To accelerate access to Earth observation data for millions of customers, Esri is tightly integrating the ArcGIS geospatial mapping platform with Microsoft Azure Space.
“We host the entire technology stack in Azure Space data centers,” he said Space News Richard Cook, Esri’s director of imaging and remote sensing, at the World Satellite Business Week conference. “We position our technology alongside antennas to reduce latency, automate many post-processing processes, and obtain critical data as quickly as possible.”
On September 11, Microsoft announced its partnership with Esri and Synthetaic.
Synthetic in Azure Space
Synthetaic, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to analyze data from space and airborne sensors, announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft on August 29. As part of the five-year agreement, Synthetaic will gain access to extensive cloud computing resources.
Synthetaic is integrating its technology with Azure Space to leverage “the speed and versatility of AI to process geospatial, static, and video imagery for a variety of use cases, including homeland security, disaster response, environmental, and sustainability operations,” according to a press release. Release synthetic versions.
NASA, planetary computer and muon
Microsoft also added Azure Space Planetary Computer, a platform that combines multi-petabyte global datasets on biodiversity and climate change with machine learning tools.
Additionally, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Kongsberg Satellite Services have demonstrated rapid acquisition, processing, and distribution of Earth science data products powered by Azure Space.
NASA centers linked KSAT and Azure Orbital ground stations to NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth observation and weather satellites: Terra, Aqua, Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership, and NOAA-20. According to Microsoft’s press release, the demonstration showed that processed data could reach customers within 25 minutes.
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Another Azure Orbital customer, Muon Space, launched its first weather satellite in June.
“As we build a family of remote sensing spacecraft with unique revisit, resolution and data latency capabilities, our ground station partner was a critical choice,” said Jim Martz, Muon’s vice president of development. Muon selected the Azure Orbital Ground Station based on its capabilities and production schedule. Source