The document discusses BlackSky's global geospatial monitoring capabilities using an elastic platform infrastructure. It provides examples of BlackSky monitoring recent global events like conflicts in Syria and reconstruction in Saudi Arabia. BlackSky uses elastic search capabilities for geospatial cataloging, analytics, order tracking and reporting, and monitoring across its global intelligence platform.

1. Scott Herman
Chief Technology Officer
sherman@BlackSky.com
Data from Orbit:
Global Geospatial
Monitoring with
Elastic
Kevin Rioles
Platform Infrastructure
krioles@BlackSky.com

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BlackSky Monitors the Globe…

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Turkish incursion into Syria – a few hours ago…

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Post-strike reconstruction at Saudi Aramco (Abqaiq)

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Quasoura Airbase, UAE

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Barcelona Harbor, Spain

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Barcelona, Spain – using Globals 1-4
Global-1 Global-2
Global-3 Global-4

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BlackSky Monitors Activities…

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Alerts for Global Monitoring via streaming data feeds, APIs, & eMail

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Iranian Arms Smuggling – Container ship captured by LNA
Iranian container ship can be seen detained at port,
With active cranes unloading cargo.

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Iranian Arms Smuggling – Container ship captured by LNA
BlackSky Analyst Cell used the BlackSky platform
to quickly assemble an intelligence report.

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Economic activity at Port Hedland in Australia
ML/AI analytics determining
iron ore pile volumetrics and
ore ship movements

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Anticipatory Intelligence: Predicting Port Congestion with IoT Data
Port and Commodity Monitoring – Western Australia Iron Ore
IoT Device Tracking from Mine to Ship to Port provides unique insights

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Ridgecrest Earthquake (July 2019)
Note initial alert, ”shake map”, and critical infrastructure points

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BlackSky Monitors Sites & Facilities…

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Esfahani Airport, Kermanshah, Iran

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Nagurskoye Air Base, Arctic Circle (Russia)

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BlackSky Monitors Sites & Facilities

23. Pattern-of-Life Anomalies at Shagol Air Base

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BlackSky Monitors Sites & Facilities

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BlackSky Global Intelligence Platform
Continuous Collection and Insights of High-Value Global Activity
BlackSky Constellation
3rd Party Satellites
News, Financial,
Industry Pubs,
Social Media
3rd Party Sensors,
IoT, & Mobile
• Activity Alerts
• Risk/Threat Reports
• Change Alerts
• Location Based
Insights
High Revisit
Imagery
Indications &
Warnings
AI & Machine
Learning
Change
& Anomaly
Detection
Anticipatory
Tasking & Collection
Reporting &
Alerting
Global
Activity
Monitoring
Change
Detection
Predictive
Analytics
BlackSky
Global
Intelligence
Platform

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Conceptual Architecture
Event
Enrichment
Event
Correlation
Marketplace
Order Mgmt
Foundation
Site Mgmt
APIs
Channel
Mgmt
Events Sites Orders
Narrative Pipeline
Context Mgmt
Events
Sites
Tracks
Spectra
Channel Feeds
Brokered
Virtual Constellation
Collection
Recommender
Customer
Applications
Analysts
Operators
Email Alerts
CONFLICT
CRIME
OUTBREAK
DISASTER
MILITARY
ENERGY
ECONOMY
CONSTRUCTION
IMAGERY
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Imagery Analytics Pipeline
Instrumentation Pipeline
Tracker Pipeline
Image Processing Pipeline
Event
Generation
Catalog
Monitor & Harvest
Global Sensor Data
Detect Events
& Anomalies
Geospatial Event
Correlation & Fusion
Publish and
Subscribe
Course of Action
& Collection
Report
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Elastic is a key component of BlackSky
Example of a large geospatial query – continent-sized
polygon searches can result in a search of 10’s Millions
of shaped entities with results rendered visually of
100K+ resulting polygons in <2 seconds

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How BlackSky uses Elastic…
Daily inflows &
outflows of Iron Ore
from Port Walcott
• Geospatial Catalog
• Analytics
• Order Tracking and Reporting
• Monitoring

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Geospatial Catalog
• Multiple vendors
• Rapid Geospatial searches across one or more vendors
• Allows for nearly endless growth
• Include current and estimated sizes?

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Analytics
• Open Source data feeds providing geospatially discoverable
information related to imagery locations
• Customizable event channel information

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Order Tracking & Reporting – Bandar Abbas collection
Add Bander Abbas Image
• Leverages Kibana objects to track and report on
imagery orders
• Provides senior executive view into current status
of imagery by satellite

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Monitoring
• Logging
• All ec2 instances run filebeat and metricbeat
• Select ec2 instances also run packetbeat
• All other AWS logs are harvested using logstash
• CloudWatch Logs
• VPC Flow Logs
• Load Balancer Logs
• CloudFront Logs
• Monitoring
• All alarms are sent to Slack and/or Pager Duty
• EC2 instance running heartbeat monitors both
internal and external services
• Watchers configured on the various clusters
• Analytics ingestion status
• Catalog ingestion status
• Multitude of watchers configured to alarm
on metrics sent to the ELK cluster

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SCOTT HERMAN
Chief Technology Officer
BlackSky / Spaceflight Industries
sherman@BlackSky.com