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You completely missed the point. The point - are any of those folks that lead the small sat revolution running successful farms now? No. It's hubris to think
by iancmceachern 2y ago
You completely missed the point.
The point - are any of those folks that lead the small sat revolution running successful farms now?
No.
It's hubris to think that one skillset subsumes another just because one uses the other.
The food those sat folks eat whole developing said revolution- growm by farmers, so they are the onea that enabled the sat revolution. We can do this all day.
- defrost 2y agoMost of that early work sourced "the good images" from air survey photographs. Early tech leaders (ERMapper, LizardTech, famously fought it out over "infinite" image formats with "unlimited" resolution) in Earth resource mapping that integrated air, sat, geophysical, etc. data absolutely had significant members that came from farming families and retired to farm ownership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Resource_Mapping,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Reso.... "Running a successful farm" has a high business and tech element these days, and certainly did in the 1980s, growing ever since. There are overlapping skillsets here, it's entirely possible to be able to fly a cropduster or drape lowlevel air survey lines, higher photographic runs, and understand, run, and own a farm, and have some mathematical and programming chops. Unsurprisingly a number of those pioneers had overlapping skills.