Maxar Technologies has just unveiled an exciting new upgrade to their popular global basemap.
The new and improved Vivid Standard boasts a remarkable 30-centimeter per pixel resolution, a significant improvement from the previous 50-centimeter resolution, making it the most detailed global basemap yet.
Thanks to this enhanced resolution, the Vivid Standard has the capability to identify even the smallest of structures. Moreover, the basemap provides a highly accurate view of new roads, buildings, and vegetation, making it an essential tool for those who rely on precise mapping information.
“We are able to do a lot more things with 30-centimeter imagery, which we have not been able to do previously,” explained Sid Dixit, Maxar’s vice president of engineering and product. “We can identify structures like bus stops and traffic lights, and we get a very accurate view of new roads, vegetation and buildings.”
Maxar’s Vivid Standard basemap is available to over 220 customers, who can utilize it for a range of applications, including training, gaming, and planning. By coupling the basemap with artificial intelligence, organizations can create highly realistic 3D simulations, which will undoubtedly transform the way we interact with maps.
To create the Vivid Standard, Maxar combines an incredible 400,000 image strips, maintaining image consistency by using cloud-free imagery from the spring and summer months. The new basemap includes both native 30-centimeter per pixel resolution imagery and lower-resolution imagery enhanced through the use of AI and machine learning.
Maxar’s team is not stopping here, as they plan to continue to improve the Vivid basemap even further by aiming for an unprecedented 15 centimeters per pixel resolution in the future. This order of magnitude improvement would undoubtedly revolutionize our understanding of the world from space.
Overall, the new Vivid Standard basemap is a remarkable achievement that showcases Maxar’s commitment to innovation and technology. We can’t wait to see what other groundbreaking developments will come from these industry innovators in the future.