Where to purchase satellite imagery

My estimated budget was under 10K USD. The project had a short deadline so I had a maximum time of two weeks to get the data. I thought that in the third decade of the XXI century and all the marketing budgets from satellite data providers, the whole process will be as simple as finding the data, paying, and downloading the selected imagery. Apparently, the purchase process is much more difficult and it seems that in reality, nobody is interested in selling you the data!

The first challenge is already at the first step of the process, how to find the data I need? As I found out, that there is actually no data catalogues pertaining to which satellite imagery is available and where you can get it! The situation was so ridiculous, that I decided to make an open-source project to help things out with data discovery. Here is an excel file that has a list of all the satellite data from the majority of earth observation satellite systems with resolutions and key parameters.

This list also helped me discover that, other than the key players like Airbus and Maxar, there are several smaller players that can offer me the data I need e. So, instead, I started exploring my professional network for the same. Thus, my team started visiting the websites and online portals of Maxar, Airbus, Harris, Planet, and many others.

And to our dismay, no website had the option to buy the data directly. All of them would somehow redirect you to direct contact with the sales department at some point.

So, my team wrote an email to every company, stating the area of interest and other details. And after two days, only Harris replied… and although we are a few weeks later no other vendor has yet replied to our query. Search Image Hunter Now. QuickBird cm Natural Color - St. Louis, Missouri; June 23, Petersburg, Russia; June 7, Overview Tasking vs Archive. Tasking Order A tasking order is an on-demand service whereby clients define a custom polygon on the planet to be imaged by the next available high resolution satellite.

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