In modern conflict zones, the proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aerial systems (UAS) with equally low-quality sensors, in addition to widespread GPS spoofing and jamming, have rendered traditional drone video collection unreliable. Significant metadata drift in tactical video feeds leads to “targeting paralysis”: high-quality imagery is available, but the underlying geographic coordinates are too inaccurate for precision activities.

To solve this, Raptor Sync georegisters the full-motion video feed from the drone’s on-board camera with Vantor’s 3D terrain data in real-time, enabling downstream GXP intelligence fusion, multi-domain interoperability across different sensors, and accurate ground coordinate extraction at a demonstrated absolute accuracy of <3 m. This system enables previously impossible intelligence and targeting workflows.

“In contested environments, the sensor’s imagery and video collections are only half the battle; the accuracy of the data it produces is what determines mission success,” said Kurt de Venecia, senior director of product development at BAE Systems GXP. “By including Raptor directly into our GXP intelligence workflows, we are providing analysts with the ability to maintain absolute targeting confidence, even when the platform’s systems or inertial sensors lack high absolute accuracy.”

Injecting corrected Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata from Raptor directly into the drone’s video stream at the edge enhances accuracy prior to exploitation in GXP software. This overrides inaccurate telemetry, enabling analysts using GXP solutions to extract weapon-quality coordinates and execute intelligence and targeting missions in real time.

“Analysts cannot afford to lose confidence in where a target actually is,” said Paul Millhouse, senior director, raptor products at Vantor. “By using Raptor to correct video before it enters the GXP Ecosystem, we’re enhancing the performance of existing and new drone fleets. The result is a more resilient workflow for extracting accurate ground coordinates and maintaining operational tempo.”

Source: BAE Systems

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Under this follow-on award, Vantor delivers and operates GEGD Pro, a secure, web-based geospatial intelligence platform that leverages Vantor’s Tensorglobe software suite. Designed exclusively for NGA as the primary commercial GEOINT platform for the U.S. government, GEGD Pro provides secure access to commercial and government furnished GEOINT content for more than 1.2 million government users across 250+ organizations.

GEGD Pro is a source-agnostic platform that integrates multiple geospatial data sources, including digital maps, refined persistent change model data, and other derived products. It also enables secure viewing, streaming, and analysis of petabyte-scale datasets, including commercial electro-optical, radar, and other NGA-procured data—a scale unmatched by other hosting platforms.

“GEGD Pro demonstrates how a flexible, integrated platform can support critical national security missions today while scaling for tomorrow,” said Susanne Hake, executive vice president and general manager, U.S. government at Vantor. “The platform delivers uninterrupted, trusted access to GEOINT, enabling faster, more informed operational decisions and delivering capabilities that can extend beyond a single agency to other mission partners.”

While GEGD Pro is NGA-specific, Vantor can configure its Tensorglobe spatial intelligence platform to serve as a foundation for other government and large enterprise programs. The platform’s underlying components—Cortex for intelligent tasking, Forge for production and fusion, and Nexus for content hosting and access—can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge for maximum flexibility and security. These components deliver core platform capabilities to any environment, orchestrating data flows across tasking, collection, content production, fusion, and AI-driven analytics.

Source: Vantor

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Maritime domain awareness (MDA) has long been constrained by fragmented sensors and siloed workflows. Detection happens in one system, identity verification and behavioral analysis in another, forcing analysts to manually connect signals across AIS, RF, SAR, and electro-optical imagery. This fragmentation breaks custody—especially for vessels that intentionally go dark.

This partnership eliminates that gap by integrating Sentry directly into Windward’s platform, connecting vessel detection, identity, and behavior into a single, continuous intelligence loop. The result is a persistent, automated intelligence layer that transforms MDA from reactive analysis into a continuous, decision-ready system.

“From the Indo-Pacific to the Arctic, maritime activity is becoming more contested and complex, and adversaries are exploiting the seams between sensors, disabling AIS and masking identity faster than traditional workflows can keep pace,” said Peter Wilczynski, chief product officer at Vantor. “Windward has built a powerful intelligence layer that unifies maritime signals, and with Sentry, we’re adding the orchestration and identity layer that closes that gap to create an end-to-end monitoring system that delivers automated, persistent intelligence at the pace of real-world activity.”

