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  • Spire Officers: ADS-B Data Could Provide Government, Businesses With Geospatial Information - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire Officers: ADS-B Data Could Provide Government, Businesses With Geospatial Information

    Spire officers have detailed how global air traffic data collected from the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system on aircraft could be used by governments and businesses as a source of geospatial intelligence. ADS-B data contain an aircraft’s airspeed, location and other geospatial information that provide an understanding of the movement of people and cargo across the […] More

  • Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Businesses Address Tech Application, Commercial Mindset at SmallSat Symposium

    Maxar Technologies and its four businesses have participated at the four-day SmallSat Symposium that kicked off Monday in Mountain View, California, to present their new satellite platforms and discuss how they use new tools to build technology platforms designed to address space challenges. Dario Zamarian, group president of Maxar’s SSL business, discussed how the business […] More

  • DigitalGlobe to Extend Support for PSMA Australia's Continent-Wide Mapping Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe to Extend Support for PSMA Australia’s Continent-Wide Mapping Project

    An Australian government-owned company has awarded DigitalGlobe a follow-on contract to provide a geospatial content management platform for a mapping initiative that seeks to host information on more than 15 million buildings across Australia. PSMA Australia will implement DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform to generate geospatial content and location information for PSMA’s Geoscape continent-scale mapping product, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe platform general manager, said Geoscape […] More

  • Tech Firms Demo UAV Airspace Services; Shay Har-Noy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Firms Demo UAV Airspace Services; Shay Har-Noy Comments

    DigitalGlobe, Harris, PrecisionHawk and Verizon have combined their technologies to demonstrate airspace services the companies intend for use in unmanned aerial vehicle operations. PrecisionHawk said Monday the test incorporated Verizon’s LTE network, Harris’ Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast and aircraft surveillance network, DigitalGlobe’s geospatial big data platform and PrecisionHawk’s Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform. “We are leveraging […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Adds New Clients to Geospatial Big Data Platform; Sean Anklam, Shay Har-Noy Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Adds New Clients to Geospatial Big Data Platform; Sean Anklam, Shay Har-Noy Comment

    Exogenesis has subscribed to DigitalGlobe’s geospatial big data platform in a move to develop new products based on data analysis. DigitalGlobe will provide Exogenesis with access to its algorithms and library of high-resolution satellite imagery gathered over a 15-year period, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. Sean Anklam, president of Exogenesis, said the company intends for the DigitalGlobe […] More