GPS-Denied Navigation Anywhere in the World | Raptor by Maxar Technologies

May 23, 2025

How do drones navigate without GPS or extra hardware? Raptor, a suite of vision-based software products that use Maxar’s unique global 3D data, delivers a breakthrough terrain-based positioning system for drone navigation and sensemaking in GPS-denied environments. Discover how drones can navigate, position themselves and extract CAT-1 ground coordinates in real-time—using only their onboard camera and our global 3D terrain data. No GPS. No additional hardware. 🔹 How Raptor's vision-based system is changing autonomous ops 🔹 Why human-like navigation matters for real-world missions 🔹 How Raptor can empower operators—and even help avoid conflict. Raptor was designed and developed to support both commercial and military missions.

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