Sentry, Vantor’s automated persistent monitoring system, drives automated multi-sensor tasking of Vantor’s high-resolution electro-optical (EO) imaging constellation and third-party synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors for broad-area search, enabling seamless SAR-to-EO tip-and-cue workflows without manual intervention. This moves operators from detection to confirmation in a single continuous process.

This system feeds vessel detections to Sentry’s AI-powered fingerprinting capability, which generates a canonical identity for each vessel based on imagery-derived characteristics to maintain custody across sensors, time, and geography—even when vessels disable AIS or never transmit at all. These fingerprints are fused with Windward’s intelligence stack, including AIS and RF data, creating a unified operational picture across detection, identity, and behavior at global scale.

Beyond vessel tracking, the integration extends persistent monitoring from sea to port infrastructure. Sentry continuously analyzes port activity using Vantor’s 20-plus-year historical satellite imagery archive to establish patterns of life, assess capacity, and track turnaround dynamics over time. This creates a continuous intelligence layer that integrates directly with Windward’s Early Detection capability, enabling operators to both detect and explain anomalies—not just flag them.

“This is a significant step forward in our mission to deliver the most comprehensive, decision-ready maritime intelligence available,” said Ami Daniel, CEO and co-founder of Windward. “Dark activity has been one of the hardest problems in maritime domain awareness, no single source of intelligence is sufficient to track vessel activity. By integrating Vantor’s Sentry system, we are closing the loop between detection and identity, enabling our customers to produce high-confidence intelligence on vessels of interest continuously, even when they go dark.”

The Vantor integration further strengthens Windward’s multi-source intelligence architecture, complementing AIS, SAR, EO, RF, and proprietary AI models with a persistent, space-based orchestration layer. Together, the partners are delivering a fully fused operational picture that enables defense agencies, law enforcement, and commercial operators to anticipate threats, enforce sovereignty, and act with confidence across the maritime domain.

Source: Vantor

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For decades, space-based intelligence has forced a tradeoff: you could either see the world in high detail or monitor it continuously, but not both. This expansion to Vantor’s constellation, which already delivers the most accurate and high-resolution imagery on orbit, eliminates that tradeoff for the first time.

These new satellites, Vantor Vantage and Vantor Pulse, build on the success of Vantor’s state-of-the-art WorldView Legion program, which doubled collection capacity, introduced dawn-to-dusk monitoring, and set a new benchmark for commercial imaging performance. Legion satellites are already supporting high-priority missions for customers around the world, delivering the scale, accuracy, and reliability required for operational missions.

With Legion, Vantor’s constellation can collect over 3.5 million square kilometers of highly accurate 30 cm-class imagery daily and revisit the same location on Earth up to 15 times per day. The expanded fleet will further increase this collection capacity while improving revisit rates five-fold, unlocking imaging of the same location on Earth as frequently as every 15 minutes.

These capabilities enable a continuously updated, real-time view of the world in 2D and 3D—allowing customers to detect change, maintain up-to-date maps, track activity, and predict emerging threats at machine speed.

Vantor expects to bring the first Pulse satellites online as soon as 2027, followed by the first two Vantage satellites as soon as 2029.

“Vantage and Pulse usher in a new era of space-based intelligence—it’s the first time that governments and businesses can get both detailed imaging and real-time monitoring from a single commercial system,” said Dan Smoot, Vantor CEO. “That fundamentally changes how intelligence is generated and used. Instead of choosing between accuracy and speed, customers can seamlessly collect, fuse, and deploy our multi-class intelligence within their sovereign systems, turning space-based data into a real-time operational capability.”

Source: Vantor

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Under the $2.3 million contract, Vantor will utilize its high-resolution imagery of space objects, also known as non-Earth Imagery (NEI), to deliver intelligence on priority objects in low Earth orbit, including providing alerts when anomalies are present. The analysis will be largely automated, marking a significant step forward in eliminating manual processing and accelerating timely and actionable insights for Space Domain Awareness.

