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C3 AI provides over 40 turnkey Enterprise AI applications that meet the business-critical needs of global enterprises in manufacturing, financial services, government, utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, agribusiness, defense and intelligence, and more.  

Andrew Hoeft, the Senior Director of Strategic Solutions for C3.ai discusses their products that work through entire data fusion lifecycle, from any source data to transformation. He explains how that can work with virtually any type of data from free text to full motion video and get that data into a state that AI models can be applied to. With many possible use cases, C3.ai can get a production environment spun up in a matter of weeks and begin making mission impact and adding value in a matter of weeks.

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Adobe is the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. Their creative, marketing and document solutions empower everyone – from emerging artists to governments and global brands – to bring digital creations to life and deliver immersive, compelling experiences to the right person at the right moment for the best results. In short, Adobe is everywhere, and we’re changing the world through digital experiences.  

Adobe’s Industry Specialist, Jon Lewington, sat down with us to discuss the 3D modeling tools they recently announced and their new focus on the metaverse. He discusses what the metaverse means for the GEOINT community and how the merging of the physical and virtual worlds can make drastic shifts in the industry. Jon addresses the needs and problems of their customers that they are trying to serve with this new focus as well.

With the creation of distributed sensing and intelligence gathering capability, the Kleos satellites exploit rapidly deployed technologies to reduce risk and ensure that changing customer needs are fulfilled proactively by small, low cost satellites. Their engineers utilise propriety algorithms and data processing methodologies to ensure their unique data products can be used in conjunction with other data sources, mapping or GEOINT imagery to enhance the identification of dark maritime and land-based activity.  

Peter Round and Guillermo Gutiérrez, with Kleos, explain their unique services and why they choose to focus on the engineering and improvement on their constellation rather than analytics. They discuss the challenges facing the RF data industry and benefits of using that data.

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Google’s services helps governments and companies build a more prosperous and sustainable future for their organization with a comprehensive platform for geospatial workloads and applications that only Google can deliver.  

Jeff Spugnardi and Brady Allred, with Google, walk us through and discuss their Google Earth Engine analytic tool. They explained the expansion of the tool from humanitarian use cases to now enterprise use cases as well. With over 50 petabytes worth of imagery, Earth Engine tries to reduce the time collecting data and allow analysts to spend more time finding the answers they’re looking for.

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People have grown to believe that big data is unwieldy, cumbersome, slow. Tectonix  believes otherwise. They set out to deliver an unmatched data experience, where rapid response times and intuitive controls combine to yield actionable insights in seconds instead of hours. Traditional data tools are built to take a large data set, accept a narrowly defined query and provide the answer that the user thinks they're looking for. Tectonix sought to take a different approach. Instead, they start with the big picture, allowing their users to whittle down to the answers they seek. In doing so, users discover answers to questions along the way that they would never have thought to ask, generating actionable intelligence that would have otherwise gone undiscovered. Most analytics platforms can help you find a needle in a haystack — but when scaling your lens to start with hundreds of billions of data points becomes not just possible, but PRACTICAL, you'll be able to find every needle in every haystack and see how they all fit together.  

Mike DiMarco, with Tectonix, explains their large scale data visualization and how they are able to work with datasets in the hundreds of billions. Their frontend UI allows users to easily interact with the data at the speed of thought. He demonstrates how their scalability creates an environment where analysts can get core insights without having to wait hours.

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With plans to launch its first series of LEO constellations in 2023, HySpecIQ is positioned to become the world’s leading provider of airborne quality hyperspectral imagery and analytics from space. Their vision is to empower the most prominent intelligence, defense, and industry decision makers with insights and analytics to make safer, smarter, stronger, and more sustainable decisions.  

Dr. Katie Salvaggio, with HySpecIq, explains the value of hyperspectral imagery as compared to other spectral imagery.  She explains what drew her to work with hyperspectral imagery in particular and the unique proposition their data will provide to their customers.

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Phase One is the world’s leader in open-platform, high-end medium format camera systems and solutions. Their products are known for their quality, flexibility and speed enabling pro photographers to shoot in a wide range of formats. With the Phase One XF Camera System they have pushed the limits of what the world's best photography is made of! Their Capture One and Media Pro imaging software help streamline capture and post-production processes for both medium format and DSLR cameras.  

Dana Brow, with Phase One, discusses their camera systems and their geospatial applications. He walks us through several mapping systems that are able to go airborne and take aerial images. Their able to take images are varying altitudes for specific tasks and even create 3D maps of cities. He explains how they mitigate the logistical challenges that come with the need for capturing images at a high frame rate at high speeds.

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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.  

Tim Clayton, Director of Acquisition Oversight at the NGA, and Rick Myllenbeck, Industry Engagement Advisor at the NGA, discuss industry engagement and the procurement workflow at the agency. They touch on the best way for industry to work with government and the major mistakes the companies often make when working with government. Diving deeper, they explain the best way for small business to engage with the NGA and their relationship of with the Small Business Office.

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Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical world. Through our SaaS platform, they enable the analysis of earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience, while also supporting diverse federal government efforts to gather, analyze, and provide actionable insights from geospatial data.  

Descartes Labs Government’s President, Janie Robinson, describes the value of Descartes Labs’ government subsidiary and the work they do. She explains the new products and services they are offering, including helping the government utilize open source and commercially available data. Their ability to work with a variety of data types and run analytics is highly impactful and works to solve the hurdles in trusting machine learning in the industry.

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In this segment we have the honor of speaking with Dr. Shawana Johnson, President of Global Marketing Insights Inc. and Geospatial & Remote Sensing Industry Expert. Through her experiences we gain insight into not only what inspired her in her journey through the industry but what major roles she has played in helping shape it. Tune it to learn more.  

"Let's Talk Geo" is a Project Geospatial series where Adam Simmons interviews unique geospatial community individuals discussing everything from their latest product to how they got involved the industry.