Joe Morrison
“Controversial industry figure” -@gridnews. VP of Commercial Experience @umbraspace 🛰 | satellite data for mapping 🗺, monitoring 📈, and 'mergencies 🚨
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A fun tradition - one of my colleagues is very busy and often one or two minutes late to zoom calls with potential customers/partners/recruits/etc. So I use the time to create a co...
SAR will be a bigger commercial industry than electrooptical in the future. I would say within a decade. Primarily because: 1. Free and open missions like Landsat and Sentinel wil...
I used to get angry when SAR providers would quote resolution in misleading ways (eg quoting just the azimuth resolution or just a heavily multi-looked resolution). But I know enou...
T-minus 30 seconds to liftoff! https://t.co/HBRvZ7CMXz
We’ve got a couple satellites hitching a ride on this rocket…I don’t think launch days ever really get old. There are some other interesting Earth Observation payloads on the man...
A little late to the party, but I thoroughly enjoyed this write up from @itsmoislam. It's short. Go read it! As in all of life, simply doing what you said you were gonna do is the...
Very interesting news - ENVI is one of the most advanced remote sensing software suites ever developed (the SARScape package is considered best-in-class). Not sure what this transi...
Spent an hour at Gate 14 just chillin. They called my name - “Passenger Joe Morrison, Joe Morrison, doors are closing for your flight to Denver. Please proceed to Gate 27.” I just...
A really cool role just opened up at Umbra - normally I'm 100% focused on recruiting software engineers, but this one is a bit different. It's on the Space Ops team (the group that...
It took me an embarrassingly long time to arrive at this framework for understanding tradeoffs in the satellite imagery industry. Once I started looking through the industry throug...
The current thing in AI is generative models, but I’m still way more interested in how automated recognition will transform different industries. There is *very* little content on...
Currently getting mad-dogged by the only other patient in this waiting room. https://t.co/QOZa8E8aAd