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> Today, buying commercial satellite imagery involves a back-and-forth with a salesperson in a sometimes months-long process, with high prices that exclude all
by dr_orpheus 6y ago
> Today, buying commercial satellite imagery involves a back-and-forth with a salesperson in a sometimes months-long process, with high prices that exclude all but the biggest companies.
When I read statements like this, I tend to read it as "We are not Maxar (Digital Globe)". They are definitely the "legacy" in the commercial satellite imagery market. But what do you see as the discriminator of your company to newer companies providing commercial imagery like Planet and BlackSky? High resolution and thermal imagery are certainly discriminators but other companies are driving that direction too (higher resolution, larger spectral coverage).
- topherhaddad 6y agoIt's a good question, and I while I obviously have no definitive information on other satellite companies, I will say that spatial resolution isn't everything. The higher you go, you give up temporal resolution and area coverage, which is key for Planet's monitoring mission. There's also plenty of other phenomenologies to go after - for example Blacksky announced their next-gen constellation will have SWIR. And for us, the thermal is really only possible since we are already capturing such high resolution visible (due to the long wavelength of LWIR).
- canadianfella 6y agoWhat is a phenomenology?