Maxar Technologies, provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, announced that the Guyana Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has entered into a three-year contractual agreement with Maxar to provide the nation with environmental monitoring services for both offshore and terrestrial applications.
Guyanaโs Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will utilize Maxarโsย Crowโs Nest Maritime Monitoring and Security productsย to support offshore petroleum monitoring. The EPA will use the Crowโs Nest Maritime Tipping and Cueing Service, which leverages Maxarโs very-high resolution optical satellites, to monitor drilling vessels for regulatory compliance and safety. It will also use the Crowโs Nest Multi-Sensor Oil Detection Service to identify potential spills.
The agreement with Guyana marks Maxarโs first Crowโs Nest contract in Latin America and the Caribbean and is an important milestone in the application of Crowโs Nest to the environmentally critical use case of monitoring offshore petroleum activity.
Guyanaโs economy has grown significantly as a result of the influx of capital from newly discovered offshore oil and gas resources, and Maxar’s monitoring capabilities will help Guyanaโs EPA ensure the resource is sustainably managed, environmentally safe and able to be extracted for years to come.
Also included in the agreement, the Guyana Forestry Commission will combine several Maxar capabilities to track illegal deforestation, protect mangroves and safeguard the countryโs biodiversity. Products that will support this work include:
- SecureWatch: This cloud-based platform provides on-demand access to Maxar’s high-accuracy, high-resolution satellite imagery and analytics.
- Persistent Change Monitoring (PCM): PCM highlights human changes in an area and displays persistent change accessibly as a color-coded geospatial data layer.
- Imagery tasking capabilities.
โMaxarโs geospatial data and analytics will help MNR protect the environment for future generations while also sustainably developing the extraction of Guyanaโs natural resources for long-term economic gains,โ said Hon. Vickram Bharrat, M.P, Guyanaโs Minister of Natural Resources.
โMaxar is the only company that can offer these diverse environmental monitoring technologies under a single contract,โ said Tony Frazier, Maxarโs Executive Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector Earth Intelligence. โWe applaud Guyanaโs Ministry of Natural Resources for applying our industry-leading technology to help meet its environmental goals.โ