[rasen58]

Are there any use cases of satellite imagery that you think will emerge but haven't yet due to current costs?

[winstontri]

I think wedn3sday hit some of the key use cases we're personally excited about!

Agriculture is an interesting use case we're also excited about! While it's one of the most obvious applications, adoption has been curbed through historically high minimum order sizes, where cost is an implicit factor. Some providers require up to a 250 sq. km minimum order area, which already prices out a lot of small time farmers. We're hoping to reduce our minimum order area to 1 sq. km. and help enable this semi-neglected portion of the market. One company we're excited about in this space is Enveritas, a company looking using geospatial data to push for sustainability within the global coffee industry.

That's just one I can think of from the top of my head!

[omneity]

At Monitoro[0] we've been asked for satellite imagery monitoring (geographic change detection). Supplier prices were prohibitive but I'm glad to see activity in this space (pun non intended) and we're considering pursuing it at some point.

[0]: https://monitoro.xyz

[wedn3sday]

- Environmental activists holding large corps responsible for illegal dumping. - Tracking illegal fishing operations. - Tracking migrant animal flocks. - All sorts of litigation surrounding land-use.

[notahacker]

I worked with a startup using satellite imagery around illegal dumping and land use litigation, and affiliated with a university looking at illegal fishing! For some types of illegal dumping open satellite data gets you a long way even with 10m pixels: the real difficulty is getting actions taken or proof of who's doing it when its not the landowner.

I think the 10cm resolution could be as significant in opening up new use cases.