Photo: PSMA Australia

[Via Satellite 08-11-2016] DigitalGlobe has received a follow-on contract to deploy its Geospatial Big Data Platform (GBDX) to map the man-made environment and provide easy access to the physical attributes of more than 15 million structures across the continent of Australia for a new product called Geoscape, offered by PSMA Australia.

DigitalGlobe delivered the first phase of the project in April. For the continent-scale initiative, PSMA Australia will use GBDX to create a massive amount of geospatial content and location information derived from more than 7.6 million square kilometers of high-resolution satellite imagery, proprietary DigitalGlobe and ecosystem partner technologies, and crowdsourced data. Geoscape will host valuable location and structural information on buildings across Australia, including features such as building footprints and heights, rooftop materials, solar panels, and swimming pools. These insights can be applied broadly for applications such as insurance risk modeling, urban planning and services delivery, emergency planning and management, business intelligence, research, and policy development.