In this episode we are talking about analyzing satellite imagery for interesting use cases here on Earth. Our guest is Jakub Dziwisz from the startup Orbify. Their platform aims to make it really easy to deploy apps that take advantage of satellite imagery for use cases such as tracking deforestation and many others.

 Opportunities to learn more about space business:

• Check out the new edX/EPFL Space Economy MOOC: https://www.edx.org/course/new-space-economy
• Raphael is also designing a new live-taught course. Join the mailing list to get updates and early access: https://jfx8zhjodpz.typeform.com/to/t0VSuhVD

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro

2:23 Elevator Pitch

5:26 Use cases

12:00 Origin of the company

15:52 How the platform work in practice

20:23 Data sources

22:51 Further use cases 

26:34 More on data

28:48 Go-to-market

32:26 Revenue model

33:49 Capital intensity and funding

37:46 The Polish space ecosystem

41:18 What else is interesting in space?

43:13 Sci-Fi