To speed up access to Earth observation data for millions of customers, Esri is closely integrating its ArcGIS geographic mapping platform with Microsoft Azure Space. “We’re putting the entire technology stack in Azure Space data centers,” Richard Cooke, Esri, imagery and remote sensing director, told SpaceNews at the World Satellite Business Week conference here. “We are co-locating our technology by the antennas to reduce the latency, automate a lot of the post-processing and get to the meaningful data as quickly as possible.”
Azure Space also added the Planetary Computer, a Microsoft platform that combines multi-petabyte global datasets related to biodiversity and climate change with machine-learning tools.
