Radiant Spotlight

Illegal fishing, global intrigue and more!

Radiant Solutions, a branch of the former DigitalGlobe and now folded into Maxar, created a fantastic series of GEOINT-driven publications called the Radiant Spotlight. Here’s one of my favorite issues that I worked on. It deals with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Back in 2015, a Pulitzer Prize-winning DigitalGlobe-Associated Press investigation used satellite imagery to identify illegal fishing vessels. It resulted in more than 2,000 enslaved fishermen being released and brought the perilous state of the world’s oceans and fishing stocks into sharper focus for a wider audience. Click here to access the full report.

Inventing Geoscape

Geoscape Case Study

This rich, interactive PDF case study provided a lengthy introduction to Geoscape, a product derived from DigitalGlobe’s platform capability by a partner in Australia. It was intended as a top-of-funnel piece but evolved into more of a mid-funnel asset that users could download from a landing page. Click the headline to see the entire PDF.

 

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