Imagine you could have eyes on every asset, project, or piece of land you own or look after? Whether you are a farmer, a miner, a first responder, an academic, or a government regulator, you could have up-to-date information on whatever you were interested in, wherever you are, and whenever you wanted. The increased intelligence, the enhanced operational control, and efficiency and productivity gains for every organisation is enormous.

Earth observations (EO) provide these eyes in the sky. Such data is an important driver for science and economic development around the world and although there are many forms of EO technologies (e.g. drones), the one that gets the most investment is EO from space via the use of satellites. There are currently thousands of operational satellites in orbit and around 40% of these are being used for EO purposes.

EO satellites were traditionally very large pieces of equipment that we could only afford to launch infrequently. These days there are clouds of nanosatellites provided by Planet the size of a shoebox orbiting the earth and taking aerial photography quality images of the earth.