Rapid Delivery of Online Geospatial-Intelligence (RDOG)

"When RDOG was announced, it was an innovative, world imagery solution providing support to the war-fighter by combining DigitalGlobe's imagery and web services solutions," said David Robinson, DigitalGlobe's senior director of US National Security Programs. "Over the past year, the RDOG program has exceeded expectations and has proven to be extremely beneficial when responding to recent world events. We are honoured to continue our relationship with the NGA to offer innovative imagery solutions in support of the war-fighter."

RDOG was first announced in June 2009 and continues to solidify the web capabilities that DigitalGlobe has offered for the last 5 years. DigitalGlobe's standard web services enable rapid dissemination of the latest NextView-licensed imagery of specified areas to the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) within 24 hours of collection. The imagery has been used to respond to humanitarian efforts related to the crises in Haiti and Chile as well as military exercises around the globe.

DigitalGlobe was the original RDOG supplier and the service is now an NGA standard. In the first year of the programme, DigitalGlobe expanded RDOG's capabilities to include offline deliverables in addition to the online deliverables. This capability extends RDOG's viability into areas without internet connectivity - a situation often faced by users.