SAN FRANCISCO – Blacksky and Iceye have joined forces with AI-visualization specialists Aechelon Technology and Niantic Spatial to create a digital twin of Earth.

The joint campaign to create a planetary-scale geospatial model that can be frequently refreshed with satellite observations is called Project Orbion.

BlackSky high-resolution visual imagery and Iceye synthetic aperture radar data will feed into Skybeam, Aechelon’s three-dimensional global database.

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