“Sky’s the Limit”: How Vexcel Intelligence Can Help Governments Solve Problems Around the World

Ryan Bank, Vexcel’s Global Managing Director, says governments around the world are finding new, unforeseen uses for Vexcel Intelligence. He travels extensively, meeting with national mapping agencies and representing the company at conferences and summits, where he talks about what geospatial data can do across all industries.

Vexcel built its own native AI program, Vexcel Intelligence, to create a real-world foundation model. Bank explains that having the largest dataset of very high-resolution aerial imagery is critical not only to using AI, but to developing it.

Foundation models have been built by scraping the web and reading every book. They know a place’s history but not what it looks like, what condition it’s in, or where its lane lines, curb cuts, and bus stops are. Vexcel Intelligence searches and understands the entire corpus of Vexcel data, enabling AI models to see and understand the real world.

As governments use Vexcel Intelligence in new and exciting ways, they can leverage the results to better understand how to help their citizens. This increased understanding, Ryan indicates, can help governments better dedicate resources to solving major problems.