BlackSky Global is a geospatial company that focuses on remote sensing technology, offering “satellite imaging as a service” to its users. BlackSky Global was founded in 2013 by Jason Andrews with the goal of providing an evolving infrastructure to understand our planet in near real-time, and make geospatial data open and available to more people and organizations.
BlackSky Global’s mission is to “deploy and operate the infrastructure to enable constant global awareness while democratizing access to satellite imaging data. The company envisions an open, intelligent future where enhanced global observation leads to positive change and decision making and a better understanding of the world in which we live.” The company provides high-resolution satellite imagery to companies, organizations and governments who do not have an imaging constellation of their own, so that they can access information needed to monitor the global economy, which totals around $78 trillion annually.
BlackSky Global’s spacecraft is predominantly located in the mid-latitudes to provide frequent revisit over 90% of the Earth’s population. Black Sky is deploying six one meter imaging spacecraft in 2016 and will orbit a sixty satellite constellation by 2019. Because BlackSky Global’s spacecraft will fly over most major cities and economic zones between 40 and 70 times a day, organization can monitor basic infrastructure, economic activity, borders and key natural resources for abnormal or illegal activity.
The company’s imaging constellation enables a new level of global awareness by providing dynamic change detection across multiple industry sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, civil government, non-governmental organization, defense, finance, engineering, energy, and others. These sectors, and even individual citizens, can use BlackSky’s imagery to monitor the environment, trends, and the global economy. The use of this remote sensing geospatial technology will help users better understand the world, which will give rise to better decisions making that promotes beneficial changes and positive growth across the globe!
For more information, visit their website at http://www.blacksky.com/
Written by Kathleen Emerson (2/16/2016)