PARIS – To hurry up access to Earth statement data for thousands and thousands of shoppers, Esri is closely integrating its ArcGIS geographic mapping platform with Microsoft Azure Space.
“We’re putting your complete technology stack in Azure Space data centers,” Richard Cooke, Esri, imagery and distant sensing director, told on the World Satellite Business Week conference here. “We’re co-locating our technology by the antennas to scale back the latency, automate numerous the post-processing and get to the meaningful data as quickly as possible.”
Microsoft made a series of announcements Sept. 11, including partnerships with Esri and Synthetaic.
Synthetaic on Azure Space
Synthetaic, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to investigate data from space and airborne sensors, announced a strategic partnership Aug. 29 with Microsoft. As a part of the five-year deal, Synthetaic can have access to extensive cloud compute resources.
Synthetaic is integrating its technology with Azure Space to harness the “speed and flexibility of AI to process geospatial, static and video imagery for a spread of use cases, including national security, disaster response, environmental and sustainability operations, Synthetaic said in a news release.
NASA, Planetary Computer and Muon
Microsoft also added the Planetary Computer, a platform that mixes multi-petabyte global datasets related to biodiversity and climate change with machine-learning tools, to Azure Space.
As well as, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Kongsberg Satellite Services demonstrated rapid acquisition, processing and distribution of Earth science data products by working with Azure Space.
The NASA centers linked KSAT and Azure Orbital ground stations with NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization Earth-observation and weather satellites: Terra, Aqua, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership and NOAA-20. The demonstration showed that processed data could reach customers inside 25 minutes, in line with the Microsoft news release.
One other Azure Orbital customer, Muon Space, launched its first weather satellite in June.
“Since we’re constructing constellations of distant sensing spacecraft with unique revisit, resolution and data latency capabilities, our ground station partner was a critical alternative,” Jim Martz, Muon vice chairman engineering, said in a press release. Muon chosen Azure Orbital Ground station based on its capabilities and product roadmap.