“It seems that, within the US government and elsewhere, there are agencies that want to have more and more access more times a day over the areas that they care about,” Jim Thomason, VP of Imagery Product at Planet told me in an interview this week.
By Theresa HitchensMQ-9B: A proven multi-mission, multi-domain UAS scaled to protect Europe and beyond
Flying MQ-9B in place of larger maritime patrol aircraft costs less and extends the sensing and endurance possible alongside those high-value platforms.
Maxar will provide updates and enhancements using “its sophisticated change detection model and deliver land cover and classification solutions.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“[T]he trend is that a larger percentage of our work will be able to be accomplished using commercial systems than in the past,” says Gauthier.
By Theresa Hitchens
NGA’s Global EGD program is a good example of how the 2017 bifurcation of authority over commercial remote sensing acquisition between the NGA and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) — a transition that remains somewhat troubled –is supposed to work.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: Australia used both black and white and multispectral satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe satellites shot on March 16 to search for the purported wreckage of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. A source familiar with the issues said DigitalGlobe supplied several types of imagery other than the black and white satellite photos. The Australians used multispectral but…
By Colin Clark
