Maxar’s strategic investment layers its
best-in-class satellite imagery with Blackshark.ai’s semantic 3D
geospatial platform
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of
comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial
intelligence, today announced its strategic investment in
Blackshark.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered geospatial
analytics services. The partnership represents Maxar’s commitment
to innovation within its 3D Earth Intelligence product
portfolio.
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Blackshark.ai will leverage Maxar’s
global cloudless satellite imagery basemap, Vivid, to create a
highly performant and photo-realistic 3D map for enterprise and
government customers in industries such as gaming, metaverse,
simulation and mixed reality environments. (Graphic: Maxar
Technologies)
The Blackshark.ai platform processes petabytes of satellite
imagery in hours, and it detects and segments objects, roads,
vegetation, and other infrastructure on the surface of the planet
without human intervention. This semantic information is used to
create a comprehensive 3D digital model of the world.
The strategic investment in Blackshark allows Maxar to bring
additional 3D capabilities to broader markets for more customers
and opens up a new revenue stream from Blackshark. Blackshark.ai
will leverage Maxar’s global cloudless satellite imagery basemap,
Vivid, to create a highly performant and photo-realistic 3D map for
enterprise and government customers in industries such as gaming,
metaverse, simulation and mixed reality environments. For example,
this type of offering would enable flight simulator customers to
access immersive 3D digital experiences with low latency and global
scale. Intended for customers who may not need the global accuracy
of Maxar’s full Precision3D suite.
“We’re excited to partner with Blackshark.ai to extend our
geospatial analytics offering and bring a AAA video-game quality 3D
digital twin of our planet to market,” said Dan Nord, Maxar Senior
Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Earth
Intelligence. “By integrating our industry leading Vivid basemap
with Blackshark algorithms, we expand our customer set by
complementing our high accuracy Precision3D portfolio with this
lighter weight, visually stunning option.”
Michael Putz, Founder and CEO of blackshark.ai said, “The
combination of our offerings positions us to create a digital twin
of our planet as real as it gets. We cannot wait to see our
customers and partners using this to disrupt many industries.”
About Blackshark.ai
Blackshark.ai provides a 3D digital twin of Earth by extracting
information from satellite imagery and reconstructing detected
attributes in photorealistic 3D fully automatically. A scalable
artificial intelligence builds the core of the blackshark platform,
detecting features globally with incredible precision and speed. A
patented approach to 3D reconstruction can store petabytes of data
and render it in infinite detail in real-time, allowing for
powerful visualization and simulation applications for government,
geospatial intelligence, humanitarian relief, planetary management,
autonomous driving and flying, insurance, smart cities and more.
The blackshark.ai platform, backed by M12 – Microsoft’s Venture
Fund, Point72 Ventures and provider of global space solutions Maxar
Technologies (NYSE:MAXR), serves large clients globally with a team
of 100+ people based out of Silicon Valley/US and Graz/Austria,
Europe’s computer vision hub.
About Maxar
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) is a provider of
comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial
intelligence. 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 4,400 team
members in over 20 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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Investor Relations Contact: Jason Gursky Maxar VP,
Investor Relations and Corporate Treasurer 1-303-684-2207
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Media Contacts: Fernando Vivanco Maxar Media Relations
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