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Yes, though at this point I'd say this is old news and table stakes, so I expect everyone to be using this type of data already. As an example, Orbital Insights began tracking 250k parking lots across 96 retail chains at least all the way back to 2017. Same for things like monitoring gas silo levels via satellite imagery, etc. If you read it on the blog of one of the many sat image providers I would assume there to be no more competitive advantage to be had, unless you can read additional information from that data that other traders might have missed.

It’s true and part of our origin story

Was it Jacob Goldstein’s interview with Planet?

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats-your-problem/seeing-da...

Even governments use this technology to calculate how high stockpiles of certain minerals or resources are based on shadows and time of day