Pete Doucette

As EROS Director, Pete’s job is to accelerate innovation for a high-tech workforce that conducts a range of engineering and science activities that include: satellite systems operations; data center management; integrated geospatial product generation; and development of next-generation data collection missions that can leverage government and commercial data. Pete began his career in Geo-informatics in 1990, which has included positions in the private sector and the federal government. This experience has provided him with unique business perspectives for achieving process efficiencies through modernization. Pete has conducted and managed research & development spanning the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Remote Sensing, Computer Vision, Geospatial Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification, and Geostatistics. He is a leading proponent for IT modernization by accelerating development of AI systems across a wide range of applications that are inherently data driven. Part of his vision is to advance the use of AI Transformers to integrate multimodal data ‘implicitly’ to expand inferencing for decision making. For example, blending observation data collected from a variety of government and commercial platforms carries significant potential to improve characterization and forecasting of natural resources that support national security interests. Pete holds a Ph.D. in Spatial Information Engineering & Science, a M.S. in Civil Engineering, and a B.S. in Engineering Physics.