Closing the Gap Between Digital Promise and the Physical World
The inevitable rise of a scalable terrain baseline As the economy is increasingly coordinated through digital systems, geospatial data is shifting from supporting analytics to serving as infrastructure. Terrain is among the primary physical reference layers underlying virtually all other classes of spatial data. This article asserts that terrain data as infrastructure only scales as […]
The Scaling Limit of Buying Lidar Data
Licensing and Purchasing Lidar Data as Refresh Scales Data Volume The way spatial data is bought or licensed determines who pays for it over time, and whether systems scale cleanly or accumulate hidden operational costs. Whether spatial data is bought or licensed determines who pays for its production, who carries the burden of keeping it […]
Can Utilities Realize Meaningful ROI from EO Data Without Near Total Automation?
Recent posts by Matt Sheehan highlighting the beauty and potential of fusing various satellite collected geospatial data sets to mitigate utility risk from vegetation have got me thinking: can this type of advanced geospatial technology produce meaningful ROI without near total automation? Don’t get me wrong, I love the technology, it’s awesome, beautiful, and allows […]