CATALYST — Earth Data, Simplified.
By: Kevin R Jones
Tags: Geography, Satellite Technology, Earth Observation, Remote Sensing, Geospatial

New Licensing models

The underlying science accessible through traditional licensing terms was also in need of modernization to reflect the way in which today’s geospatial data and applications are made, and consumed. While the installation of thick client applications on desktop or server configurations is, and has been common in our industry, recent and rapid increases in the size of datasets demands new distributed computing solutions that also require new ways to license CATALYST technology.

CATALYST Products — New offerings now available through modern licensing models

CATALYST Professional

The professional edition, now available as a subscription with many flexible bundles, provides the ideal testing environment to develop workflows, perform validation and work towards automation of results. A Python API makes it easy and straightforward to call algorithms, while an interactive testing environment (with viewers and GUIs) allows testing and verification of algorithms and workflows.

CATALYST Enterprise

The enterprise edition, now available as a subscription, offers pre-made workflows to easily achieve automation. Per core processing licensing has been implemented, and when combined with subscription based licensing models, greatly increases the accessibility of this technology to organizations of all sizes.

CATALYST Services

The CATALYST Insights demonstration application was deployed leveraging the individual modules (roughly 15 algorithms in this case) needed to generate InSAR products. The required algorithms can thus be licensed and deployed accordingly. Rather than purchasing a complete license which would include hundreds of algorithms that are not needed, the main advantage is that consumers of CATALYST Services have the option to purchase and pay for licenses of the algorithms when they are needed.

CATALYST Insights

Subscription based access to information as a service is possible through CATALYST Insights. Land deformation monitoring services are available and can be deployed to end users via the easy to use web application (https://insights.catalyst.earth), or information can be provided through the CATALYST Insights API, allowing consumption of derived information layers into other popular GIS platforms such as Esri’s ArcGIS. The cost to use the application will vary based on the size of the area requested, the temporal frequency, and the type / resolution of imagery (commercial vs open data).

CATALYST OEM

Several use cases necessitate alternative means to license CATALYST capability where public cloud processing may not be possible. A good example of this is an embedded solution, deployed in the field (for example, drone data processing in remote locations). Other processing and operations may form the overall solution such as drone navigation, system calibration, camera operation, which could be offered by other OEM partners or built in-house. In this case, CATALYST OEM forms part of the overall solution, and is licensed based on the algorithms required to complete the work. Subscription based access to the required algorithms offers the benefit of limiting the licensing costs to the required algorithms that form the overall solution.

Engaging with our team

PCI Geomatics has been working to solve our customer’s challenges by developing technology for earth observation for many decades. Whether you are a current, past, or potential customer or partner, it would be our pleasure to engage with you to understand what problems you seek to solve, and how we can help. A team of experienced sales engineers can work with you to see how the new ways we are delivering our science can help to make simple access to earth data possible.

https://catalyst.earth/about/contact/

Kevin Jones

Vice President — Product and Marketing

M: +1 (613) 878–6295

jones@pcigeomatics.com

www.CATALYST.Earth