The government of Canada has announced a $7.6 million repayable investment to support research and development by PCI Geomatics on next-generation earth observation technology. The government’s investment is part of a $25.5-million research and development project that PCI Geomatics is undertaking.
The R&D project at PCI Geomatics will involve developing a high-speed computing framework and software suite that will make it possible to process large amounts of raw satellite image data faster and more cost-effectively, with an emphasis on increasing the automation of image processing. The resulting data are essential for decision making in many fields, including environmental monitoring, agriculture, security and intelligence, aerospace and defence, and wide-area surveillance.
