Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by lukefischer on Saturday January 21, 2023 @05:03PM
(#34471082)
Excellent thoughts!
Once more supply comes then there is obviously more consumer optionality (time of a break in). We test internally on ordering a New Image via tasking a satellite (aka pass prediction) but I'm not willing to release it to the wild until its reliable and a magical experience. We aren't there yet.
Speed of delivery is extremely important. Again, more supply means better speed and future tech will enable downloads faster.
Copy all on multispectral and will put that into the pipe to clear up re: bands
Exclusivity pricing is interesting and what we talk about a lot. It's a tougher problem because you may buy that image from us from a specific provider but then another provider could take the same exact image and it's not unique anymore. Regardless, will work on it and if there is enough demand then I'm all about it.
Few thoughts:
(1) Depending on your acquisition contracts, you may have scattered access to historic imaging. For a consumer, having an image of my house around e.g. the time of a break-in is valuable. (As a party trick, recent imagery will work in a way “wait a day” doesn’t.)
(2) You’ve heard this, but it bears repeating: four hours is an order of magnitude more valuable than 24 and an order less than one. You should be able to predict fast-return windows, given orbits and ground station coordinates, for a given AOI. Bonus: natural time pressure on the sale.
(3) Multispectral options unclear. May be worth discriminating by band.
(4) Exclusivity pricing. Where you sell the image to me, fully, and without retaining the right to re-sell it to anyone else.
There also appears to be a name collision with an Israeli ISP?