The Space Data & Advanced Analytics Center will be a cloud-based, digital platform resourced to import/downlink, store, cleanse, manage, and analyze satellite data in concert with terrestrial data to solve local business public policy issues in innovative ways. This will be a distributed network of nodes, offering portals from various locations (ex. Roux Institute, University of Maine, Governor’s Office, etc.) to access satellite data (and other relevant data sets) for data science applications such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. It will be resourced with human capital that can specialize in satellite data and advanced analytics to drive the application of data toward the advancement of local industry and policy use cases and provide support and mentorship to data-centric startups and companies. It will require a cloud configuration with a network equipped with the hardware and software to import/downlink, store, cleanse, manage, and analyze satellite data in concert with terrestrial data to solve business and public issues in innovative ways and support the development of data-focused startups creating new data products and services.
