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Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus... by achow on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:52PM (#31079610)
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.

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Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus... by nl on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:27AM (#31079754)
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.
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Re:The satellite imagery industry still has no idea what cus... by achow on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:09AM (#31093034)
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.

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