The GBDX platform provides cloud-based access to DigitalGlobe’s vast current and historical library of geospatial data along with the tools and algorithms necessary to extract useful information from that data — at scale! This creates the ideal ecosystem for you to create new customer solutions without the cost of owning and operating costly data and IT infrastructure. Using the platform you can

• Search, access, and process imagery in a manner that allows for rapid geospatial information product creation at any scale

• Build new applications, or extend existing ones by leveraging the GBDX capabilities and embedding them in customer-facing interfaces

Infrastructure designed to scale to your needs

GBDX uses the cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Service (AWS) to enable a set of APIs that can perform scaleable geo-compute against imagery data. The GBDX environment enables simple access to both storage and computation in a manner that is easily managed. GBDX is bringing the compute to the data rather than the data to the compute. Data residing within GBDX is stored in S3 ‘buckets’ that are accessed through GBDX RESTful (REST) web service APIs. The GBDX Workflow API enables you to access state of the art computer vision and remote sensing algorithms from DigitalGlobe and ENVI, dynamically increasing computation power.  If you don’t like the built in tools, thats fine, just import your own algorithms into the system to allow them to run at scale.

Complete access to 15 years of earth imagery

DigitalGlobe owns and operates the most agile and sophisticated constellation of commercial earth imaging satellites in the world which collect 3,000,000 km2 of Earth imagery every day. Of all high-resolution commercial imagery collected since 2010, DigitalGlobe has collected approximately 80% of it.

The environment and algorithms you need to extract actionable information

GBDX is a robust environment for building, accessing and running advanced algorithms designed for information extraction from imagery datasets at scale. Accessible through our APIs, current algorithm examples include car counting, orthorectifying, land use, land cover, and atmospheric compensation. These algorithms are being developed by both DigitalGlobe and 3rd party developers.

REST APIs

REST APIs access and control the various elements of the GBDX environment, including data discovery, staging of working sets, workflow orchestration, etc. Actions are performed by exchanging representations in JSON format. The platform’s API uses the standard HTTP request methods: GET, POST and DELETE.

Catalog API

The catalog API provides for the search and discovery of data via a set of 39 different attributes associated with each image. These attributes include standard image characteristics such as geographic location, cloud cover percentage, sensor type, sun angle and many others. Through the Catalog API, you can quickly find the data set you need for further processing.

Workflow API

The Workflow API contains tools for managing imagery data and executing tasks against sets of data. Using the workflow you first find data through the use of the catalog API, the assign the selected dataset to a working set, and then launch individual tasks/algorithms or a chained set of tasks/algorithms.

Docker

GBDX relies on Docker for the deployment of algorithms and applications as tasks within the system. Developers who desire the ability to run algorithms at scale through the GBDX environment must containerize their capabilities into a standard, uniform interface through Docker. Docker fits neatly into the ecosystem of the catalog APIs, workflow APIs, Docker hub and the GBDX developer community.

Support, when you need it

Behind the GBDX infrastructure, data and tools are a team of experts to support the technology from DigitalGlobe’s operations and solutions teams, giving you access to our decades of experience and knowledge building geospatial imagery applications.

Ecosystem

The GBDX platform enables developers and partners the ability to create workflows and algorithms that can be shared or sold. Currently the system supports a number of services from 3rd party partners.

GBDX provides unprecedented power at reasonable cost

• Access to algorithms, image data and compute infrastructure coupled with new business models allow for broad scale geo-analysis

• Developer friendly pricing enables the creation of new products and services

• Short term image data rental approach enables project execution at a low cost

• Ecosystem enables access to a broad selection of industry tools to advance product and project goals and also enables opportunities for new passive revenue streams

See it in action

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Get it now!

We offer three different ways to work with the GBDX platform

GBDX Evaluation Tier

• Includes access to imagery data within two geographical areas
• Use of our Web Application or GBDX APIs to order and process data from these two areas

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GBDX Developer Access

• Includes a R&D license for creation of new products and algorithms
• Derived products cannot be sold to end customers
• Developer-friendly pricing

>> Register for developer access

Production Access

• Large scale extractions incorporated into developed product or for internal use
• Payment is done on a revenue share or cost/TB month

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