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I'm a LANDSAT fan to the extreme. But I suspect that Planet will step up and provide a (subscription based) alternative, at zero up-front cost to the US Governm
by jvanderbot 1y ago
I'm a LANDSAT fan to the extreme. But I suspect that Planet will step up and provide a (subscription based) alternative, at zero up-front cost to the US Government. Over short time horizons, this is cheaper. Over long ones ... who knows?
- larrled 1y agoThe “Planet” being L3harris/peter theill?
- jvanderbot 1y agohttps://www.planet.com/ https://www.planet.com/
- larrled 1y ago[flagged]
- robocat 1y agoI couldn't find anything that suggests where their major profits (≈ major income) would come from. I assume finance: Hedge funds? Insurance industry? Are government and science users just secondary sources of income?
- jvanderbot 1y agoI'm fairly sure government is a primary consumer, up there with hedge fund types. They do some primary analysis, but the big market is in "processed" data, if I understand it correctly, so people will buy this data wholesale, hook up a subscription API, and feed it directly into their analysis pipelines. https://www.planet.com/company/customer-stories/ https://www.planet.com/company/customer-stories/
- notahacker 1y agoGovernment users includes the defence sector...
- notahacker 1y agoI think the main thing is the US government doesn't want to subsidise anyone studying it. Sure even without LandSat hardware the US Government can get the data from Planet and dozens of other commercial EO constellations, for free from ESA's Sentinel programme and random academic and small country CubeSat projects. But will they?