In this modern, technologically driven era Satellite becomes the convincing source of data collection. Satellite is capturing around trillions of pixels every day. Some highly demanded fields like research, discovery, and analytics are highly being benefited by this data. Various functions, starting from climate monitoring to illegal mining detection, deforestation, agriculture to construction, retail, or finance are being operated on this data only. In past the obstacle to using these type of data are high cost and complexity associated with it, however thanks to a new crop of companies united by their missions to democratize access to satellite data and machine learning, geospatial insights are now available to all. SkyWatch and Picterra announced that they are joining hands for this unique program.
Picterra is a leading ML/AI Software-as-a-Service platform which enables the businesses to extract intelligence & analytics from satellite autonomously along with aerial, and drone imagery. Due to its ready-to-use IT infrastructure, in a few clicks, you can process terabytes of imagery with GPU-enabled infrastructure and Picterra’s auto-scaling. SkyWatch is building the infrastructure for the automated distribution of Earth observation (EO) data. Developers will be able to add EO data cost-effectively into their applications and workflows with the help of SkyWatch EarthCache™.
With this project, Picterra is in the leading position on the market for insights extraction with self-serve ML/AI tools and EO imagery, enabling companies to access unprecedented geospatial intelligence & analytics capabilities cost-effectively. It will disrupt the traditional method of extracting information from imagery. The speed of extraction will be 95% faster than the traditional manner and also 90% more cost-effective.
The customers of Picterra can now monitor their areas of interest automatically due to a combination of Picterra’s automated detection algorithms and EarthCache’s automated tasking request feature. Now anyone can access previously unseen monitoring capabilities. This integration is certainly beneficial for customers of Picterra with access to satellite EO imagery in a cost-effective manner. It will help in generating new insights instantly and add a tool for competitive advantage.
About SkyWatch
Skywatch’s mission is to make Earth-observation data accessible to the world. Every day, hundreds of trillions of pixels of our planet are captured from space. EarthCache™ provides the easiest way to satellite data for applications in agriculture, energy, oil & gas, natural resources management, utilities, etc.
About Picterra Picterra is the first ML/AI Software-as-a-Service geospatial platform with businesses to extract intelligence & analyst autonomously from aerial imagery and satellite. Now, only a few human-made annotations will be needed to identify and monitor any object or patterns at scale, anywhere on Earth.
