The supply chain behind a modern remote sensing application is super straightforward. For example:
1. An app that predicts flood inundation requires hydrologists and remote sensing scientists who can design algorithms and QA processes to make confident predictions
1. An app that predicts flood inundation requires hydrologists and remote sensing scientists who can design algorithms and QA processes to make confident predictions
2. And those people rely on modern web developers and designers to encode their insights into an easy to use interface that connects with their customers' systems.
3. And those people rely on other software engineers at satellite imagery companies who produce/distribute the data
3. And those people rely on other software engineers at satellite imagery companies who produce/distribute the data
4. And those people rely on signals engineers who understand how the data should be formed and create the algorithms to process it
5. And those people rely on space operations engineers who control and coordinate the constellation to capture the data reliably
5. And those people rely on space operations engineers who control and coordinate the constellation to capture the data reliably
6. And those people rely on software engineers who encode the ground systems in software for doing that coordination (as well as automating it)
7. And those people rely on mechanical and electrical engineers who build the spacecraft to exactingly precise standards
7. And those people rely on mechanical and electrical engineers who build the spacecraft to exactingly precise standards
8. And those people rely on systems engineers who design and coordinate the many disparate technology elements necessary to produce a reliable, affordable instrument that will work in space
9. And those people rely on an equally complex supply chain of parts suppliers, launch providers, and other contractors who each understand their incredibly obscure and complex part of the system well, but little about anything else besides the immediate adjacencies
just that easy, just that simple
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