GDA

What GDA does

GDA Corp is a privately held U.S. company, founded in 2002 and headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, that specializes in processing and analyzing airborne and satellite imagery for agricultural intelligence. The company's core technology platform aggregates imagery from a multitude of satellite and airborne sensors and applies automated processing pipelines to deliver value-added global imagery and in-season crop assessments (crop condition, progress, acreage, and yield) at sub-field to country scales. GDA positions its three R&D pillars as sensor-agnostic ingestion, operational automated processing of massive satellite datasets through agile algorithm development, and applied agricultural analysis. The firm describes itself as one of the largest commercial processors of satellite imagery, delivering terabytes of processed imagery to clients within 24 hours of acquisition.

GDA's primary client is the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), for which it has served as a prime contractor since 2005, delivering imagery processing and analysis in support of federal agricultural intelligence. The company also serves commercial agricultural enterprises, integrating value-added imagery and regional analyses into clients' proprietary agricultural management and global decision support systems. The team is composed of GIS and Remote Sensing experts, computer scientists, and business managers.

The business model rests on three revenue streams: government prime contracts (USDA FAS), competitive SBIR grant funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and quote-based commercial analytics engagements. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is scoped per client. GDA pursues a sales-led, consultative go-to-market focused on direct enterprise and government relationships, supported by a corporate website and direct phone/email outreach, with no public API, channel partners, or self-serve distribution.

Name

GDA

Legal name

GDA Corp

Website

https://gdacorp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GDA Corp, founded in 2002 and headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania, processes and analyzes airborne and satellite imagery into agricultural intelligence for government agencies, notably the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and commercial agricultural clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Geospatial Analytics

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote Sensing & Imagery Analytics (Satellite, Drone, Aerial) (AFABAMAB)

Keywords

• Satellite imagery analysis
• Agricultural intelligence
• Crop monitoring services
• Remote sensing analytics
• Geospatial image processing

Headquarters

HQ city

State College

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government prime contracts: GDA has been a prime contractor to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) since 2005, providing imagery processing and analysis services under federal contracts.
2. SBIR grant funding: GDA has a seasoned track record of winning highly competitive Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grants to develop state-of-the-art technology.
3. Commercial client analytics services: GDA delivers value-added imagery and rapid repetitive regional analyses to commercial clients for integration into their agricultural management systems and global decision support systems.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

GDA Corp processes and analyzes airborne and satellite imagery for agricultural intelligence, aggregating data from a multitude of sensors to deliver terabytes of value-added global imagery to clients within 24 hours of acquisition. The company provides frequent, objective in-season assessments of crop conditions, progress, acreage, and yield from sub-field to country levels, integrating outputs into customers' agricultural management and global decision support systems. Its work is anchored in sensor-agnostic imagery ingestion, automated large-scale processing pipelines, and applied agricultural analysis developed over two decades of SBIR-funded R&D.

Product overview

GDA operates as a single integrated platform offering satellite and airborne imagery analysis for agricultural intelligence, founded in 2002 and headquartered in State College, PA. The core offering, the GDA Satellite Imagery Analysis Platform, is built on three R&D pillars: sensor-agnostic technologies, operational automated processing of massive satellite datasets, and applied agricultural analysis. Building on this, GDA delivers the In-Season Crop Assessment Service, which produces frequent, objective assessments of crop conditions, progress, acreage, and yield from sub-field to country levels. These services are powered by GDA's Sensor-Agnostic Image Processing Technology, developed through SBIR-funded research, and together enable GDA to serve as a prime contractor to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service since 2005 and deliver value-added imagery to commercial and government clients within 24 hours of acquisition.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GDA Satellite Imagery Analysis Platform Core service offering providing sophisticated processing and deep analysis of airborne and satellite imagery for agricultural intelligence. Aggregates imagery from a multitude of sources to enable global cropland coverage and delivers terabytes of value-added global imagery to clients within 24 hours of acquisition.
• GDA In-Season Crop Assessment Service Rapid, repetitive regional analyses producing objective in-season assessments of crop conditions, progress, acreage, and yield from sub-field to country levels, integrated into clients' agricultural management systems and global decision support systems.
• GDA Sensor-Agnostic Image Processing Technology Technology that enables GDA to process imagery from a multitude of satellite and airborne sensors uniformly, supporting operational automated processing of massive datasets. Developed through SBIR-funded research and serving as a foundational element of GDA's pipeline.

Quantifiable outcome

• Delivery of TBs of value-added global imagery to clients within 24 hours of imagery acquisition
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2005GDA has been a prime contractor to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) since 2005. This long-running federal relationship has shaped GDA's R&D direction, providing an environment to develop leading-edge agricultural image processing technology without the pressures of the commercial marketplace and offering access to leading experts in the industry.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Planet Labs: Operates one of the largest commercial satellite constellations and increasingly offers analytics, including agricultural monitoring, directly competing with GDA's downstream processing and analysis layer while also serving as a potential imagery source.
• Maxar Technologies: Major satellite imagery provider with significant U.S. government/defense and intelligence contracts; competes with GDA in federal earth-observation workflows and offers higher-level analytics products.
• BlackSky Holdings: Satellite operator offering near-real-time imagery plus analytics, including for agricultural and government customers — both a potential source of imagery and a competing analytics provider.
• Satellogic: Earth observation company building a sub-meter resolution satellite constellation with downstream analytics, representing both a potential imagery supplier and competitor in agricultural intelligence.
• Climate LLC (Bayer): Digital agriculture platform under Bayer providing field-level agronomic insights, satellite-derived analytics, and decision support — directly comparable to GDA's commercial agricultural intelligence output.

Direct peers

• Descartes Labs: Geospatial analytics platform that ingests multi-source satellite imagery and provides agricultural intelligence, yield forecasting, and commodity insights — directly comparable to GDA's sensor-agnostic analytics offering.
• Orbital Insight: Geospatial analytics company applying AI to satellite and other imagery for agriculture, supply chain, and government customers, with a multi-sensor ingestion architecture comparable to GDA's.
• Taranis: Aerial imagery and AI-powered crop intelligence platform serving agribusinesses and growers, overlapping directly with GDA's in-season crop condition and yield assessment services.

Emerging players

• CropX: Ag-analytics company combining soil sensors, weather, and satellite imagery for farm-level decision support — a partial-overlap emerging player in precision agriculture analytics.
• EOS Data Analytics: Satellite imagery analytics provider with a dedicated agriculture vertical, offering crop monitoring and yield prediction — overlapping with GDA's agricultural intelligence offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gda-corp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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