Data Platforms and Marketplaces
How do buyers find and buy satellite data, and do platforms and marketplaces capture value?
Chapter summary
Three kinds of platform sit between satellites and users.
Key takeaways
- 1
Public data hubs (the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, USGS EarthExplorer, NASA Earthdata) distribute free data.
- 2
Cloud analysis platforms (Google Earth Engine, Amazon's registry of open data, Microsoft's Planetary Computer data catalogue) host petabytes of imagery next to compute, so users bring their code to the data.
- 3
Commercial marketplaces (UP42, SkyWatch, Arlula, e-GEOS for IRIDE and others) aggregate many suppliers' archives and tasking behind one account.
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