![]() “The traditional way of purchasing imagery by phone allows you to package fuzzy logic into the conversation,” said Iceye co-founder Pekka Laurila. ![]() Still, some customers benefit from conversations about tasking because of the many variables involved. Iceye also is rolling out an API and a web portal to allow customers to input tasking requirements for the Finnish company’s SAR constellation. “Once it hits the ground, with no human in the loop, it gets processed and it shows up either through the API or through the Console, depending on how it was ordered,” said Payam Banazadeh, Capella founder and CEO. Imagery collected is downlinked during the satellite’s next pass over a ground station. The order is then transmitted to the satellite through Inmarsat’s communications constellation in geostationary orbit. An automatic scheduler determines which of Capella’s seven synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites in low Earth orbit is in the best position to fulfill the order. Customers can select a location for tasking. Earth observation startups and established firms have worked for years to streamline the process.Ĭapella Space offers customers access to an automated scheduler through an API or through the Capella Console web portal. “What’s changing? What’s growing? What’s the impact of some human event or some natural disaster?”īlackSky is not alone in reimagining satellite tasking. “It gives the ArcGIS users options that they never had before to derive important GIS information,” Legeer added. ![]() ![]() “When the tasking is done, that data comes down into a user’s ArcGIS Online” account. “By clicking a button that pops up in an ArcGIS app, users can task an area of interest,” said Beau Legeer, Esri imagery and remote sensing director. “If you have the credentials to our system, you can just log in and book orders directly into an API.”īlackSky Technology announced plans July 12 to offer tasking through a new cloud-based application that allows BlackSky customers to order imagery through Esri’s ArcGIS Online cloud-based mapping platform. ![]() “You don’t have to call anybody on the phone anymore,” said Emiliano Kargieman, Satellogic founder and CEO. The lag between image order and delivery was typically measured in days and only achieved through lengthy phone conversations. That’s no longer the case. SAN FRANCISCO – For years, consumers of Earth-observation data lamented the time required to task satellites to collect imagery of a specific site. ![]()
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