Maxar Selected to Deliver Change Detection and Land Cover Classification Services to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
April 28 2020 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Maxar leverages the innovative Janus
Geography and GSA Schedule to advance NGA’s core mission
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a trusted partner and
innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today
announced that it signed $20 million in contracts with the U.S.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to deliver land cover
classification and change detection services through a combination
of the Janus Geography program and the General Services
Administration’s IT Schedule 70.
Maxar will produce updates and enhancements using its
sophisticated change detection model and deliver land cover and
classification solutions in support of NGA’s needs. Automated
change detection visually exposes areas of important change,
enabling rapid and effective intelligence gathering across
thousands of images from multiple sources. Land cover
classification provides a global view of the current landscape by
applying machine learning to perform automated spectral, spatial
and temporal classification, enabling a better understanding of how
specific regions of Earth are being used on a micro scale.
Janus Geography provides near real-time access to commercially
created geospatial data, enriched content and community-sourced
information in a cost-effective manner to improve decision-making
timelines. As a prime contractor, Maxar leads a team of industry
and university partners with proven production capacity and
innovation to deliver content management of topographic and human
geography data from a variety of sources. The General Services
Administration’s IT Schedule 70 enables government customers to
shorten procurement cycles, ensure compliance and get the best
value for over 7.5 million innovative IT solutions from over 4,600
pre-vetted vendors.
“Maxar is constantly evolving our analytic capabilities and
GEOINT solutions to empower customers to more quickly ingest
intelligence for a breadth of defense and intelligence missions,”
said Tony Frazier, Maxar’s Executive Vice President of Global Field
Operations. “We are proud to be a prime contractor on NGA’s Janus
Geography program, demonstrating how industry can deliver
innovative solutions that satisfy NGA’s unique needs. As an
industry leader in the geospatial community, Maxar has provided
world-class commercial GEOINT solutions to NGA since 1999.”
The company is building a community of creative problem-solvers
who want to apply breakthrough technologies, collaborate across
disciplines and partner with visionaries for the good of humanity.
Explore open positions at maxar.com/careers.
About Maxar
Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence
and Space Infrastructure. We deliver disruptive value to government
and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and
navigate our changing planet; deliver global broadband
communications; and explore and advance the use of space. Our
unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and
a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and
deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost
effectiveness. Maxar’s 4,000 team members in 30 global locations
are inspired to harness the potential of space to help our
customers create a better world. Maxar trades on the New York Stock
Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more information,
visit www.maxar.com.
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