Comment by carderne
22 days ago
I did something similar once for a mining technique called “core logging”. It’s a single photo about 1000 pixels wide and several million “deep”: what the earth looks like for a few km down.
Existing solutions are all complicated and clunky, I put something together with S3 and bastardised CoGeoTIFF, instant view of any part of the image.
Wish I knew how to commercialise it…
Of course you could commercialize it!
You've already done the "building v1" part, and have started to do the "talking about it" part.
Next step is to write up how one could use it, how it is better than the alternatives, and put it up on a website.
I'm happy to chat about it if you like. My email is in my profile.
Once you have real users, they will pull the v2 out of you, and that will be what you'll sell.
What I've written above sounds like a business proposition, but I want to clarify that I'm just offering to share what I know for free :-)
I'm curious about the "core logging" photo. Where can I find one? Do you have an implementation of your solution? I would be curious to have a look at it.
I wasn't able to find any imagery online, and I don't have anything I can share publicly.
These are some of the existing commercial solutions (just found these on Google, can't remember which I was comparing my own work against):
- https://koregeosystems.com/digital-core-logging/
- https://mountsopris.com/wellcad/core-logging-software/
- https://www.geologicai.com/logging/
I don't know enough about the science side to take it any further on my own.
The "tech" part of what I started building is really quite simple: convert the images to Cloud-optimised GeoTIFF, then do range requests to S3 from the browser.
Might not be possible to find any, they’re expensive and niche. If you reach out (email in profile) I can show/share how it works (nothing currently public).
@carderne I think el_pa_b has an idea on how to commercialize it.
In all seriousness, how is it not useful for gold mining or phracking?