DigitalGlobe, Esri and Harris have formed a partnership to offer ArcGIS customers access to a library of satellite imagery along with analytical and deep learning tools designed to help users gain insights from imagery at scale. The AllAccess+Analytics service combines DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform, Harris’ ENVI remote sensing analytics portfolio and Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 platform, DigitalGlobe said Monday. The […] More

DigitalGlobe has added three new companies to its roster of partners and customers that use the satellite imagery provider’s geospatial big data analytics platform. Lockheed Martin, PrecisionHawk and Video Inform are among the companies that joined DigitalGlobe’s GBDX ecosystem or extended their commitments in the fourth quarter of 2016, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. Lockheed uses GBDX in an effort to create commercial […] More

DigitalGlobe started to provide its first customer direct access to its Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite Wednesday following the completion of in-orbit test and calibration phase. DigitalGlobe said Friday it will add additional direct access clients to WorldView-4 service throughout this year and expects to provide satellite tasking and archive support to all customers in the second half of […] More

DigitalGlobe has announced that top five developers won $35,000 in total prizes as part of a challenge to develop machine learning algorithms through the use of high-resolution satellite imagery. DigitalGlobe said Tuesday the winning algorithms of the inaugural SpaceNet Challenge were selected out of 242 platforms submitted by 42 developers and will be released to […] More

DigitalGlobe has unveiled the first public image from the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite that carries a Harris-made imaging payload. The image was taken on Nov. 26 and features the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo which will host Olympic events in 2020, DigitalGlobe said Friday. Lockheed’s commercial launch services segment provided a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to […] More

DigitalGlobe received initial signals from Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite 45 minutes after it launched Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-4 with a Harris Corp.-made imaging payload took off aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket to join DigitalGlobe’s satellite constellation, Lockheed said Friday. Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed’s space systems business, said the WorldView-4 […] More

United Launch Alliance has set a Nov. 11 launch date to lift DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView-4 satellite into space on-board a ULA Atlas V rocket on Nov. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. ULA said Wednesday its team is working to address Atlas V booster issues discovered during final launch preparations. Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business built WorldView-4, which will work to […] More

Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the addition of geospatial information services contractor The Radiant Group to DigitalGlobe would help the latter build up its services business. Frazier wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that he expects the potential combination with Radiant to help DigitalGlobe’s intelligence solutions business expand its customer base […] More

Intelligence analysts must be able to access data from cloud computing platforms to support information-based services and insights for agencies, DigitalGlobe services business lead Tony Frazier told National Defense magazine in an article published Monday. Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe announced its $140 million acquisition of geospatial information services provider The Radiant Group Oct. 11 and will add 400 employees with secret security clearances with 250 of them software developers. […] More

DigitalGlobe, United Launch Alliance and the U.S. Air Force are evaluating a potential launch window of between late October and early November launch window for the WorldView-4 satellite. DigitalGlobe said Monday it has delayed the launch of WorldView-4 as work to restore and assess infrastructure at Vandenberg Air Force Base continues following a series of […] More

DigitalGlobe has made approximately 9.7 million square miles of 11.8-inch resolution commercial satellite imagery available through the company’s online base map. DigitalGlobe said Wednesday more than 500 population centers in the Basemap +Metro product are now available at 11.8-inch resolution as well as 1,700 cities available at 19.7-centimeter or better resolution. The company added its Basemap Suite of products now offers 57.9 […] More

DigitalGlobe has secured a one-year contract renewal from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to continue to provide U.S. government agencies on-demand access to the company’s satellite imagery through the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program. The company delivers imagery at multiple classification levels via a web browser or a mobile device to warfighters, the intelligence community and other government entities under the EnhancedView […] More