Case Study: Building an EO Analytics Product
What does it take to build a commercial analytics product on satellite data, from idea to paying customers?
Chapter summary
The hard parts are not the satellites or the model but the customer decision, the labelled history and the delivery workflow.
Key takeaways
- 1
Setcoin walks through a hypothetical product, "pipeline right-of-way monitoring" for a gas transmission company with 5,000 km of pipeline.
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The product detects construction, excavation and vegetation encroachment near the pipeline and alerts the operator.
- 3
Using a foundation model fine-tuned on a few thousand labelled examples, free Sentinel data for wide-area change detection and 50 cm tasking only when change is found, the product's data cost is a fraction of what high-resolution coverage of the whole route would cost.
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