I recently wrote about the commercial satellite imagery industry and how fundamentally backwards it is. In that piece, I was mainly addressing companies serving up data derived from the narrow swath of electromagnetic spectrum we humans are most comfortable with — visible light (and its nearest neighbor, infrared light). As it turns out, there’s a whole world of spacefaring companies capturing data about the earth in the oft-overlooked expanses of the electromagnetic spectrum that we humans can’t naturally perceive.
Thanks for this article! Just letting you know that the link to Nearmap is broken (should be https://www.nearmap.com/us/en)