Latest geospatial satellite startup Nuview emerged from stealth mode on Thursday, with plans to construct the primary industrial LiDAR satellite constellation.
LiDAR — which stands for Light Detection and Ranging — collects 3D data of Earth. Nuview says the difficulty is that only about 5 percent of the Earth’s landmass has been mapped with LiDAR, which is collected from aircraft, and current satellite imagery is 2D.
A Nuview representative told ‘s sister publication the corporate goals to have a 20-satellite constellation, with tentative launch of the primary satellites in 24 to 36 months. The corporate pla犀利士
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Nuview’s goal it to map the complete Earth every year, and said up-to-date LiDAR could make a difference in agriculture, urban planning, and disaster relief, and to create high-resolution digital twins.
The corporate says it has $1.2 billion dollars in early adopter agreements and plans to announce fundraising in the approaching weeks.
The corporate’ss CEO and co-founder is Clint Graumann, former CEO of TerraMetric, a business development firm geared toward the space tech and geospatial industries.
“Nuview is thrilled to be leading a brand new era in geospatial technology to supply the primary, most complete, high-resolution 3D point cloud of the Earth’s surface,” Graumann commented. “Our LiDAR satellite constellation will offer a wealth of knowledge that has never before been available at scale, driving innovation and progress throughout quite a few industries and revolutionizing the best way we understand and interact with our planet.”