Planet Labs, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that they have expanded into a new strategic partnership agreement with SynMax, a Houston-based satellite analytics and intelligence company.
This marks an evolution in Planet’s previously announced partnership with SynMax, providing data for energy industry intelligence and dark/spoofing vessel tracking.
The specialized agreement enables Planet to sell an analytics tool for vessel monitoring and classification to their customers. Through this unique offering, Planet customers will be able to leverage the combined strength of Planet’s unparalleled satellite data, enhanced with SynMax’s proprietary artificial intelligence, for a first-of-its-kind solution, named Theia.
This product will offer comprehensive data-informed intelligence for the maritime domain, providing actionable intelligence and the ability to roll back time across the maritime domain.
“We’re excited for this strategic partnership with SynMax, bringing together Planet’s unique dataset and SynMax’s algorithms to provide maritime domain awareness around the world,” said Kevin Weil, Planet President, Product & Business. “For our customers, timely and accurate data regarding maritime events can enable efficient market operations and enhanced security measures.”
Planet owns and operates the largest fleet of Earth observation imagery satellites, capturing a scan of the Earth on a near-daily basis. With a deep archive of high-cadence Earth imagery, stretching back over years, Planet users observe trends and identify patterns of change. With this robust dataset, SynMax can digest and process Planet data to identify and classify ships across the world, delivering customers with maritime insights for strategic planning on a customizable web-based platform.
“This new strategic agreement enables us to scale our maritime solutions,” said Brendan Moore, CEO at SynMax. “With Planet as the broadest collectors of over ocean imagery and SynMax utilizing the most advanced analytics to identify and track tens of thousands of vessels each day, together, we are providing a game-changing capability for maritime domain awareness.”
SynMax processes more Planet open water data than any other Planet partner, enabling broad area management of our seas. This data helps identify light, gray, and dark vessels, track illicit ship-to-ship transfers, and monitor illegal fishing operations. Through integrated multi-source intelligence fusion, the solution provides advanced insights into vessel spoofing and dark vessel tracking capabilities as ships fail to transpond accurate Automatic Identification System (AIS) positions.
