DigitalGlobe moved all-in with AWS to meet the growing demand for commercial geo-intelligence, migrating its entire 17-year imagery archive to the cloud. DigitalGlobe is one of the world’s leading providers of high-resolution Earth imagery, data, and analysis. The company began its journey to the AWS Cloud with AWS Snowmobile, moving 100 petabytes of data to the cloud and allowing it to move away from large-file transfer protocols and delivery workflows. DigitalGlobe also uses Amazon SageMaker to handle machine learning at scale. Learn firsthand how DigitalGlobe is able to deliver massive amounts of data in weeks rather than months, save on costs, and reach customers everywhere.

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Pierre Izard
Senior Director, Content Strategy and Operations
Nate Ricklin
Director, Platform Engineering
Boulders From Space

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Agenda
• Maxar
• DigitalGlobe – our case for AWS
• Innovating in the Public Sector
• Space, Maps, and Access
• Staying Ahead
• Seeing a Better World

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Maxar and DG

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• Expert services leveraging cutting-edge
geospatial technologies
• Solutions deployed and supported on USG
and commercial clouds
• Leveraging Open Technologies developed
and implemented to deliver insights at scale
Persistent Surface Change Mapping, leveraging high frequency imaging
URCHN - Volunteer Geographic Mapping, targeted by change maps

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• Advanced Satellite Manufacturing with 60+
year heritage and 275+ satellites launched
• GEO and LEO Missions
• Partnered with DigitalGlobe to deliver
Legion

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Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM)
Launch: Nov 2018 Vandenberg, AFB
MDA Maritime Solutions leveraging Radarsat and RCM in 2019
• Advanced Satellite Manufacturing with 60+ year
heritage and 275+ satellites launched
• GEO and LEO Missions
• Partnered with DigitalGlobe to deliver Legion

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Innovating with the Public Sector since 1994
• Global Public Sector 60% of DigitalGlobe’s business
• Supporting transformative solutions globally with Civil
Mapping and Land Management agencies
• Strategic Customers in 50 MoDs Globally
• Mission partner to the US National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency for almost 20 years
• Received first Commercial Remote-Sensing license, 1994

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Domestic
• Partnered with the NGA to meet the
evolving GEOINT needs of the DoD,
Intelligence Community, Coalition, and
Federal/Civil Partners
• Leveraging hybrid cloud approaches to
deliver innovative and flexible Space,
Mapping, and Access capabilities at scale

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International
• DG products demonstrating power of cloud to produce
new economics and cadence
• Foundational and Tailored datasets all accelerated with
cloud technology
• Defense customers primarily leveraging on premise
solutions still but products like SecureWatch and Rapid
Access offer compelling alternatives to traditional
approaches
• Leveraging cloud-powered solutions to augment
mission capability and drive new scale and economics

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Development Organizations
• Seeking to make country-wide impacts,
building resilience
• “Leapfrogging” with Cloud to help address
UN Strategic Development Goals
• Enormous appetite for trusted geospatial
content, delivered at scale

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Tanzania – 20,000,000 structures
Independently verifiable population
density data generally poor in emerging
economies
Total Area of Interest (sq km)
• 945,087
Number of Buildings
• 18,588,871 million
Time to Deliver
• 3 weeks – end to end
Accuracy
• <10% false positives
• <10% false negatives

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Space, Maps, and Access
How DigitalGlobe is leveraging AWS to compete

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Space @ Scale
• WorldView Legion
- 3x capacity in high demand zones
- 3x 30cm capacity overall
- 4x intra day imaging opportunity
• Rebuilt ground segment into cloud native mission control, planning, and
sensor processing architecture
• Phased out 15 year monolithic architecture
• Drove full mission archive to AWS - literally
• Today all constellation imaging flowing to AWS with multi-region
redundancy
• All in with AWS – basic image formation pipeline and mission control
segment rolling fully to AWS

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Space
DG Level 1B Data
Bucket
DigitalGlobe
Unified Catalog
(DUC)
Amazon Glacier
Level 1B
“Firehouse”
Rapid Access/ Direct Access
EC2 – Compute Nodes
Amazon EBS
PostgreSQLDG Mission Systems

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Maps @ Scale
• Ground in Cloud means flexibility for large
scale mapping
• Don’t move the data – leverage AWS to
access and process
• No replication enables constant iteration on
production processes
- Seasonal filtering
- Single year filtering
- Time-series stacks
• Content consumption also enabled by AWS
– GBDX AI tools, remote web services,

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Maps Overview – Generation
• Usage
• License
• Delivery
Amazon API
Gateway
Elastic Load
Balancing*
SQS
ECS
EC2 RDS
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS
CloudFormation
S3 –
Finished
Product
DigitalGlobe Flame Engine
Archive
Vault
Glacier Hot Cache
DG Mosaics
DigitalGlobe
Online Content
DigitalGlobe
Content Exchange

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Access – Ideas @ Scale

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Access Overview
Optimized
Data Tiles
External
Data Bucket
Data
Normalization
Data Capture
and Ingest
Normalized Data
Archive
Vault
Glacier Hot Cache
DG Mosaics
DigitalGlobe
Online Content
DUC
PostgreSQL
DigitalGlobe Third Party Capture
External
Data
Source
DigitalGlobe Raster
Data Access (RDA)
Elastic Load
Balancing*

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On-the-fly ML with
SageMaker!

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Airplanes!

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Change Detection!

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Training & Curation Services

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Lessons from the journey
• Space, Map, and Access architectures all adopting AWS on different cadence
• Cultural shift - satellite companies inherently risk averse
- Hit the beach, burn the boats = not easy
• Focus on your value prop – Geospatial Heavy Lifting
- Natural fit with AWS, strong partnership creating synergies
• Engineer with the AWS product roadmap
- Don’t build commodity services
- Be prepared to dump projects and adopt the AWS alternative

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Build a Better World
World Refugee Day
20 June 2018

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Refugee Mapping Campaign
• Help map world refugee populations
• We are locating and tagging structures in known
refugee zones
- Tents
- Administrative
- Permanent
- Semi-Permanent
• Campaign results will drive machine learning
engines that will enable faster response to crisis,
improved resource allocations
Stanford Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab

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