you may do some crazy son of a bitch with satellite imaging . What kinds of crazy shit ? Well , for one , a startup’sspying on the shadows of half - work up skyscrapers in Chinaand then selling the data to investor who desire to bode what the real land mart . That ’s crazy !
The inauguration is run by former Googler James Crawford , the guy cable who was once in care or scanning millions of books and making them searchable . Crawford ’s new company , Orbital perceptiveness , propose a whole menu of military service that take reward of the , uhhh , insights offer by time - stamp satellite imaging , The Wall Street Journalreports .
The Journal reports that Orbital Insights is not only monitoring structure sites in 30 Chinese cities but also ascertain farm to see what kinds of crop yields they might bring on and analyze the parking lots of big box entrepot so that their competitors can endeavor to approximate their sales number . manifestly , hedge fundsare unforced to grease one’s palms this form of datain trove .
This is surely only the beginning . Now that Googleis giving away satellite images for gratuitous , we should be expectingall kinds of dotty concern models to pop up . And as cubesats become loud and more prevalent , we ’ll certainly see some insane instauration in the orbit of real - time satellite images . Then , all ofyour Enemy of the State - inspired nightmareswill come true . [ WSJ viaBLDG BLOG ]
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