MINNEAPOLIS – May 4, 2016 – East View Geospatial has teamed with DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), to provide access to DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform (GBDX), expanding research and design capabilities with high resolution imagery archives. The GBDX ecosystem complements East View Geospatial efforts to deliver innovative analytic solutions to customers while deepening its already rich product lines.
The GBDX platform revolutionizes geospatial product development by making available toolkits and more than 15 years of high resolution satellite imagery archives for research. Continually growing, the DigitalGlobe commercial image library represents an unparalleled resource for product evaluation. East View Geospatial is using the GBDX platform to test concepts and algorithms that enhance geospatial content around the world.
The announcement strengthens the partnership between DigitalGlobe and East View Geospatial, laying the groundwork for long-lasting collaboration between the two organizations. East View Geospatial will be working with DigitalGlobe to develop capabilities that mutually benefit both companies, as well as other organizations using the platform. Notably, East View Geospatial becomes the first of DigitalGlobe’s global network of authorized resellers to invest in the GBDX platform with a focus on bringing innovative new imagery products to market.
“GBDX integration represents the next step in our partnership with DigitalGlobe,” said East View Geospatial CEO Kent Lee. “We are excited to see what new analytic solutions we can start delivering to our customers.”
East View Geospatial expects the first wave of new capabilities derived from GBDX to be available this summer. More information about GBDX solutions will be released as it is made available. For more information in the interim, please emailgeospatial@eastview.com, or contact your East View Geospatial Representative.
About East View
East View was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. East View is comprised of East View Information Services (www.eastview.com), East View Geospatial (www.geospatial.com) and East View Map Link (www.maplink.com). East View maintains thousands of supplier/publisher relationships throughout the world for maps and geospatial data and Russian, Arabic and Chinese-produced social and hard science content. East View manages a data center, library and warehouse in Minneapolis where it hosts and stores dozens of foreign language databases, hundreds of thousands of maps and atlases and millions of geospatial, Russian, Chinese and Arabic metadata records.
About DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe is a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions that help decision makers better understand our changing planet in order to save lives, resources and time. Sourced from the world’s leading constellation, our imagery solutions deliver unmatched coverage and capacity to meet our customers’ most demanding mission requirements. Each day customers in defense and intelligence, public safety, civil agencies, map making and analysis, environmental monitoring, oil and gas exploration, infrastructure management, navigation technology, and providers of location-based services depend on DigitalGlobe data, information, technology and expertise to gain actionable insight.