WESTMINSTER, CO, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Maxar
Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a global technology innovator
powering the new space economy, today announced an agreement to
integrate its NaturalVue® 2.0 image mosaic and National Urban
Change Indicator (NUCI) commercial products into ArcGIS Living
Atlas of the World. The operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL and Radiant
Solutions were unified under the Maxar brand in February; MDA
continues to operate as an independent business unit within the
Maxar organization.
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the world's foremost
collection of maps developed by Esri partners and the Esri
user community and is available in ArcGIS Online, Esri's flagship
cloud-based geospatial platform. These enhancements will accelerate
the speed at which analysts distill actionable intelligence from
multiple sources of geospatial data to solve a variety of problems
and missions globally.
NaturalVue® 2.0 is Maxar's next-generation global image
mosaic, encompassing over 60,000 Landsat 8 images. As the highest
quality global, commercially available, and virtually cloud-free
15-meter mosaic with current imagery, NaturalVue® 2.0 provides a
seamless basemap that reflects the Earth's true colors. NaturalVue®
2.0 updates and improves upon previous versions with enhanced
positional accuracy, color fidelity and spatial resolution. Maxar's
image mosaic portfolio also includes Vivid and Metro mosaics, which
are the highest resolution global mosaics available commercially.
NaturalVue® 2.0, Vivid and Metro enable a broad range of geospatial
and web-based mapping applications, including military and defense
logistics, GIS backdrops, flight simulation, cartographic mapping,
3D visualization and GPS tracking.
NUCI is Maxar's innovative commercial urban change
detection product, which highlights areas of new construction
activity by isolating changes that persist over time, derived from
over 13,000 Landsat images. NUCI enables analysts to rapidly
identify areas of urban expansion across the landscape of the
continental United States by
filtering out noise from seasonal, agricultural and other natural
cycles that hamper traditional image-to-image change detection
methods. The dataset includes an archive covering nearly 30-years
of change.
"The addition of NaturalVue 2.0 and NUCI Esri's ArcGIS Online
platform gives thousands of GIS professionals the ability to
effectively address complex geospatial problems at a global scale,"
said Tony Frazier, Maxar's Executive
Vice President of Global Field Operations. "Maxar has hundreds of
geospatial analysts certified on ArcGIS. The integration of
NaturalVue 2.0 and NUCI expands our strong partnership with Esri
and furthers our overarching goal to equip our customers with the
ability to easily source, enrich and analyze massive amounts of
geospatial data to create a decision advantage."
"Over 350,000 organizations have access to maps in ArcGIS Living
Atlas of the World," said Jack
Dangermond, Esri founder and president. "We are delighted to
continue our close collaborative working relationship with Maxar by
adding its National Urban Change Indicator product and NaturalVue
2.0 image mosaic to Esri's platform."
NaturalVue® 2.0 and NUCI will soon be available to all Esri
users with access to ArcGIS Online through ArcGIS Living Atlas of
the World.
About Maxar Technologies
As a global leader of
advanced space technology solutions, Maxar is at the nexus of the
new space economy, developing and sustaining the infrastructure and
delivering the information, services, systems that unlock the
promise of space for commercial and government markets. The
operations of DigitalGlobe, SSL and Radiant Solutions were unified
under the Maxar brand in February; MDA continues to operate as an
independent business unit within the Maxar organization. As a
trusted partner with 5,900 employees in over 30 global locations,
Maxar provides vertically integrated capabilities and expertise
including satellites, Earth imagery, robotics, geospatial data and
analytics to help customers anticipate and address their most
complex mission-critical challenges with confidence. Every day,
billions of people rely on Maxar to communicate, share information
and data, and deliver insights that Build a Better World. Maxar
trades on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as
MAXR. For more information, visit www.maxar.com.
About Esri
Esri, the global market leader in
geographic information system (GIS) software, location
intelligence, and mapping, offers the most powerful geospatial
cloud available. Since 1969, Esri has helped customers unlock the
full potential of data to improve operational and business results.
Today, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations
including the world's largest cities, most national governments, 75
percent of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and
universities. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial
information technology, Esri engineers the most advanced solutions
for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and
advanced analytics. Visit us at esri.com.
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Maxar Media Relations
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