Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by boulos on Saturday January 21, 2023 @07:26PM
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Their write up is a little confusing, especially when combined with your statement.
> The imagery starts with panchromatic plus 4 color aerial imagery that was collected at a native GSD of 3.8 cm, which enables accurate removal of aerial sensor properties and resampling to the Albedo 10 cm resolution and camera properties.
Makes it sound like they have a spatial resolution of 3.8cm per pixel. This isn't panchromatic in a single pixel, but that's also true of things like Bayer mosaics in digital cameras.
Where do you see 30cm+?
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by alberth on Sunday January 22, 2023 @04:36PM
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> Note: Our license, reflective of our satellite's capability, allows 10cm GSD panchromatic imagery and pan-sharpened imagery processed with 40cm GSD RGBN pixels.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by alleycat5000 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @07:51PM
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Albedo hasn't launched any satellites yet...
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by joshmn on Saturday January 21, 2023 @09:23PM
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The weirdest thing about Albedo is that their header image was taken with a commercially-available drone, at least according to the file name: https://assets.website-files.com/5fd162c9db04e672a0b0e2b7/60...
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You think you'd at least be proud enough of your stuff to have it as a header image.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by justusthane on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:07PM
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Well that sure seems like false advertising!
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by GasTrader on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:12AM
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Albedo is a partner but they have not launched yet. When we post our resolution, it is native not enhanced. In version 1.0 we have not turned on 30cm. We do intend on adding this feature once we finish the QC process. Typically Google earth is Arial imagery in dense areas or approximately 4Ocm inagery. Hope this clarifies.
Re:Buy Hi-Resolution Satellite Images of Any Place on Earth
by alberth on Monday January 23, 2023 @03:37PM
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> Typically Google earth is Arial imagery in dense areas or approximately 4Ocm inagery
Where I live (large US metro), Google earth is definitely <20cm or better where I live.
I can almost distinguish individual roof tiles on my home.
The CEO in this thread says they use Albedo for imagery.
I feel like Albedo is way overselling their capabilities because it’s not real 10cm imagery. It’s essentially computational photography taken at a way worse resolution (>30cm), and does a poor job computing a better image.
If you read about it in their blog post and actually zoom in on their example simulated 10cm image, it looks quite bad. Way worse than just Google Earth.
https://albedo.com/post/albedo-simulated-imagery
Direct image link:
https://assets.website-files.com/5fd162c9a5bb9e401ce96317/62...
What’s also super confusing is SkyFi uses Google Earth to be the viewer you use to find the image you want to buy from them, so you’re essentially being shown a way higher resolution (Google) aerial photo than what your actually buying.
Back to Albedo, what’s also frustrating is they rarely include the word “simulated” when they talk about 10cm imagery (should ALWAYS be stated as “simulated 10cm”). Which leads people to believe their image products are higher resolution than they really are.