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by wweissbluth 92 days ago
Oh 100% - we think rail would be an excellent market. But as you've stated, they already have a thing moving around (the train) to take photos.

We see less delta in our service (but still something). There's certain perspectives only our aerial vantage point could capture, but we're too focused on power utilities right now to run that to ground just yet.

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Sometimes, you might be able to get a twofer, in that transmission lines often run very near tracks. However, somebody would be getting inferior imagery if they weren't the focus of the camera. But if the tracks are near enough to your lines with chargers installed, it might still allow some low hanging fruit after your initial client win. Maybe make your base stations cable of handling two drones; one for the power lines, the second for the tracks. I'm more rambling than tempting your focus. Just fun to think about.

Curious, does a straight flyover of lines/towers/poles offer the footage necessary, or do you have to orbit the support structure to see enough detail? That would obviously add much more time/expense.