campchase

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by campchase 2y ago
It's cherry-picked, but it's a combination of commercial tasking and discretionary tasking. There isn't much to read into in terms of the distribution, it's just one person's best guess at where there's likely
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by campchase 2y ago
Wow, that's a cool idea. I bet you absolutely can. When you image a ship broadside, it gets projected onto the surface in a flattened way we call "layover" - here's an example of how nicely ships pop out on a flat sea:
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by campchase 2y ago
If anyone has questions about SAR as a tool for tracking human activity - movement of ships or otherwise - I'm happy to answer questions. Mark's work here makes great use of our open data archive, now over 20TBs of openly licensed
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by campchase 3y ago
I’m personally really worried. It doesn’t bother me when I hear my neighbor flying his drone. And I never notice the Cessna survey planes overhead. But god forbid, on a clear day at exactly 10am I’m sunning my cheeks on my back porch when t
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How to Sell Technology to the Government(userogue.com)
4 points by campchase 3y ago|0 comments
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by campchase 4y ago
Absolutely brutal for the SkyFi team trying to have a relaxing Saturday afternoon - keep up the good work, you nuts.
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by campchase 4y ago
Best comment in the thread, I knew about Onyx but nothing more than the Wikipedia page (hardly anything)
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by campchase 4y ago
Agree with you! Fun fast: the largest US satellite imagery provider, Maxar, was founded by the technical program lead for Brilliant Pebbles. It’s a small world and history rhymes.
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by campchase 4y ago
I can’t comment on Griffin or the history of SDA, but proliferated LEO targets are much harder to take out with an ASAT than a small number of MEO or GEO satellites that are practically sitting ducks. If it costs ~$10M to take out a ~$1B as
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by campchase 4y ago
I hope so. I wrote a whole article about it: https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/open-all-of-the-satellite... Even Maxar is starting to deeply discount old imagery via their ARD program: https://twitter.com&#
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by campchase 4y ago
> How do see the chances for other competitors to be able to catch up with SpaceX/Starlink? I like to remind people that it’s actually SpaceX who is still catching up to legacy providers of space-based connectivity. As I mention i
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by campchase 4y ago
Will go into more detail on why I believe that in part II but you are spot on.
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by campchase 4y ago
It’s a dual-use technology, and while my job is to focus the commercial half of the equation, I’m not ashamed to support the US military and intelligence communities, either.
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by campchase 4y ago
Convenient
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by campchase 4y ago
Could be. I still think the juice won’t be worth the squeeze (is there an example in the history of comms satellites where they felt it was worth going after the much smaller EO market?). But the rumor in the industry is that they’re comin
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by campchase 4y ago
My name is Joe Morrison, and I’m ready to be roasted on here again. Please feel free to ask me anything or challenge any of what I’ve written!
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by campchase 4y ago
Stop snoopin and send me a connection request, George!
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A simple mental model for understanding the satellite imagery industry(joemorrison.substack.com)
6 points by campchase 4y ago|0 comments
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by campchase 4y ago
Umbra Lab Inc. | Software Engineers | Santa Barbara CA, Austin TX, Remote (US) | https://umbra.space - Software Engineer, Full Stack - Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack - Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Senior Product
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by campchase 4y ago
Information wants to be free, as they say
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by campchase 4y ago
It is!
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by campchase 4y ago
You are correct. I’m talking mainly about low Earth orbit satellites. There are some LEO weather satellites or concepts - Tomorrow.io is a notable one.
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by campchase 4y ago
Thank you for sharing that, I find it very validating. Sometimes it’s nerve racking to publish an opinion piece like this when I know I am extrapolating from very limited and biased information. Sounds like you worked at Orbital Insight, De
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by campchase 4y ago
Very interesting, thank you for sharing that!
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by campchase 4y ago
Huh I never thought of that, but that’s a great observation
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by campchase 4y ago
Sorry to break it to you but you already have access to this. It’s called MODIS, and it’s free ;)
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by campchase 4y ago
Agreed. I’m biased, but keep an eye on synthetic aperture radar. The physics of those systems allow for monitoring with a pretty different theoretical limit on price-per-revisit from their optical companions: https://joemorrison.
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by campchase 4y ago
I think this is a fair summary. Don’t sleep on GEE, Orbital Insight, and Descartes Labs, though. All three have incredibly impressive platforms that can spin up new custom models and deploy them at scale very quickly. And Microsoft is start
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by campchase 4y ago
I’m sorry to hear that. Planet is a company I admire quite deeply. I think they are well aware of the difficulties folks like you have had working with them in the past and I’ve seen firsthand the lengths they’ve gone to remedy that once ma
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by campchase 4y ago
It’s blurry. Can you take an action based on information presented to you from within the software? Probably a sign it’s an application at that point and not just a data feed.

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