Dauria Geo is just completing new design specs for their Perseus satellite constellations. Perseus-O, a constellation of 8 satellites, will provide daily global coverage of all arable land at 22 meters resolution (meaning each pixel represents 22 meters on the ground). With the same spectral bands as Landsat this new imagery will be able to measure crop health and flooding. The Perseus-HD constellation of 20 satellites will provide daily images of all urban and arable land at 2.5 meters resolution -- showing roads, buildings, ships, and fields.

In addition to having their own satellites, Dauria Geo will make Landsat and MODIS open data sources accessible through their API. They have established partnerships with industry leaders like Deimos in Spain, EIAST in Dubai, and Eye Innovation in China to provide a variety of resolution, coverage, sensor, and freshness of imagery, offering a unique balance between resolution and timely revisit. This is super exciting for our team as we work to expand where we source imagery for NGOs to process in their pipelines.

The new technical specs mean Dauria Geo moves into the next build phase, and is on target to begin launching the Perseus constellation in 2015. We're collaborating with Dauria Geo now as they build out integration and visualization tools -- from antenna to API, that makes image acquisition, analysis, delivery, and integration easier for both NGOs and enterprise. Dauria Geo is building an API to empower developers to access fresh and historical imagery, compute needed data layers on the cloud, and harvest data in ready-to-use format. Their cloud platform can do heavy analysis and feed data directly into applications. By directly integrating with the Mapbox API, we can quickly deploy sophisticated and beautiful applications from agriculture to disaster response using the platforms that developers are already building on.

We'd love to see more satellite providers compete on ease of integrating their data. We'll be helping Dauria Geo to review their API to make it developer friendly and we will build open source tools on top Dauria's API. These tools will serve as open templates for integrating Dauria with tools like Mapbox to quickly build powerful, data-rich sites. This is really positive move for the industry and for users.