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Anyone know what pricing is like? Skybox wouldn't return my numerous emails.

Their old pricing was something like $30/km2 with a minimum of 25km for Quickbird and their Standard resolutions.. so I believe the minimum order was ~$750. Not sure if that applies to their 30cm product too.

I had some success with EarthExplorer, finding a high-res 15cm orthoimagery survey for a waterway that our area of interest happened to be next to. A few GB of .tiff data later and we had terrific resolution satellite photos of our entire site.

PR Release about old pricing: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/digitalglobe-reduces...

Thank you! Some of us on /r/teslamotors were talking about putting some cash together to get gigafactory progress picks via satellite imaging.

You might want to check with one of the random aerial photo outfits nearby too, you can get usually find a random guy with a plane and a DSLR for ~$1k, and I'm sure he'd give a big discount if you committed to monthly pics.

Alternatively, from a random Google search, I found these guys (http://interiair.com/faqs/) who take drone pics near Reno. I'd imagine you could get a pretty good deal, although it would take more managing than a satellite option.

Sorry - just checking my understanding. You want to buy satellite images of the tesla factory to work out how long it will take them to get to your number in the purchase list?

That is my favourite Ice Station Zebra moment to date!

> You want to buy satellite images of the tesla factory to work out how long it will take them to get to your number in the purchase list?

No, satellite images of the gigafactory buildout out progress, because I'm/we're huge Tesla fans.

Ok. It's still amazing this is available to averge joes. Cheers

I believe the gigafactory refers to the giant new battery plant that Tesla is building.

If you really need to get a hold of someone my roommate works there. Since the google acquisition, I'm not sure they operate the same as they used to so a small contract might not be what they're looking for.

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