The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what customers want

Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus... by n8cpdx on Monday April 18, 2022 @06:52PM (#31077692)

The imagery is often already captured, so if I want to give Maxar $250 I don’t see why they wouldn’t take it.

Eos (iirc it’s been a while) actually let me buy some imagery, but they would only give me pictures, not actual georeferenced rasters.

The actual manipulation and use of the data, even for machine learning, is pretty straightforward these days with ArcGIS. So yes, I want pixels.

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Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus... by astrange on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:43PM (#31078164)

Usually corporate culture reasons prevent a business like that from just taking your money. They don't want to undercut their giant custom contracts and don't know how to handle customer support for cheaper people.

And I can imagine the cheaper customers are a lot less educated and don't have the right expectations, like how often their target area is covered in clouds.

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