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Platform for Buying Satellite Images
About the client
The customer is a Gulf-based AI-powered SpaceTech company. Their mission is to seamlessly integrate satellite communications, geospatial insights, and AI functionalities for clients all over the world.
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Business Context
The customer specializes in selling satellite imagery, leveraging their own satellite orbiting the plant. They capture high-resolution images and sell them for a variety of purposes encompassing environmental monitoring, agriculture, urban planning, etc. The customer operates in a highly specialized field, providing invaluable insights from space-based data to various industries.
Challenges
The customer faced the significant challenge of integrating with multiple satellite vendors, each using its own proprietary API. This required a sophisticated solution that could connect to and manage these versatile APIs seamlessly. Thus, the customer's eventual goal was to obtain an API-integrated platform for buying satellite images that could handle various satellite data sources while ensuring flexibility and efficiency in the ordering process.
Project overview
The project involved the development of a middleware solution that would aggregate satellite data from various vendors into a single API-integrated platform for buying satellite images. The front-end development team also worked on building the UI.
About the project
Technologies:
Docker, GitLab, MinIO (S3 analog)
Solution
Andersen’s team developed a robust microservice allowing users to search for satellite imagery based on location, time of year, cloud coverage, satellite angle, and resolution. Users can then place an order for the images they need, and the system automatically selects the appropriate vendor based on the order parameters. Each vendor’s API is integrated into the system using a middleware layer, enabling seamless interactions between the platform and the satellite vendors.
Additionally, our front-end team designed a user-friendly interface where users can access an interactive map, zoom in on areas of interest, and preview available imagery. Once a purchase is made, the image becomes the user’s property.
The project also involved creating a separate service to calculate costs based on the chosen parameters and vendor.
Project results
The solution works as a truly integrated platform for buying satellite images, where users can easily search for, order, and manage satellite images. The middleware handles the complexity of vendor integrations, enabling the platform to scale and adapt as new vendors are added. The system also ensures that pricing is transparent and calculated in real-time, providing users with a proper UX.
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