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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by cprayingmantis on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:56PM (#11261799)
Hey that's pretty awesome have you thought about applications of this tech in agriculture? Perhaps keeping an eye out on crops and trying to predict yields or crop health?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by brobinson on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:46PM (#11262152)
My first thought was futures trading. I've heard of people using their own private satellites to do something similar. There was a company in SF building and launching small, shoebox-sized satellites inexpensively which could be used for it.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by kartikkumar on Thursday March 10, 2016 @04:49PM (#11262679)
I suspect you're referring to Planet Labs: https://www.planet.com
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by brobinson on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:42PM (#11270869)
That was it!
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Pl... by wfn on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:16AM (#11266386)
Yep, if you are able to gather data over near-infrared (NIR) as well as red channels, you can compute NDVI which is a kind of vegetation index. It's interesting stuff and I would look into using the tech for agriculture surveys, constant monitoring and automatic advisory compilation (where to water things etc.)
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