Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus...
by achow on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:52PM
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Parent commentator's contention..
Pixels are there anyway, and infinitely scalable - you can sell exact same pixels to infinite number of people.
So why not to make a very easy UX to extract the pixels of your choice as per customized timeline.
It almost sounds foolish not to do it.
Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus...
by nl on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:27AM
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The issue is that Google Earth imagery is good enough for most manual processes, Open Source imagery is good enough for a lot of automatic processes and there are relatively few markets that are willing to pay for frequent (1 month+) updates.
Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus...
by achow on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:09AM
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I want to give a location (pix+radius, four corners or whatever) and a delivery schedule (once a week etc)
This is the requirement. The timeline could be once a week, once a month or once a .. - the point is not frequency but predictability. With Google Earth, Open Source, et al there is no predictability, that's why they are not answer for THIS potential customer.
I know satellites are getting cheaper but there are still limits to the cost of targeted image acquisition right? Is the price at which these customers are able and willing to pay enough to cover those costs?
For example it'd be a cool feature to check where my food delivery man is at in real time through satellite imaging but that can't possibly be a profitable use case.