Privateer launches TerraScope Maritime, a multi-source tool to better analyze ocean activity

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A global fleet of observation satellites floats just off our atmospheric shoreline. Yet, our view of what’s happening on Earth’s seas remains far too dim.

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With present gaps in ocean monitoring and tracking, it’s difficult to reliably identify and avoid disruptions to supply chains, risks to vessels, and environmental impacts. Ships that could be involved in illegal fishing or drug and human trafficking are difficult to spot – and even more so to keep in view when they turn off navigation and tracking systems.

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These ‘blind spots’ are a complex problem in search of a robust solution. We’re happy to announce that our new tool, TerraScope Maritime, is here to provide just that.

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Bringing together its industry-leading capabilities in AI modeling, computer vision, space domain awareness, and data visualization, Privateer now offers a radical new ability to track, analyze, and predict activity on the ocean with a blend of data sources from sea to space. TerraScope Maritime’s rapid insights offer applications from supply chain, insurance, and ESG to defense and law enforcement.

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“Our ethos is very simple: know better, do better – and we have put our capabilities into a maritime insights tool that will enable commercial and government customers alike to do exactly those two things,” says Privateer General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer Declan Lynch. “Combining advanced analysis of multi-domain data with our ability to provide an unbroken ‘chain of custody’ gives the most complete picture yet of what’s happened before, happening now, and likely to happen next on the seas.”

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TerraScope Maritime is the first in a suite of domain-specific offerings growing out of the TerraScope geospatial analytics platform pioneered by Privateer subsidiary Orbital Insight. While TerraScope’s advanced algorithm enables speed, cost, and accuracy of information from a comprehensive range of sources, these features will also rely on something unique to the field: the space object tracking of Privateer’s Wayfinder application. 

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Wayfinder’s ability to predict the location of operational satellites up to five days out helps inform a seamless ‘handoff’ from one data source to another, keeping objects of interest in view and overcoming the price and scale limitations of individual satellite operators. The resulting more-robust data set then folds in with terrestrial for a truly complete all-domain picture. 

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This combined power of space domain awareness and Earth observation optimizes for collection of information to feed the most thorough analysis.

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This commercial capability is already selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for its first Commercial Solutions Opening, but that’s just the beginning. TerraScope Maritime is a tool made to help NGOs working on humanitarian and conservation issues, inform companies seeking to streamline operations and shrink their environmental footprint, and deliver the information government agencies need to provide for their constituents.

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Declan concludes: “This already-built product will allow, through a single easy access point, the power of holistic information to open new avenues for efficiency, growth, and the greater good."

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Learn more about TerraScope Maritime