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10 deeply held beliefs about the Earth observation industry:
1. The optimal way to capture the value of archival data is to give it away for free.
Joe Morrison
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Joe Morrison
@mouthofmorrison
“Controversial industry figure” and General Manager of Remote Sensing at @umbraspace. Synthetic aperture radar - even more complicated than it sounds.
- Why isn’t this getting more attention?Booster touchdown. #NS27
00:00 - Someone on Reddit found a stealth bomber in Google Maps. I love how the R/G/B bands smear for fast-moving objects in satellite imagery. Supposedly you can use that quirk to estimate speed of objects if you know a bit about the satellite.
- Pro tip: never share satellite imagery without attribution in general but REALLY try to avoid sharing Maxar money shot SWIR data without attribution
- YC company announces a giant data center in space Startup Twitter: Makes so much sense, it will be so easy to cool in space! Space Twitter: How the hell are they proposing to keep it cool??
- OSINT analyst uses the OpenStreetMap Overpass API to pin down his target’s location to within a meter using only clues spotted in the background of her selfie video
00:00 - Replying to @coldhealingI’ve been pronouncing it wrong but after watching this I don’t think I’m going to be pronouncing it right anytime soon
- Today we announced a new capability: bistastic imaging. Helped along by the invaluable support of our partners @DARPA, we've started launching and operating SAR satellites in tandem pairs flown in precise formation in order to simultaneously image a target.
- Replying to @mouthofmorrisonlol someone asked where the image was from and this was his response…Replying to @superhominalWhich photo are you referring to? The first one? You can right click on a computer and do search on google.
- What I look for in a deep tech founder: 1. Tweeting all the time about current political hot button issues with breathless conviction 2. Has never shipped 3. Giant American flag hung from the rafters wrong-side out 4. Entire team’s first job 5. “You can just do stuff”
- Throwing $500K of other peoples’ money into an idiotic space company coming out of YC on an uncapped note because you’re impressed by the founders’ pedigree is a much less expensive way to learn that space is hard than most of the traditional paths to the same conclusion
