[wongarsu]

Buy satellite images of walmart parking lots, run this model to count the cars. Repeat this every week, buy walmart stock when the number goes up and short walmart when the number goes down.

Buy satellite images of container ports, count the number of containers, predict performance of economy based on containers and invest accordingly.

Presidential candidate has an open-air rally and you want to figure out how many people are attending? Buy a satellite image scheduled for that exact hour and let WALDO count the people.

Financing a number of large construction projects but don't trust the progress reports? Buy regularly scheduled satellite images and let WALDO count the number of trucks and construction vehicles.

Want to invest in the construction business? Guess what, buy satellite images, count trucks and construction vehicles, make investment decisions based on that

[walrus01]

There's multiple commercial data feed providers for AIS from pretty much every sizable cargo ship in the world (that isn't operating in some weird grey market economy like the Russian sanctions-evading tankers), which are already used to correlate aerial and SAR data with the self-reported AIS positions of vessels.