ICEYE is integrating artificial intelligence in the imagery analytics of its synthetic aperture radar constellation under a long-term partnership with Safran.AI.
The collaboration seeks to improve geospatial intelligence services that enable faster and more accurate decision-making by customers, including governments and the intelligence community, the companies said in a joint statement Monday. They added that combining SAR imagery and AI analytics offers customers sustained global surveillance capabilities.
Under the partnership, ICEYE will contribute SAR satellite sensors that detect and classify objects of interest around the clock in any weather at a sharp 25-centimeter resolution. Safran.AI has its new multi-modal AI system in electro-optical satellite imagery designed for near-real-time information processing to accelerate the intelligence cycle.
Through an earlier tie-up, ICEYE already uses Safran’s space-to-ground link systems to distribute its SAR imagery rapidly.
Rafal Modrzewski, ICEYE co-founder and CEO, said Safran.AI’s technologies enable the company to “maximize the value” of its SAR data.
“By adding ICEYE SAR imagery to Safran’s analytic capabilities, we bring together the industry’s best imagery with the industry’s best multi-sensor image exploitation capability,” he stressed.
Safran.AI CEO Jean-Yves Courtois sees the partnership as “a major breakthrough” for GEOINT customers. “By closely collaborating with ICEYE, we will achieve automatic SAR image analysis performance comparable to those of our electro-optical image detectors,” he said.