Technology Track by Digital Globe

How DigitalGlobe is Imagery Enabling the Global Enterprise

DigitalGlobe Inc., is the world leader for geospatial content, products and related services. It is the only geospatial content company to provide an end-to-end solution for global acquisition, access and distribution of both aerial and satellite imagery. DigitalGlobe is committed to maintaining the world’s highest resolution constellation of satellites; the most complete, accurate content library, and easy to use distribution systems to provide quick access to imagery and related content.

DigitalGlobe has become the preferred content partner for imagery enabled applications for commercial, civil government and web portals because of its commitment to developing easy to use online and offline content discovery and integration through solutions which include APIs, plug-ins and web-services.

In addition, DigitalGlobe’s use of web-services as a content distribution solution has opened up many types of new users and applications within global enterprises. Mapping, viewing, navigating and studying earth imagery is now accessible to non-technical GIS users, decision support executives and managers as well as the traditional geospatial specialist.

In this workshop, DigitalGlobe will demonstrate why an end-to-end solution approach to content acquisition and distribution is important in this era of the geospatial web, why it is important for imagery to be more widely accessible to more users, and how its commitment to an open systems philosophy allows imagery to be easily integrated into desktop mapping applications, web services and other GIS software solutions.

DigitalGlobe will present case studies for imagery data integration, and how new groups of users are increasing utilizing imagery to present greater clarity in their decision making, and reaping the benefits of increased visibility into real world scenarios when viewed through global imagery.

Speaker:

Marc Tremblay, Ph.D., VP and General Manager, Commercial Business Unit, DigitalGlobe Inc.

Dr. Tremblay oversees DigitalGlobe's efforts in the Commercial and Civil Government markets and brings over 15 years of experience as an executive with a proven track record within GIS related industries. Most recently he was Vice President, Business Development & Product Management for Z Corporation, Prior to Z Corporation Dr. Tremblay was the President and CEO of Syncline, Inc., a provider of ASP solutions and standards-based GIS Web Services that help businesses and government function more efficiently and intelligently by providing easy access to their geospatial data holdings. Dr. Tremblay holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.