Blacksky and Geoimage recently announced a partnership for global reseller operations in Australia.
The partnership will enable Geoimage to leverage BlackSky’s geospatial intelligence and imagery to offer real-time insights to customers across the government sector, as well as oil and gas, mining, exploration, agriculture and maritime industries, according to a Business Wire press release.
“Our agreement with Geoimage further underscores the value and impact of actionable geospatial intelligence across a range of industries," Nick Tabbal, vice president of Product and Services at BlackSky said in the release. “For example, Geoimage customers can automatically receive alerts on real-time anomalies, such as slowdowns in port operations, extract economic indicators from the data that’s been collected and promptly make informed decisions.”
Geoimage executives anticipate several benefits from the partnership.
“Geoimage’s customers rely on real-time geospatial intelligence for actionable insights so that they can achieve greater efficiency and improve outcomes," Tony Evans, managing director at Geoimage said in the release. “With BlackSky’s daily rapid-revisit imagery and automated feature-extraction capabilities we’re able to meet increased demand for first-to-know intelligence that serves our customers’ goals and objectives.”
Geoimage has provided satellite imagery and geospatial solutions on a regional basis for more than 30 years. Through the partnership, Geoimage will offer its customers access to BlackSky’s Spectra AI monitoring service. Spectra AI is powered by several technologies including machine learning, AI, computer vision and natural language processing.
Blacksky, which is based out of Herndon, Virginia, uses its satellites and the Earth's sensor network to monitor locations on behalf of its customers, according to the release. Their technology can create multiple images a day and works in a variety of conditions.
The company's products can be merged with a client's system or used in concert with its Spectra platform, the release stated.