Restrictions on SAR Eliminated
The new rules heavily benefit two American companies Maxar a optical imagery provider and Umbra Lab a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery provider both have satellite systems that were being seriously restricted…
Special Issue “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Techniques and Applications”
Special Issue “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Techniques and Applications” This editorial of the special issue titled “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Techniques and Applications”, was written by Fabio Bovenga reviews the…
Ursa Space Systems Get an Additional $15M
Ursa Space Systems, a satellite services company co-founded five years ago by two alumni, has received $15 million in Series B funding, led by Razor’s Edge Ventures and Empire State…
MDA will likely go public (again), after $1-billion takeover
MDA’s revenue was expected to decline this year because of the end of its most recent Radarsat mission. Radarsat makes a lot of money for MDA. Maxar said the businesses…
R2 Space Receives Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Contract
R2 Space Inc., an Ann Abor-based space intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance provider, announced April 20 it has won a contract by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) that it says will…
Data fusion provides a 55% increase over training on SAR data alone.
Jacob Shermeyer, Daniel Hogan, Jason Brown, Adam Van Etten, Nicholas Weir, Fabio Pacifici, Ronny Haensch, Alexei Bastidas, Scott Soenen, Todd Bacastow, Ryan Lewis "We find that state-of-the-art segmentation models trained with multiple modalities outperform those trained with only a single…