With billions of dollars in sight form Saab is a joint venture with the US company Digital Globe.
The goal is to create a three-dimensional model with unique precision over large parts of the world based on high resolution satellite images.
– We see an opportunity that can provide several billion dollars. We will literally produce the world with unprecedented precision, says Tony Frazier, vice president at DigitalGlobe, according to Reuters.
His company and Saab forming the joint company Vricon. DigitalGlobes archive of high-quality commercial satellite images to be combined with Saab’s advanced 3D technology to create high-resolution, photo-realistic 3D products of at least one third of the world’s commercially usable surface.
Also, Saab believe that big money can be downloaded from players in defense, security and infrastructure.
“Together with the Digital Globe, we take our unique 3D technology and applies it to benefit our global customer base. At the same time we also take a further step forward towards our long term objective to grow in the United States, “writes Dan Jangblad, business area manager at Saab, in a press release.
Saab and Boeing of the US is also trying together to get an order worth about 90 billion to build new training aircraft to the US Air Force.
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