This comes via the DigitalGlobe blog...
We are pleased to officially announce that we have acquired crowdsourced intelligence pioneer Tomnod (www.tomnod.com.) While the transaction is not material to our financials, it does support our vision of being the indispensable source of information about our changing planet.
Tomnod has been at the forefront of innovation in the growing field of crowdsourcing of earth observation imagery analysis, combining their unique and novel algorithms with deep GIS and imagery knowledge.
We will continue offering Tomnod’s rapid information capture and validation services directly to customers. In addition, information gained by the service will increasingly act as a key data source for our in-house analytics teams, enabling them to provide more accurate insight and analysis to our customers faster.
Dr. Walter Scott, our Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Officer and Founder, said it best, describing the acquisition as “a valuable one for DigitalGlobe that takes us a significant step forward in achieving our long-term vision while immediately increasing our ability to help users across our industry save time, resources and lives.”
The Tomnod team now has a new home at our headquarters in Longmont, Colorado. We believe that this is only the beginning of the potential for crowdsourced insight with exciting times ahead.
Stay tuned to this blog for future updates, and note that we will be conducting a live Twitter interview with former Tomnod CEO and co-founder Shay Har-Noy starting at 4:00 p.m. ET today. Click below for more information on the interview!