Iceye launched its first commercial microsatellite in January. This is an image of Silicon Valley. Credit: Iceye

Iceye and Ursa Space forge SAR data-sharing partnership

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Iceye, the Finnish company flying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) microsatellite, forged an alliance with Ursa Space Systems, a firm that offers economic insights from geospatial data.

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Ursa Space Systems plans to use Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery to produce reports on oil storage in Caribbean, Middle East-North Africa and Europe. Credit: Ursa Space Systems

Ursa Space Systems raises $7M to turn satellite imagery into business intelligence

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With the new financing, Ursa plans to expand its customer base for products related to the global oil and gas industry, while continuing to develop the machine vision and machine learning algorithms it uses to create new data products.

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