By Piers Dormeyer, EagleView CEO
Technological Innovations: “What major technological advancements or innovations do you foresee occurring in your industry in 2025, and how do you plan to adapt or lead in these areas?”
As a technologist at heart and by training, I’m always interested in the technical developments and advances happening in the industries we are a part of. As I look ahead, I continue to believe we will see changes as a result of machine learning and the increasing adoption of AI – which should come as no big surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Among the areas we are paying particularly close attention to includes feature extraction, agentic AI and the larger landscape of digital transformation.
We have observed that machine learning-based feature extraction is accelerating customer demand for aerial imagery. With that, higher resolution imagery is desired to unlock new insights and increase data accuracy in more and more industries. These new categories of customers are coming to us asking for new and easier integration options that have high performance and availability so that they can build new solutions and workflows. It’s why last year we built out a team particularly focused on new landscape growth because more and more people are understanding how to utilize aerial imagery.
Beyond that, and more broadly, we believe agentic AI will take center stage as a way to boost the benefits of current state GenAI tools and models. Current GenAI solutions have plateaued in their effectiveness in driving productivity for business users. And, agent-based AI architectures can make large models more effective at reasoning in specialized domains, performing computational tasks, and executing on complex workflows. This is both true in the geospatial industry but also broadly and we will be embracing this idea in our forthcoming products.