“In a contested domain like space, awareness is everything,” said Susanne Hake, executive vice president and general manager, U.S. government at Vantor.  “Still, it’s the one domain where exquisite visual intelligence is extremely hard to come by, creating literal and figurative blind spots. Our NEI capabilities are one of the few technologies that can provide high-resolution visual intelligence of objects in space, providing intelligence analysts and decisionmakers with a deeper understanding of the behavior and intent of high-interest space objects—a decisive edge in an increasingly complex environment.”

Vantor’s orbital intelligence capabilities can provide insights into a space object’s features, health, velocity, and movements, including whether an object is changing orbit—a situation that could endanger the safety of U.S. assets in space. Vantor satellites can capture images of other spacecraft at an industry-leading resolution of less than 10 cm from hundreds of kilometers away, making it possible to quickly characterize those space objects and determine their health and status.

This award marks the third win for Vantor under NGA’s Luno program. Vantor previously announced a Luno contract to automatically detect land use land cover change at global scale, enabling NGA to anticipate where maps and their features may require updates. And in June, Vantor was awarded a Luno contract to deliver AI/ML-generated object detection services to identify assets across air, maritime, land, and rail domains; determine counts at specified locations; detect trends and anomalies; and perform advanced spatial and temporal geospatial intelligence analysis.

“These awards reflect the core of Vantor’s mission—to deliver real-time intelligence faster than the speed of threat, from space to ground,” said Hake. “By integrating our persistent monitoring, change detection, and space-domain awareness capabilities, we’re empowering our partners to understand and act on threats across every domain, before they emerge.”

Source: Vantor

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Building on more than 6 years of successful prototype work, Vantor will leverage its 3D Vivid Terrain product and advanced modeling technology to deliver accurate, ultra-realistic 3D representations of Earth. Powered by Vantor’s Forge production and fusion software—which continuously ingests and fuses data from satellites and drones—Vivid Terrain represents the most precise, texture-rich digital twin of the planet available today. The resulting datasets feature sub-3-meter accuracy in all dimensions with real-world surface textures, enabling immersive simulation and mission-rehearsal environments that support both classified and commercial operations.

The OWT program serves as a cornerstone of the Army’s Synthetic Training Environment (STE), providing realistic, automatically generated global geospatial datasets for simulation-based collective training, mission rehearsal, and mission execution.

“We’re proud to continue our partnership with the Army’s One World Terrain program,” said Susanne Hake, executive vice president and general manager, U.S. government at Vantor. “Our team is delivering high-precision, immersive 3D terrain that enhances the Army’s ability to train, rehearse, and execute missions with confidence anywhere in the world. This award reflects Vantor’s commitment to providing trusted, innovative spatial intelligence solutions that meet the evolving needs of the U.S. Army.”

Source: Vantor

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Through this integration, Vantor becomes the first spatial intelligence company to deploy Google Earth AI models in air-gapped government environments. Vantor can fine-tune and retrain these models using a customer’s sovereign data—combining Vantor satellite imagery, third-party commercial imagery, and a customer’s own remote sensing sources—to unlock more advanced, integrated intelligence.

The Earth AI imagery models will also be integrated into Vantor’s mission applications, beginning with Sentry, to support persistent site monitoring and broad-area maritime monitoring workflows.

Google’s Earth AI models represent a breakthrough in geospatial AI, leveraging proven architectures trained on massive datasets of satellite and aerial imagery to accurately map buildings and roads, locate specific objects and features, assess post-event damage, semantically understand scenes, and more.

This integration marks the first time Earth AI imagery models have been deployed commercially against a dataset with the scale, accuracy, and temporal depth of Vantor’s AI-ready spatial foundation, which includes highly accurate, global-scale 2D and 3D data.

Combining the power of Earth AI imagery models with the scale, depth, and quality of Vantor satellite imagery, Vantor customers can rapidly unlock complex and valuable use cases.

Vantor’s spatial foundation covers virtually all of Earth’s landmass in 2D and 95% of the highest areas of interest in 3D. The foundation is supported by a 20-plus-year archive of high-resolution satellite imagery, including the deepest archive of 30 cm-class imagery available commercially. That foundation is continuously refreshed by Vantor’s imaging satellite constellation, which can revisit the same location on Earth up to 15 times per day, providing a consistent, current baseline for automated analysis and change detection.

