Galileo Group Announces Satellite-based Automated Data Analysis Delivery Services
MELBOURNE, Fla., July 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Galileo Group announced today it will be providing client delivery services for real-time and near real-time image analyses of data mapping and informatics products from micro- and nano-satellite technology systems that will work in tandem with more mature space-borne imaging sensors.
Executives with the firm said their technology's functions in this area build upon an emergent use of satellite data analysis and constitutes a "complete package" of near real-time, high-resolution, multi-modality images, as collected from across the entire globe. Automated templates will be tailored for specific target identification and quantification packages for short-turnaround economical delivery to commercial customers via cloud delivery.
Galileo officials signaled initial applications are planned for agri-science uses, in which case, scenarios like country-level and/or local-to-regional area mapping needs are inherently time sensitive. These regions require frequent remapping of client targets for accurate science- or economic-based prediction objectives, according to the company's chief, Michael Barnes.
"With our unique experience in global-airborne remote sensing operations, we have designed a data ingestion engine to work across micro-, nano- and conventional-satellite modalities," Barnes, CEO of Galileo Group, said. "Scale, speed and economy of use are the name of the game for output."
Additional automation aptitudes include environmental, explorational and emergency-response scenarios.
Galileo's goal is to provide an analytics service, delivering direct, actionable analytics products to, customers, but the core technology may be made available for licensing use.
Based on 20 years of experience in global-air operations – encompassing hyperspectral, LIDAR, thermal and high-resolution imaging data services, as well as data fusion, machine learning techniques and advanced analytics – Galileo's focus will be on making use of calibrated data to deliver processed maps or analysis-processed results for direct use in client decision making.
That data collection engine, Barnes explained, will produce various, automated output layers based on myriad algorithmic models developed by Galileo's scientists and researchers. Some of those approaches will make use of emerging artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Those models can be adapted and tailored per specific customer requirements, providing them with a unique competitive advantage.
"We are applying our real-world understanding of target exploitation to providing even faster, more on-demand delivery to new satellite imaging data customers," Barnes noted. "Automation capabilities will be continuously updated based on market needs."
The unique part of Galileo's approach is the fact the algorithmic processing and informatics both are embedded in the delivery process, so the customer is receiving not just images or simple maps, but useful thematic, and informatics data layers, specifically addressing their needs, according to company officials intimately involved with the process.
The point is to make advanced, remote-sensing data available to users who may not have had the experience or current capabilities of handling that level of analysis themselves, a company spokesman explained.
"As a result, Galileo's clientele can use that information to sharpen their decision-making abilities for cost-effective goals," Dr. Zhihong Pan, Galileo's director of research, said. "The range of applications is endless, including crop identification and classification, plant-performance monitoring and yield predictions. Additionally, our technology can perform land-cover mapping and track deforestation or illegal logging, among many other things, with unprecedented temporal resolution and global coverage."
Galileo has the personnel, airborne-sensor and field equipment inventory to carry out such projects for their customers for supplemental aircraft-based scenarios where additional information may be needed.
"Where necessary, we can augment satellite data using our aircraft sensor systems or ground truthing resources to provide even more detail for the customer," Barnes concluded. "We see it as a service-provider continuum of sensor-based data and informatics possibilities."
About Galileo Group
Galileo Group, Inc. is an advanced-technology company specializing in applied-hyperspectral imaging. The technology was initially developed for US government applications, such as detecting various ground combat targets through aerial reconnaissance. Galileo is focused on expanding its products and services using its proven hyperspectral-imaging technology. The company has transitioned its imaging technology from government to commercial applications over the course of 19 years of continuous business operations.
This turnkey-detection capability includes the digital extraction and analysis of spectral signatures, or "natural" bar codes, for applications in environmental, mineral, oil and/or gas exploration, and emerging biotechnology markets. Galileo also performs airborne-LIDAR and multispectral data-fusion services on a global-deployment basis.
In addition to its commercial work, the company regularly donates select hyperspectral data sets to scientific research and educational institutions committed to environmental and climate-change studies.
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