Lt. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart, Director of Defense Intelligence Agency
They See Promising Results from Disruptive Technologies In his keynote speech, Director Cardillo referenced two projects—Beachfront and NOME—that our developers and analysts at DigitalGlobe | Radiant are honored to support. Beachfront is a means of generating automated shoreline data using a variety of imagery sources. The NSG Open Mapping Enclave (NOME) is a crowdsourced mapping platform that enables NGA customers on multiple security domains to extract roads, buildings and points of interest from satellite imagery and share data in the cloud. In these two clips, Director Cardillo shares how Beachfront and NOME are helping NGA extract information many orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than conventional methods.Robert Cardillo, Director of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
At Point of Arrival, These Capabilities Can Transform the Mission The government is recognizing its tremendous opportunity to take advantage of commercial innovation. Director Cardillo stated in his keynote that he aims to automate 75 percent of the repetitive tasks analysts perform in order to allow analysts to focus their time on higher order synthesis and pattern discovery. For this vision to become reality, our customers need to train effective algorithms to automatically recognize objects and activity; create scalable methods to enrich, store and index all of this data spatially and temporally; and develop analytic modeling tools able to reveal patterns by processing massive amounts of data. Our investments to advance research in the application of machine learning to remote sensing data to enable automation through open innovation initiatives like SpaceNet and our free Software Development Kit (SDK) DeepCore will play a role in realizing this future. DigitalGlobe Has Developed Robust Capabilities at the Heart of These Trends DigitalGlobe has been a pioneer in harnessing technologies like cloud computing, crowdsourcing, machine learning and big data analytics to transform global mapping and intelligence. We are delivering innovative solutions built to scale in the cloud that combine unique IP, an open architecture and an ecosystem-friendly business model. Over the next few weeks, we will publish a series of blog posts to share how DigitalGlobe is leading initiatives that respond to the calls to action outlined by leadership at GEOINT and will move our community forward:- Automation is the way of the future, and there are many commercial and open source capabilities that can be applied to GEOINT data to help intelligence analysts scale.
- Machine Learning requires an enormous amount of training data to yield effective results. We are leveraging our vast imagery archive and several patented technologies to create massive training data sets we can make available to accelerate algorithm development.
- DigitalGlobe has leveraged crowdsourcing since 2010 as a way to rapidly analyze satellite imagery. We are now leveraging this capability to rapidly validate machine learning algorithms to make them smarter over time.
- In our constantly changing world, current maps are key to mission success. DigitalGlobe is uniquely positioned to harness the explosion of public data sources to create foundation data sets like Human Landscape and collaborative mapping applications that create a living inventory of features on the planet.
- By using these various methods to create the DigitalGlobe, we now have the ability to enable analytic modeling for anticipatory intelligence to help analysts narrow the search space and gain early warning