“Internet in space” will transform the satellite imagery industry

Post by dzhiurgis » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC

coredog64 wrote: post #64

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Would 100 megapixels make a big difference in availability No. Everyone talks a big game about SAR and resolution because it’s easier than latency. People don’t pay for resolution, they pay for immediacy. (The folks who do pay for resolution typically have their own birds. There simply aren’t many use cases for occasionally needing hyper-resolution photos of what something looked like a few days or even hours ago.)

I can think of a non-military use case: Tracking fishing vessels in the Pacific Ocean. Access to an EEZ is sold in “fishing days”. Vessels are required to have VMS, and there’s been work done on correlating VMS data with fishing, but it’s not a slam dunk. Immediate, high resolution photos would provide evidence of IUU such that the vessel could be intercepted and boarded while still within the EEZ. Even if the vessel…