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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by patrickk on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @08:50AM (#13651942)
If you Google "hedge fund satellite data", you'll get loads of results, e.g:

> Every five minutes a satellite captures images of China’s biggest cities from space. Thousands of miles away in California, a computer looks at the shadows of the buildings in the images and draws a conclusion: China’s real estate boom is slowing.

> Traders at BlackRock, the money management giant, then use the data to help choose whether to buy or sell the stocks of Chinese developers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/business/dealbook/the-nex...

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by zeristor on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:52AM (#13652359)
With this in mind have people been gaming the system?

A building on its own is a liability, its only worth something if it has occupants (or property prices are rising)

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by piercebot on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:45AM (#13652756)
China is hard, though, because it's cloudy very often. Having a fleet of satellites in orbit with a ~15 minute revisit rate will be game changing to making sure you find exactly what you're looking for on the day you're looking for it.
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