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New Constellations, New Capabilities, and Future Opportunities

PETER KINNE

REGIONAL DIRECTOR

DIGITALGLOBE

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The Past

HOW FAR HAVE WE COME?

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1783 - Take couple of French Brothers - Montgolfier

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Rose to over 1,000 feet and then floated down.

Joseph-Michel

Jacques-Étienne

Carried a sheep, a rooster, and a duck.


1839 – Another French Guy - LOUIS DAGUERRE

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First Cameras required subjects to stand still 10 minutes per image.


1863 – Nadar – Balloon and Camera

Nadar’s real name Gaspard-Félix Tournachon

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1860 - World’s Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph

James Wallace Black (American, 1825–1896)

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1910 – Aerial Cameras and Aerial Photography

First used in World War I to photograph enemy troops and fortifications.

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1946 - First Images from Space

Vanguard program - USA using German V2 Rockets

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The Present


Resolution has Many Meanings

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Spatial Resolution - 80 cm to 20 cm

Spectral Resolution - 4 bands to 16 bands

(VNIR, SWIR, Thermal)

Temporal Resolution – Few days to Multiple times a day

Radiometric Resolution – Varying from 11 bits to 14 bits

Angular Resolution – Varying Off Nadir


Increasing spectral resolution

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Natural Color

wave refraction patterns and submerged aquatic vegetation

linear reefs

submerged aquatic vegetation

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Angular dimension – Extreme off-nadir shot

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Increasing positional accuracy of space observations

100m CE90 50m CE90 12m CE90 5m CE90


Information accuracy with data consistency

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Leverage crowd sourcing for scale

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Volume, Variety, Velocity and Veracity

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Data Volume

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> 500,000 pieces of space junk

Goddard Space Flight Center 2,271 satellites

>333 active EO satellites

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There has been more data created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of the human race.


2018 – Radarsat

• Three new Radar satellites

• Launch 2018

• Change detection

• Maritime

• Vegetation

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2020 – WorldView Legion

• Replaces WorldView 1, 2, 3, 4 GeoEye 1

• 30cm class

• Combination polar and inclined orbits

• 40 Revisits per day

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Inclined Orbit

Sun synch


Variety

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High-resolution satellite imagery

Building footprint extraction

High-resolution land cover map

Digital Surface Model—Elevation map

Roof material extraction

Spatial database w/ building attributes

Source: PSMA Australia


Veracity

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Road

Cricket Pitch

Building

Intersection

Tree

Car

Boat

Hotel

PortInformation

We Need Information, Not Data


before…


data

compute

How Do We Make That Scale?


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

GBDXLocation

IntelligenceDigitalGlobe Data

& Algorithms

SubscriptionAccess


If the idea has valueeven a small company can

perform analysis at the national or global scale

SWIMMING POOLS

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL

ROOF MATERIALS

BUILDING POLYGONS

ROOF COMPLEXITY

TREE HEIGHTSOLAR PANELS

ROOF HEIGHT

LULC


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


Ship Detection

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Application #1:Object Detection

• DigitalGlobe partner SpaceKnowspecializing 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


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


Building Footprints

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• DigitalGlobe partner Ecopiaspecializing in detection and extraction of building footprints from DigitalGlobe imagery

• Detection of features >3m2

• 1.25M-1.5M buildings per week


3D extraction/Height extraction

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• DigitalGlobe partners NTT, Harris and Istria/Grupo Revenga specialize in the creation of 3D information from

• .5m GSD, 3m LE90, 3m CE90 (Absolute), 1m LE90, 2m CE90 (Relative)

• Production of DSM and DEM at 10s of thousand of sqkm in days/weeks

• Height attribution to footprints possible • Ground elevation• Eave Height• Peak Height

• Further 3D detail possible with Istria


Road Density/Probability Estimation

• DigitalGlobe partner CrowdAIspecializes in detection of roads from DigitalGlobe imagery

• 100% automated• Accuracy metrics currently under

development• Detection of road features based on

input target areas of interest• Can scale to meet country scale needs

– effort required in up front training of the system


City Scale Change Detection

• DigitalGlobe partner 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


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


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


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


U.S. Government

GBDX is an Ecosystem

http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/2016/02/22/helping-facebook-connect-the-world-with-deep-learning/


In Summary

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• GBDX • Create location intelligence from satellite imagery at

massive scale• Automate monitoring of areas of interest• Effectiveness multiplier for analysis staff• Ecosystem provides best in class algorithms from

industry partners

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