DigitalGlobe Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Dr. Walter Scott provided closing keynote remarks at the NVTC 2017 Capital Data Summit. In his presentation (attached), Dr. Scott discussed how satellite imagery and remote sensing are harnessing big data at a global scale. He explained trends that are enabling large scale analytics and shared how DigitalGlobe’s imagery and analytics solutions are being put into practice to serve a variety of customers and social causes.

1. See a better world.™
Harnessing Big Data at Planetary Scale

2. How we got here…

3. It began with global transparency
Soviet Launch Facility
… for a few

4. SPOT brought transparency to a broader audience
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Chernobyl
May 1986
SPOT-1
10m/20m GSD

5. The modern industry was born in 1992
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Moore’s Law
1992 Land Remote Sensing Policy ActEnd of the Cold War
Idle HandsSatellite Technology

6. Today, remote sensing is becoming ubiquitous
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7. It’s a BIG planet
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8. Enabling Analytics at Global Scale
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9. The data management challenge
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10. The data management challenge
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11. Our scale envelopes the rest of the industry
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AirbusD&S
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21AT
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QinetiQSpace
BluePlanet
AxelSpace
Planet
OmniEarth
AquilaSpace
PlanetaryResources
NorthStar
HeraSystems
BlackSkyGlobal
Satellogic
TerabytesperDayCollected
Operational Funded Seeking Funding
Pan Res. .31m .50m .80m .70m .50m .55m <1m .70m 1m.40m 3-5m2.5m 2m 2.5/22m 10/15m TBD 1-2m1m 1-2m
<1m resolution points + area >1m resolution area
~1m resolution
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13. We captured these data boulders …
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But they were stuck “in jail”

14. Engineering the jailbreak
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15. Three trends have enabled large scale analytics
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1. Elastic cloud computing

16. How do we get 100 PB into the cloud?
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300 years (home broadband)
6–18 months (DirectConnect)
X 1,400

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18. … or a bigger “snowball”
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– a Snowmobile

19. Three trends have enabled large scale analytics
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hidden layer 1 hidden layer 2 hidden layer 3
2. Deep Learning
Excels at pattern
recognition

21. Three trends have enabled large scale analytics
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3. Crowdsourcing
Train the machine
QA its output

22. Our crowd trains AI at massive scale
9 MILLION
TOMNOD VISITORS
670,000
REGISTERED EMAILS
19 MILLION
TAGS PLACED
1,200,000,000 km2
SATELLITE IMAGERY
VIEWED BY THE CROWD
500,000
AI training images
extracted
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23. Harnessing Remote Sensing at Global Scale
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24. Building country-scale geo databases
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~15,000,000 structures

25. … including roof types (from SWIR)
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26. Finding where people live
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… to connect them
Naivasha, KenyaNaivasha, Kenya population density

27. Monitoring Pipelines
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Answer “Results” Explorer
Analysis Results

28. AnswerFactory: “Show me where …?”
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31. Answering “show me where …?”
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32. ... enabling a growing ecosystem
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U.S. Government

33. Seeing A Better World
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34. IUU Fishing is a complex, global issue
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Caused by too many
fishers chasing
too few fish
Worsened by
economic
insecurity
Results in destruction
of habitat and
decreased stocks

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See a better world.™