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RESULT By resolving the key, automated-classification component of its solar e-commerce system, Geostellar was able to expand its reach into solar hotbeds across the US as well as offer its customers an efficient way to soften the hard costs of solarizing the country. "We've been able to map about 80 percent of the most valuable solar markets at one-meter resolution," said David Levine, Geostellar CEO. "That's connected us to valuable markets such as California, Massachusetts and Connecticut, states that we wouldn't have been able to do business in had we not been able to extract features automatically." Connecticut's Clean Energy Finance & Investment Authority (CEFIA) is using Geostellar's platform to efficiently connect the solar curious with solar contractors in Connecticut. Through CEFIA's GoSolarCT web portal, more than one million Connecticut homeowners can obtain specific data regarding their home's suitability for solar and compare energy and cash savings for solar leases and loans. Geostellar extended its solar reach to individual consumers. In December 2013 it launched a consumer-centric extension of its online solar marketplace called SolarMojo ™ , a free mobile app that allows homeowners to compare solar installation and financing plans from industry leaders and purchase a system with the push of a button. By nearly automating the A-Z of "going solar," technological solutions like Geostellar's are not only reducing manual labor to the physical installation of a system, they are helping to ultimately drive down the total cost of developing the solar energy market. HIGHLIGHTS AT A GLANCE ► Geostellar needed Building Footprints in order to customize solar modeling to the residential property scale. Creating a database of Building Footprints is traditionally extremely expensive, because it has largely been done by hand. ► eCognition empowers Geostellar to create high resolution, high accuracy building footprint geometries in an efficient manner, with an margin of error small enough that manual intervention (manual QC) is not required. ► The ability to extract these geometries in an automated fashion is the only way that such a large undertaking as mapping the entire US at the individual property level is possible. "With eCognition, I can quickly assess the quality of the datasets that I'm working with, tweak the rule sets accordingly, and the software does the rest." Dan Koopman, a spatial analyst with Geostellar Contact your Distribution Partner today © 2014–2017, Trimble Inc. All rights reserved. Trimble, the Globe & Triangle logo, eCognition, and Inpho are trademarks of Trimble Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. PN 022516-067A (10/17) TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS NORTH AMERICA Trimble Inc. 10368 Westmoor Drive Westminster CO 80021 USA EUROPE Trimble Germany GmbH Am Prime Parc 11 65479 Raunheim GERMANY +49-6142-2100-0 Phone +49-6142-2100-140 Fax ASIA-PACIFIC Trimble Navigation Singapore PTE Limited 3 HarbourFront Place #13-02 HarbourFront Tower Two Singapore 099254 SINGAPORE +65-6871 5878 Phone +65-6871 5879 Fax