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Experiment with ICEYE Open Data

120 points by marklit 6mo ago

campchase 6mo ago
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- thinkingQueen 6mo ago
  That is a very sour take on Iceye. Based on what I’ve read Iceye is doing better business than Umbra. They can’t be that bad. Also, Iceye has demonstrated very good military performance in helping Ukraine.
kiproping 6mo ago
From my casual glance, I can see only few images of particular spots and no timeline so that you can go back in history. Seems pretty rudimentary, like the 15 images you get from EOSDA LandViewer that you can only download a very low resolution thumbnail. Did you find the data helpful?
- traceroute66 6mo ago
  > Did you find the data helpful? No. Its frankly hilarious they think they can seriously put the words "SAR imagery from the world's largest SAR satellite constellation" on their homepage. If money were being charged for it, some might call it "false advertising". It looks to me more like a VERY limited subset of images from the satellite constellation in question. Either that, or the constellation in question is minuscule. Either way, something doesn't add up.
  - krisoft 6mo ago
    I’m all for stomping out bait and switch, but "SAR imagery from the world's largest SAR satellite constellation" does not imply that you will get all the imagery they have. Same as if i describe a liquid as “water from the Atlantic” it need not be a particularly impressive amount of water. > Either way, something doesn't add up. They are in the business of selling a particular type of data. They are not incentivised to give away their product for free. What you see here is the “first hit is free” kind of sample.
    - traceroute66 6mo ago
      > They are not incentivised to give away their product for free. What you see here is the “first hit is free” kind of sample. This is exactly what "bait and switch" means. May I remind you that their website states "No registration. No paywall. Download and start working."
xnx 6mo ago
"Iceye" is a homophone nightmare. Ice? Icey? I? Eye? See? C? Sea?
- _doctor_love 6mo ago
  You forgot "Ice Ye" - the latest unexpected twist in the saga of Kanye!
  - dylan604 6mo ago
    Does that mean he became an agent on the streets? So if we unmask all of the ICE agents it might be like the finale of the Masked Singer?
    - yowlingcat 6mo ago
      I was thinking more of a Breaking Bad arc. Pulling off a decent Heisenberg would be a lot easier than some of the other stuff he's done..
- freetonik 6mo ago
  It's pronounced "Ice eye". According to the people I know from this company, the original use case was tracking the ice cover of the Northern seas, for both marine applications and climate research (the company is Finnish).
- deleted 6mo ago
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- skeeter2020 6mo ago
  don't know the answer, but "Icy Eye" is the best
- stronglikedan 6mo ago
  I thought it was going to be an ICE tracker from the name alone.
- xnx 6mo ago
malux85 6mo ago
Seeing the glacier move like that is beautiful
- marklit 6mo ago
  141 scenes in this dataset have MP4 counterparts.
dhx 6mo ago
For more, there is also Umbra SAR open data at [1]. Most of this imagery is also copied to Wikimedia Commons where if someone has got around to doing so, much better metadata may have been added, and smaller images of key features within a larger scene extracted. [1] https://registry.opendata.aws/umbra-open-data/ https://registry.opendata.aws/umbra-open-data/

120 points by marklit 6mo ago

campchase 6mo ago

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thinkingQueen 6mo ago
That is a very sour take on Iceye. Based on what I’ve read Iceye is doing better business than Umbra. They can’t be that bad. Also, Iceye has demonstrated very good military performance in helping Ukraine.

kiproping 6mo ago

From my casual glance, I can see only few images of particular spots and no timeline so that you can go back in history. Seems pretty rudimentary, like the 15 images you get from EOSDA LandViewer that you can only download a very low resolution thumbnail. Did you find the data helpful?

traceroute66 6mo ago
> Did you find the data helpful? No. Its frankly hilarious they think they can seriously put the words "SAR imagery from the world's largest SAR satellite constellation" on their homepage. If money were being charged for it, some might call it "false advertising". It looks to me more like a VERY limited subset of images from the satellite constellation in question. Either that, or the constellation in question is minuscule. Either way, something doesn't add up.
- krisoft 6mo ago
  I’m all for stomping out bait and switch, but "SAR imagery from the world's largest SAR satellite constellation" does not imply that you will get all the imagery they have. Same as if i describe a liquid as “water from the Atlantic” it need not be a particularly impressive amount of water. > Either way, something doesn't add up. They are in the business of selling a particular type of data. They are not incentivised to give away their product for free. What you see here is the “first hit is free” kind of sample.
  - traceroute66 6mo ago
    > They are not incentivised to give away their product for free. What you see here is the “first hit is free” kind of sample. This is exactly what "bait and switch" means. May I remind you that their website states "No registration. No paywall. Download and start working."

xnx 6mo ago

"Iceye" is a homophone nightmare. Ice? Icey? I? Eye? See? C? Sea?

_doctor_love 6mo ago
You forgot "Ice Ye" - the latest unexpected twist in the saga of Kanye!
- dylan604 6mo ago
  Does that mean he became an agent on the streets? So if we unmask all of the ICE agents it might be like the finale of the Masked Singer?
  - yowlingcat 6mo ago
    I was thinking more of a Breaking Bad arc. Pulling off a decent Heisenberg would be a lot easier than some of the other stuff he's done..
freetonik 6mo ago
It's pronounced "Ice eye". According to the people I know from this company, the original use case was tracking the ice cover of the Northern seas, for both marine applications and climate research (the company is Finnish).
deleted 6mo ago
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skeeter2020 6mo ago
don't know the answer, but "Icy Eye" is the best
stronglikedan 6mo ago
I thought it was going to be an ICE tracker from the name alone.
xnx 6mo ago

malux85 6mo ago

Seeing the glacier move like that is beautiful

marklit 6mo ago
141 scenes in this dataset have MP4 counterparts.

dhx 6mo ago

For more, there is also Umbra SAR open data at [1]. Most of this imagery is also copied to Wikimedia Commons where if someone has got around to doing so, much better metadata may have been added, and smaller images of key features within a larger scene extracted. [1] https://registry.opendata.aws/umbra-open-data/ https://registry.opendata.aws/umbra-open-data/