Former US space agency scientist and executive Brian Killough has joined EY’s fledgling satellite image processing business to help promote its use by clients in Australia and around the world.
Dr Killough worked at NASA for more than 35 years, and said there was a growing volume of free and premium satellite data that could be analysed for business purposes at a much lower cost than in the past.
Advances in satellite technology means that lower-quality images of up to a 10-metre resolution are now available for free, while more detailed, cutting-edge 30-centimetre resolution images cost about $30 a square kilometre, Dr Killough said.“So we’re good enough now ... to tell you exactly what the land classification is you’re looking at,” he said. “I can tell you what is a tree, what is a shrub. What kind of trees? What kind of shrubs? So we can track land classification and land change.
“We probably have a pipeline [of potential work] in the order of $30 to $40 million of opportunities that we see out there. But in terms of the core delivery, the clients we have worked with over the last year continue to extend their journey with us,” Mr Jones said.The senior EY partner would not say which branch of EY the business would end up in if the firm goes ahead with a plan to.
“If you’re monitoring things like agriculture, assessing climate resilience over an entire state, you can use the first layer from the public data, you then take what you know from the free layer to drill down to this even more highly granular data to pull the insights out of that,” Dr White said.
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