{"id":13,"date":"2023-12-03T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/172-105-101-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2023-12-15T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T03:09:09","slug":"the-cost-of-satellite-imagery-for-independent-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/03\/the-cost-of-satellite-imagery-for-independent-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Satellite Imagery for Independent Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have always wondered about the cost of high-resolution satellite imagery. We see satellite imagery being used more and more in news articles, and with more vendors entering the market, I thought that the cost of imagery for independent analysis would likely not be unreasonable. It looks like I may have underestimated the cost significantly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to my work, I search Google a lot for research. Because of this, I receive <a href=\"https:\/\/apollomapping.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apollomapping.com\/\">Apollo Mapping<\/a> ads. Apollo Mapping makes finding and accessing satellite imagery relatively easy. Using their <a href=\"https:\/\/imagehunter.apollomapping.com\/\">Image Hunter application<\/a> you can easily search for imagery within a specified extent. The image results are returned with information on spatial resolution\/ sensor type\/ and cloud cover. You can request a quote directly within the application and the response time from their sales team was within an hour. The cost structure is based on a price per square kilometre and the image is delivered clipped to your specified extent. For the <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.esa.int\/eogateway\/missions\/pleiades\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/earth.esa.int\/eogateway\/missions\/pleiades\">Pleiades image<\/a> I was interested in\/ the cost was $18.50 USD per square kilometre. For my 28 sq\/km extent\/ this came out to $518.00 USD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is far too much for my independent analysis and I will need to look else where. Luckily I should be able to use <a href=\"https:\/\/eos.com\/find-satellite\/sentinel-2\/\">Sentinel-2 Imagery<\/a> for free and the 10-meter spatial resolution should suffice. Stay tuned for more on how to access and use Sentinel-2 Imagery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always wondered about the cost of high-resolution satellite imagery. We see satellite imagery being used more and more in news articles, and with more vendors entering the market, I thought that the cost of imagery for independent analysis would likely not be unreasonable. It looks like I may have underestimated the cost significantly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-satellite-imagery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccsgeo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}