EarthPipeline
Introducing the World's First Fully Managed
Ground Segment Pipeline as a Service
A New Ground solution for New Space designed to transform your downlinked
satellite data into high scientific quality “Analytics Ready Data” (ARD) at scale.

How Good is Your Mission?
Mission-level designs combine satellite design with ground segment design to bring the highest value to the end customer.
The EarthPipeline is designed to generate Analytics Ready Data products from all types of satellites including satellites with lower cost GPS, star trackers, and optical systems.
Ready for Analytics?
Remote sensing specialists and data scientists routinely report that they spend as much as 80% of their time as “data hygienists” dealing with quality issues and normalizing different data sets.

The EarthPipeline removes the pre-processing, normalization and image transformation tasks from your workflow at scale, delivering Analytics Ready Data (ARD) products ready to be used in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications seamlessly, securely, and rapidly.

See the Signals?
Radiometric accuracy is crucial for deriving quantifiable change and actionable insights without false positives.

The EarthPipeline delivers scientific quality radiometrically accurate products designed for geoanalytics.

Know Your Location?
Some data providers have products that are geometrically misaligned, which is challenging for end users.

Poor geolocation - cannot track river flow
and identify risk of floods
The EarthPipeline guarantees geometrically aligned image products for interoperability and geoanalytics.

Accurate geolocation – able to provide
automated alerts for flooding
Have Business Agility?
Each customer has a different need from rapid delivery to massive product volumes. A Ground Segment must be capable of cost-effective adaptation to the scale and latency needs of your business.

The EarthPipeline elastically scales to customer demand with tunable latency, providing a low-cost ability to execute your business model.

Services
The EarthPipeline transforms all types of downlinked satellite data into Analytics
Ready Data designed for machine learning, AI, and automated insights.
How we're different:
Typical Ground Segment
(in Today's Earth Observation Value Chain)

EarthPipeline
Enabled Value Chain

EarthPipeline
Traditional
Ground Segment
Upfront Costs
$
$$$$$
Operational Costs
$$
$$$$$
Scalability
Near-infinite
Low
Image Quality
Analytics Ready Data
Variable Quality Data
Commissioning Duration
Rapid
Long
Security
High
High
Distribution
Efficient
Slow
EarthPipeline | Traditional Ground Segment | |
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Upfront Costs | EarthPipeline’s modular design supports pushbroom, frame and SAR sensors with low up-front costs. | Purchasing Radiometric and Geometric Processing, Calibration, QA, Archive, and Commissioning Systems is costly. |
Operational Costs | Fully managed service means low operational costs to the satellite operator. | Hardware, Ground Segment maintenance, facilities and operations teams all lead to high operational costs. |
Scalability | Service scales based on business needs. | On-premises servers are not configurable, scalable and elastic. Adding new resources takes time and can result in lost opportunities. |
Image Quality | Rigorous physics-based modelling, proprietary computer vision, and machine learning guarantee the generation of high-quality data for any class of satellite. | Varies depending on Satellite and Ground Segment and requires significant manual operations to guarantee quality. |
Commissioning Duration | Automated algorithms and our experienced commissioning team get you to business operations faster. | Commissioning is very challenging, time consuming, and filled with manual. |
Security | Proven cloud-based security. Automation means staff will not interact with imagery. | Requires secure facility. |
Distribution | Effective cloud-based delivery for any workload. | Difficult at large scale due to on-premises servers and bandwidth limitations. |
We Offer

Commissioning as a Service
Get Operational 4x Faster than Traditional Approaches
Highly accurate and automated services for commissioning, including optical distortion measurement, PSF characterization, star-tracker/gyro alignment, and focal plane determination.

Calibration as a Service
Let Your Mission Be Known for Quality
Automatic high-quality absolute and flatfielding calibration provides scientific radiometry suitable for even the most subtle change detection applications.

Raw Processing as a Service
Guaranteed Precision Geo-location
High-quality image processing automatically removes kilometres of error down to sub-pixel accuracy and rapidly transforms raw downlinked data into high-value Analytics Ready Data products.
EarthPipeline products include Sensor-Corrected Basic products, Ortho-rectified, Top of Atmosphere (TOA) and Bottom of Atmosphere (BOA) products.

Image QA as a Service
Have Confidence in Your Quality
Automated QA of each product provides an auditable guarantee that you meet your product specification objectives and customer SLAs.

Image Refinement as a Service
Improve Your Existing Products
Customized product pipelines that generate Analytics Ready Data including radiometric calibration, geometric correction, and atmospheric correction from previously processed data products.

Image Mosaics Services
Large Area Mosaics of Your Products
Automated mosaics can be rapidly processed using EarthPipeline technology to meet your analytics needs.