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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.
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1839 – Another French Guy - LOUIS DAGUERRE
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First Cameras required subjects to stand still 10 minutes per image.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Veracity
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Road
Cricket Pitch
Building
Intersection
Tree
Car
Boat
Hotel
PortInformation
We Need Information, Not Data
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before…
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data
compute
How Do We Make That Scale?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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U.S. Government
GBDX is an Ecosystem
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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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