Project Geospatial

Satellogic is a leading provider of high resolution satellite imagery. They drive real outcomes for our customers with daily, actionable, planetary-scale insights you can trust. Their low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation and product platform deliver geospatial data at the right cost, making Earth Observation data accessible and affordable to enable better global decision-making. With more than 200 satellite engineers, operators and product specialists, they are on a mission to deliver a fundamentally better picture of our planet and the many forces that reshape it every day. They bring space down to earth for large enterprises and governments of all sizes who need to see for themselves how our world is changing.  

Ryan McKinney, Vice President and General Manager for Satellogic North America, and Thomas VanMatre, Vice President of Global Business Development, discuss what products and services they provide including their multispectral and hyperspectral data. They also discuss how their business model works towards their goal of democratizing access to imagery.

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Anyone who sails a ship, flies an aircraft, goes into harm’s way, makes national policy decisions, responds to disasters, or navigates with a cellphone, all rely on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, that provides a decisive advantage to warfighters, policymakers, intelligence professionals and first responders. Both an intelligence agency and a combat support agency, NGA fulfills the president’s national security priorities in partnership with the intelligence community and Department of Defense.  

Kathy Wever, Director of the Talent Development Office with the NGA, explains the skill sets and interests the agency is looking for in recent college graduates. She also elaborated on some academia partnerships that are making strides in diversifying the GEOINT community and getting more people interested in the field. And she even shared a personal story about working with youth to inspire the next generation of GEOINT professionals.

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Anyone who sails a ship, flies an aircraft, goes into harm’s way, makes national policy decisions, responds to disasters, or navigates with a cellphone, all rely on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence, or GEOINT, that provides a decisive advantage to warfighters, policymakers, intelligence professionals and first responders. Both an intelligence agency and a combat support agency, NGA fulfills the president’s national security priorities in partnership with the intelligence community and Department of Defense.  

Rob Shields, the Director of Analytic Technologies at the NGA, talks about the technology they develop to support the analysts. As part of the office that provides the needs and prioritizes the solutions they need from providers, he discusses the types of tools that analysts prefer. He also describes the change he’s seen in the culture with the recent emphasis placed on the collaboration and innovation at the Moonshot Labs.

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As a leading location intelligence platform provider (Forrester Wave 2020), Esri empowers leaders with innovative tools to help create sustainable prosperity. Esri's customers drive digital transformation by embracing the power of location,  

Stuart Penninger, a Solution Engineer at Esri, tells us about the ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine. He discusses how their tool allows users to access massive amounts of data from virtually anywhere. His demonstration walks us through an analyst’s workflow and emphasizes the speed and ease-of-use of their system and how impactful it is for analysts in the industry. He also explains the skillsets needed to work with the application and the learning curve users may face.

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Magadia Consulting is dedicated to providing a level of service that is unparalleled in todays' demanding technological marketplace. Their teams of specialists help businesses stay ahead of the curve by overcoming their IT challenges, delivering flexible & project-based managed solutions, and staff augmentation services. One of Magadia's founding principles is to deliver quality systems quickly. They achieve this through a commitment to excellence that is shared by every Magadia professional.  

From Magadia Consulting Inc we spoke with Debra Wickert, Leroy Burney, and Mark David Jones to discuss their speciality in consulting on IT work and their own unique experiences that bring to their customers. They reviewed their favorite technology from the symposium and new positive trends they’ve noticed along with the obstacles they see coming around the corner.

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Pixxel is a space technology company working towards creating the world's highest resolution hyperspectral imaging satellite-imaging constellation. The images gathered by Pixxel's satellites will provide up-to-date information relevant to climate monitoring, crop yield prediction, urban planning, and disaster response.  

Pixxel’s Aakash Parekh discusses the importance of hyperspectral data in the industry to unlock crucial information across the spectrum. Their 5 meter hyperspectral constellation aims to gain global coverage with a daily revisit. He explains their business model and how customers are able to gain access to their data. Aakash continued on to describe the critical use cases that hyperspectral data excels at compared to other sources.

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At the core of Cesium’s mission is to advance 3D geospatial through openness, community, and collaborations. Cesium is an open platform for creating 3D applications that are fast, flexible, and based on real-world geospatial data.  

Brady Moore, Director of Mission Support with Cesium, describes their applications for geospatial visualization. He demonstrates their 3D Tiles Next software and how it helps expose metadata at runtime. Brady also discusses the specific use cases that this software can enhance. Their other demonstration of CesiumJS shows the software’s ability to create virtual 3D models from open source data.

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Hydrosat provides daily, high-resolution thermal and multispectral infrared imagery of the entire Earth. Thermal allows you to visualize heat and reveal unseen truths that visual imagery can’t detect. Leveraging their first-in-history thermal capabilities, they also provide analytics solutions to solve climate and agriculture issues.  

Hydrosat’s Co-Founder and CEO, Peter Fossel, sat down with Adam with talk about their upcoming launch of their first satellite. He went on to discuss why they chose to focus specifically on infrared as opposed to other parts of the spectrum, such as visible or SAR. Their sub field level resolution helps them get a clearer  snapshot than even Landsat which sits at about 120 meters per pixel. And their always-on monitoring eliminates the need for tasking and allows users to access data from any time slot.

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Rendered.ai is a platform-as-a-service for data scientists, data engineers, and developers who need to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data generation for machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias, security, and privacy issues when compared with the use or acquisition of real-world data.  

Nathan Kundtz, CEO of Rendered.ai, discusses the importance and need for synthetic data and the specific challenges it solves, particularly in the GEOINT community. He goes on to address the negative stereotypes of synthetic data and the successes that can be achieved with it. He describes the different types of imagery data they have been able to produce including SAR, infrared, and even hyperspectral. He also explores the obstacles the industry still needs to address in regards to AI and ML in the industry.

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GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.  

Marc Kriz, a Strategic Account Leader with GitLab, discusses the work his National Security Programs group does with government organizations. Their single end-to-end DevSecOps platform is key to developing software both quickly and securely. With remote work becoming more and more common, even in the intelligence community, GitLab is building tools to mitigate many of the challenges that come with that shift.

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