of Key Concepts
• Access to DigitalGlobe’s entire archive, Landsat, Sentinel, Radarsat, and your own data (aerial, drone, vector).
• Ability to develop your own algorithm for internal use, or for sale to external users to build a revenue share model
• Ability to take advantage of already built algorithms to solve your business problems, or to build new markets
• Pricing is based on how much data you store, and how much computing power you use
• Imagery data is not delivered and licensed. The imagery is only rented out temporarily in the cloud while analysis is conducted, and only analysis results are delivered and licensed to GBDX users.
These are the important concepts that allow customers to conduct analysis at scale to delivery new and innovative solutions
supports spatial analysis at
CONTINENTAL SCALE
GBDX
This is an example where GBDX was used to deliver a smart city analysis
solution for the entire continent of Australia
What are we delivering?
Through the use of GBDX, several different attributes were extracted from satellite imagery to include in the Geoscape database
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GeoScape – a fundamentally new way to represent the built environment
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» Land management for federal/state/local governments
» Urban Planning
» Real Estate
» Insurance
» Disaster Management
» Telco management
DATABASE APPLICATIONS
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Each of the attributes have value for insurance, land management, and disaster related applications
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GBDX = Ecosystem
The value of GBDX is increased by the creation of an ecosystem that combines multiple partner capabiliites
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GBDX has a thriving ecosystem
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GBDX enables a broad range of use cases leveraging DigitalGlobe‘s
ecosystem of partners
U.S. Government
GBDX now consists of more than 40 different partners who offer unique advantages
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Object Detection to support Airport & Aircraft monitoring
• DigitalGlobe internally develop capability specializing in detection of aircraft at an airfield
• 100% automated, no man in the loop
• Over 1M sqkm of airfields processed using GBDX, DigitalGlobe imagery and DigitalGlobe aircraft detection algorithm
DigitalGlobe has internally developed the capability to extract different types of aircraft
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Ship Detection
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Application #1: Object Detection
• DigitalGlobe partner SpaceKnow specializing in detection of maritime vessels from DigitalGlobe imagery
• 100% automated, no man in the loop
• Over 1M sqkm of ports processed using GBDX, DigitalGlobe imagery and SpaceKnow ship detection
We also have partners who specialized in the detection of ships
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Car Detection
• DigitalGlobe partner Video inform specializing in detection of dynamic objects (such as cars) from DigitalGlobe imagery
• 100% automated, no man in the loop • Encounters challenges with HVAC
units, shadowed streets • Projects performed on border areas,
retail areas to estimate foot traffic for stores
Car detection capabilities have also been developed for business intelligence purposes
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Building Footprints
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• DigitalGlobe partner Ecopia specializing in detection and extraction of building footprints from DigitalGlobe imagery
• Detection of features >3m2
• 1.25M-1.5M buildings per week
Building foot pints have proven to be fundamental for mapping solutions, telco, and disaster management applications
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Coastline Detection & Extraction
• DigitalGlobe partner Blue Cham specializes in extraction of coastline polylines from DigitalGlobe multispectral imagery
• semi automated • No accuracy metrics developed to
date • One recent project: 1TB of imagery
collected over 7 years processed to create 1000km of coastline in 1 week
We also have partners who take advantage of multispectral imagery analysis to extract coastlines
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Population Detection & Mapping
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• DigitalGlobe developed capability to detect settlements in developing nations
• fully automated • Recent Project: 1.2M sqkm
processed in 2 hours • ~1-2 weeks to collect
necessary input training data and to perform accuracy assessment
Population mapping has also been automated to understand where people live, which is critical for project planning for a number of organizations, including Facebook.
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Land Cover Mapping
• DigitalGlobe has developed a series of methods to perform land cover mapping
• semi automated and fully automated
• Automated tools can be applied at a very high scale
• Semi automated tools are dependent on human operators
Traditional applications in remote sensing have also been included as capabilities of GBDX to perform land cover classification mapping at scale
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City Scale Change Detection
• MDA specializes in detection of change from MDA Radarsat-2 data
• 100% automated • Detection of changes highly
tailored to target features of interest
• Can scale to meet monitoring efforts with a 24 day refresh
We also enable radar based algorithms to perform large scale change detection
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Summary of Features Roads
Buildings Cars
Aircraft Ships
Coastlines Change (Urban)
Land Cover Population/settlement maps
3D information
This is only the beginning of satellite imagery based big data analytics, and summary list of features below will only grow going forward. What will you develop using GBDX?
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