[PaulMest]

I took a tour of their SF office last year. It's a pretty impressive operation. The satellites are indeed quite small; I always compare them to a loaf of bread with some wings. The people that work there are pretty sharp and seem to be very excited about what they do.

I was one of the first people to consume their v0 and v1 APIs to get their analytic imagery dataset. It was more challenging than it should have been to transfer ~100TB into our compute cluster. I haven't touched their API in about 7 or 8 months, but from my last meeting with them they said they have eliminated my top pain point. Looking forward to seeing more great things from them.

[terravion]

There's a lot more to do in remote sensing, but I think your comment that there's an API for looking at the world is perhaps the more accurate way to describe the power of this moment in technology history. It is a great feat Planet has accomplished.

[rmason]

Agree a lot more is possible with remote sensing. I worked with it in ag in 80's and 90's, the biggest problems were:

1. Price was to high for the value we could offer

2. 40% chance we wouldn't get a usable image of the field due to cloud cover

3. Its one data point, you can see a problem but can't always figure out what's wrong.

I'm really hopeful for drones that can operate below the cloud cover and AI that can take bare soil images, tile maps, soil tests and provide a more intelligent answer for fixing the problems.

What the farmer wants is a prescription with a shot at a decent ROI.