Geospatial Imagery Analytics Software in Environmental Monitoring

DigitalGlobe’s Standard Imagery Suit products provide remote sensing applications and image processing tools that require data of highest geometric accuracy or large area coverage. Digital Globe has also developed DigitalGlobe Maps API which helps in accessing satellite imagery through web and mobile applications. Its Human Landscape solution is a collection of comprehensive geodatabases detailing core human geography themes across countries and metro scale.

Esri offers ArcGIS platform that provides contextual tools for mapping and spatial reasoning to explore data and share location-based insights. ArcGIS platform includes ArcGIS for Desktop, ArcGIS for Mobile, ArcGIS for Server, and ArcGIS Online. Though ArcGIS provides various advantages by allowing to fuse data, predict status, and create spatially aware services to innovate, engage customers, and monetize data, it is a very expensive software and is not worth for small applications.

The survey segment provides a range of services to support the activities of the oil & gas industry and a broad range of commercial and civil industries, as well as governments and non-governmental organizations. The subsea services segment provides underwater support services to the oil & gas, marine, construction, and renewable energy sectors. The geoscience segment provides products & services associated with collecting, processing, interpreting, managing, and storing geophysical and geological data.

The company also provides Google Maps, a web mapping service offering satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning. This service is also available for Android and iOS mobile devices. Google Earth provides a virtual globe, map, and geographical information program that maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Geographic Information System (GIS) onto a 3D globe.

Harris Corporation offers ENVI which is a flexible imagery and data analytics solution that can be customized to meet specific project needs and can be deployed and accessed from the desktop, on the cloud, and on mobile devices.

Hexagon AB is one of the world's leading IT software solutions provider in geospatial and industrial landscapes worldwide. Hexagon AB provides ERDAS IMAGINE solution which is offered within the PRODUCER SUITE of the Power Portfolio to maximize productivity with state of the art photogrammetric satellite and aerial image processing algorithm.

In imaging systems, the company delivers the highest quality images captured through processing. Moreover, the company also offers a suite of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) solutions deployed from an advanced sensor delivery platform. It includes proprietary products, including electro-optical, hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar sensors, and other products that are manufactured and integrated with hardware and software to meet the unique and evolving intelligence mission requirements.

PlanetScope and RapidEye are the two imagery datasets provided by Planet Labs. These imagery datasets are created and delivered through a cloud-based platform. Planet Platform is the most advanced, cloudbased imagery platform which delivers daily, high-resolution imagery from planet’s satellites by making it accessible on the web, and furnishes the user with APIs and program based devices to rapidly discover and separate the data which is required.

These services range from land use planning, utility planning, urban and rural infrastructure planning using high-resolution imagery to forest mapping, watershed management, natural resource mapping, and mineral mapping using low-resolution imagery. The company is also focusing on improving its very high resolution airborne and satellite imagery and wide spectrum of imagery applications for geospatial data development and analysis.

It also offers customers highly accurate digital model or 3D representation of a terrain's surface to serve multiple objectives, such as supporting engineering designs; construction activities; and mining, geological, and environmental surveys. It serves various verticals such as commercial, education, hospitality, healthcare, sustainability, leisure, and manufacturing & industrial.

Trimble also provides SATMaster, a software solution under its remote sensing suite. SATMaster enables precise geo-referencing through full automatic triangulation of multiple overlapping satellite image-to-ground control points, increasing data accuracy and enabling data fusion-toreference data sets.

UrthePlatform is a cloud computing platform which enables users to access newly-collected, cost-effective data set of imagery collected by Deimos-1 satellite. UrtheCast also provides OptiSAR Constellation, the world’s first fully-integrated constellation of optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. The OptiSAR Constellation will consist of 16 satellites in two orbit planes. The constellation will capture imaging of the same location with SAR and optical satellites.