Dr. Walter Scott is responsible for the development of space and ground systems, research and development, and technical oversight for engineering at DigitalGlobe.
Walter founded DigitalGlobe in 1992 as WorldView Imaging Corporation, which was the first company to receive a high-resolution commercial remote-sensing license from the U.S. government. WorldView become EarthWatch Incorporated in 1995, with Walter managing the development of all of its commercial remote-sensing satellites. EarthWatch became DigitalGlobal in 2001, and it currently offers the world’s highest resolution commercial satellite imagery.
From 1986 to 1992, Walter was with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Prior to joining LLNL, he founded and served as president of Scott Consulting, a UNIX systems and applications consulting firm. Walter holds a bachelor’s in applied mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and a doctorate and master’s in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley.
GPS
Mapping as Platform: Are We There Yet?
Mapping used to be a simple, literal, two-dimensional exercise. Today it's a four-dimensional adventure that allows us to capture specific data points and sets in never-before-seen-detail. It lets us navigate data, understanding and predicting in ways never before imaginable and realms never before reachable -- geographic, molecular, neural. Will new mapping technologies open new vistas of opportunity and progress, or just help us find new places to get lost? Epidemico's John Brownstein, ESRI's S.J. Camarata, Jr., Andrew Gold of RF Spot, Walter Scott of Digital Globe, and Richard Tyson of the UNOCHA Data Analysis Project discuss.
Conferences
Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