Source: Vantor

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Under the contract, Vantor will use AI-powered analytics and integrate data from multiple space-based sensors—including its own imaging satellites and third-party electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites—to identify changes to the Earth’s physical terrain.

The insights will drive updates to NGA’s comprehensive Land Use Land Cover classification system, which ensures the accurate characterization of land use and its condition worldwide. Vantor’s proprietary change detection models can identify shifts in key features—including buildings, roads, vegetation, and other land cover elements—across diverse sensor types and data sources.

Additionally, Vantor’s insights will be key to supporting NGA missions including, but not limited to, natural and man-made disasters, regional conflicts, and events that require humanitarian assistance by providing on-demand change detection.

“This win highlights Vantor’s unique capability to integrate the vast amount of data from multiple sensors to not only detect changes on a global scale, but to also deliver advanced analytics,” said Susanne Hake, executive vice president and general manager, U.S. government at Vantor.  “We’re proud to continue to support NGA in delivering world-class GEOINT that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals, and first responders from seabed to space.”

Vantor’s virtual constellation capabilities enable the company to seamlessly collect, process, analyze, and disseminate intelligence from multiple space-based sensors to create an AI-ready living globe, making it possible to support large-scale global monitoring and anticipate where maps and their features may require updates.

Source: Vantor

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“We’re excited to partner with SkyFi to expand access to our spatial content products by welcoming them into our Partner Ecosystem,” said Will Cocos, Vantor’s chief transformation officer. “SkyFi has a fast-growing user base and an easy-to-use platform, making them an ideal partner to help us bring the most advanced space-based intelligence to more customers.”

The distribution partnership marks a significant step forward in expanding access to high-resolution satellite imagery for customers across a wide range of industries. SkyFi users can now seamlessly task and acquire data from Vantor’s extensive suite of spatial content products, including high-resolution satellite imagery tasking, 20-plus years of archival imagery, detailed 3D terrain data, and global-scale 2D imagery basemaps. The integration empowers businesses, researchers, government agencies, and organizations of all sizes to leverage top-tier spatial content directly through SkyFi’s intuitive platform.

“Integrating Vantor into the SkyFi platform represents a major step forward in our mission to make Earth observation data simple, accessible, and cost-effective for both businesses and individuals,” said Luke Fischer, CEO of SkyFi. “By expanding access to Vantor’s industry-leading satellite constellation through SkyFi’s user-friendly platform, we are breaking down the barriers that have traditionally limited the use of high-quality geospatial data. This partnership enables a new generation of users across industries to get the answers they need in order to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges.”

Source: SkyFi

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The partnership addresses a critical vulnerability in modern operations: GPS unavailability, spoofing, interference, and jamming. When satellite signals are compromised, autonomous systems and field teams lose their ability to orient, coordinate or maintain accurate situational awareness.

To address this, Niantic Spatial and Vantor are integrating two distinct, industry-leading localization technologies to create a unified operating picture. The joint capability will leverage Niantic Spatial’s ground-based Visual Positioning System (VPS) and Vantor’s aerial-focused Raptor visual positioning software to create a shared coordinate system from the live video feeds of autonomous drones, vehicles, AR glasses, and other field assets.

Combining these two capabilities offers an integrated air-to-ground system capable of allowing any sensor to determine its position in the real world. This ensures that a drone in the sky and a person on the ground can share coordinates in real-time, even without a GPS signal.

“By combining Niantic Spatial’s expertise in ground-based localization with Vantor’s proven aerial systems and global 3D foundation, we’re building an integrated positioning network that operates anywhere,” said Brian McClendon, chief technology officer at Niantic Spatial. “Our Large Geospatial Model gives these systems the ability to perceive, align, and operate in a shared frame of reference — even when traditional GPS is unavailable.”

“The rise of autonomous and mixed reality systems is reshaping our world, but these systems only work if they can maintain precise location intelligence when GPS is down,” said Peter Wilczynski, Vantor’s chief product officer. “Raptor powers GPS-independent autonomy in the air, and we’re partnering with Niantic Spatial to bring this capability to the ground. Together, we can connect any air- or ground-based camera feed to a unified view of the operational terrain for continuous operations. Built on field-tested software, this solution will easily integrate with hardware systems to give operators a decisive advantage in the field.”

Source: Niantic Special

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