Satellogic vs Drones

Emiliano Kargieman's company, Satellogic, is in the process of launching a network of as many as 300 interconnected satellites that are dedicated to high resolution images of any point on Earth desired. Imagine 300 satellites in 300 different positions constantly taking images of earth including your farm acreage. All the satellites are talking to one another so the end result is almost instantaneous information on crops growing anywhere on earth."What's the competitive advantage of Satellogic over drones? We do see that both drone technology and what we are doing will have applications for agriculture and we don't necessarily see them as competitors. We think it is complementary to what we are doing. With drones, you have issues around air space, you have issues with the autonomy of the aircraft, you have to collect them on the ground, you have to collect the data and that is a little bit of a hassle. In the end, the cost per acre of land is significant. Because of the scale of what we are doing, because of the fact that we put the satellites in space once and they will cover these areas very, very frequently, the hassle related to operating or receiving information, you can receive it directly on your phone or your iPad, there is a good trade-off. You might get better resolution with a drone because it is closer to the ground, but we think for agricultural applications where we can get over 4000 data points per acre is going to be good enough for most of the applications that you want to use it for and we can do that from space for very big areas with a much lower cost.