With almost 10 petabytes of data already acquired, Soar is planning additional imagery as part of their growth strategy. The aim of Soar is to enable anyone to explore and discover our ever-changing world.” Soar allows anyone to view the Earth from above, meaning it’s easy to observe things like environmental changes, including drought, melting ice caps, industrial growth, natural disasters like volcano eruptions, just to name a few uses. Soar’s Head of Growth, Tim Glover added, “Imagine if we could re-use that imagery in a way that was totally authentic, collaborative and most importantly, accessible to all. The same image uploaded to Soar contributes content to the seeding of the super-map, providing value to a global community, as well as generating income for the drone pilot.” “Imagery taken by a drone user can be uploaded to social media, and may attract a few likes, or will sit idle on a hard drive.

Soar addresses these limitations by generating dynamic, ever-changing data on our platform”. In many cases, the general public only has access to resources which are not updated as frequently. Soar founder and CEO Amir Farhand said: “The problem Soar is solving is that almost 80 percent of all mapping imagery is currently accessed through just one channel, which is, for the most part, reserved mostly for niche commercial use. Thus, becoming a one-stop-shop for the collection, distribution, and monetization of mapping imagery from different sensors. Governments will also be able to monitor activities such as the protests in Hong Kong, illegal mining or deforestation.ĭeveloped by geospatial experts, the map sources satellite images from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel and NASA’s Landsat feeds and the SuperView and Gaofen satellites.Īs well as satellite content, the super-map will integrate imagery sourced from drone owners (drone pilots) around the world, who can earn passive income as the value of their imagery becomes realized. This includes but is not limited to environmental disasters such as wildfires, tsunamis, hurricanes and drought. Oct 25th, 2019 – Satellite imagery company Soar has today announced it is now allowing public access to its satellites which provide near-real time imagery all across Earth at 10m resolution per pixel.īoth the public and the media will now be able to see high definition aerial views of anywhere on earth to observe events as they happen.

Satellite view of my house