DigitalGlobe and Space Imaging Middle East (SIME) recently worked with METAphrenie, a design studio that creates award-winning visual solutions for the advertising, marketing and broadcast industry, to produce the Opening Titles for TEDxDubai 2011.
Using WorldView-2 and QuickBird imagery over Dubai, the show’s opening sequence illustrates the way in which the city has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last decade to become a world leader in enterprise and modernization.
SIME was also the supporting sponsor of the event, which took place at the Dubai World Trade Centre on 22 October 2011.
Space Imaging Middle East is a founding member of the WorldView Global Alliance, a partnership between SIME, European Space Imaging and DigitalGlobe providing best-in-class imagery solutions for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
DigitalGlobe’s Stephen Wood, Vice President, Analysis Center, wraps up this blog series with his overall impressions of the show.
Content Is King After a great GEOWalk event last night (have you ever been to a party and seen so many cowboy hats and bandanas?) and as we prepare to conclude this year’s successful 2011 GEOINT conference in San Antonio, I will remember several themes from my time here. Walking along the tradeshow floor it seemed as though most exhibitors–and many of the symposium presenters–were talking about cloud services, showing iPad applications, and extolling the virtues of analysis. As the Director of NGA told the crowd on Monday however, the framework for integrating geospatial intelligence starts with having content. In order to fuel those exciting new mobile applications or to have material to analyze, one first requires discoverable, accessible, and relevant content.
QuickBird’s 10 Year Anniversary
This week DigitalGlobe has been demonstrating precisely that: on Tuesday, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the QuickBird satellite (our first operational satellite) launch and are proud to see her continuing to collect exceptional sub-meter imagery today. In our tradeshow booth, we have been demonstrating how our constellation of imaging satellites has expanded steadily and are collecting nearly 2.8 million square kilometers of high-resolution imagery daily. Talk about content!
DigitalGlobe Launches Two New Services This week, we officially introduced two new services to the public: FirstWatch and the Diplomatic Facility Support Package. Both services correlate well to Director Long’s vision of having apps and services easily accessing that precious content. I also heard the FEMA Administrator speak eloquently yesterday about how important imagery information and analysis is (not just imagery by itself) as governments and the public respond to disasters and crises. As our Analysis Center knows well, from our experience responding to multiple crises throughout 2011, speed matters in those critical hours and days immediately after a disaster strikes.
GEOINT 2011 has been valuable, as always, to enable me to reconnect with former friends and colleagues, listen firsthand to our customers’ needs and requirements, and meet plenty of new partners along the way. Having been to every GEOINT symposium since the beginning, I know I’ll start looking forward to the 2012 conference next week!
DigitalGlobe's Imagery Collection Counter at the 2011 GEOINT Symposium
Jack Hild, Vice President of US Defense Strategy at DigitalGlobe, gives his impression of the show’s second day.
A couple of things have struck me so far from the first and second days of the conference. Some of the key themes that Director Long (NGA) and General Clapper (DNI) focused on were the value of open source and integrating information, including social media. Director Long also highlighted content within mobile applications. It’s important to point out that content within mobile applications is only valuable if you have the right information and data to support it.
Interestingly, Director Long frequently referenced the Homeland Security Infrastructure Protection (HSIP) program as an exemplar for content management. Likewise, DigitalGlobe’s Diplomatic Facility Support Package was modeled in part after NGA’s HSIP – same web delivery service from our partner, CACI, same collaboration tools, same data security procedures, same symbols, and very similar standards.
When Director Long came by our booth for a tour we were able to connect the dots between what she presented and our Diplomatic Facility Support Package solution. She was engaged and asked great questions about the offering. If you’re curious about this product and want to see what Director Long saw, you can come by our booth #337 today for a demo.
Overall I noticed that the exhibit hall is very tall this year. All of the exhibits are reaching to the ceiling. This year is clearly the largest and flashiest display in the history of the conference.
Last night we hosted our GEOWalk party with MDA at the Buckhorn Saloon. We had a large turnout and many smiling faces. It was a nice way to continue serious and meaningful discussions with the GEOINT community in a fun-filled atmosphere. We hope everyone that attended had a great time.
