diff --git a/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md b/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md index 26045c1..075df1f 100644 --- a/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md +++ b/content/docs/processes/field_imagery.md @@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ Commercial street-level imagery is often locked behind restrictive licenses, pro By self-hosting a **[Panoramax](https://panoramax.fr/)** instance, we provide a decentralized platform where field imagery is treated as a public utility: fully downloadable, API-accessible, and privacy-compliant. ---- - ## The Infrastructure Our field imagery pipeline is built on the **Panoramax** ecosystem, a federated open-source alternative to Google Street View that guarantees data permanence and open access. @@ -19,8 +17,6 @@ Our field imagery pipeline is built on the **Panoramax** ecosystem, a federated * **Storage**: High-performance object storage backend for hosting terabytes of 360° and flat field imagery. * **Federation**: Our instance connects to the global Panoramax federation, ensuring that while the data is hosted in Canada, it is discoverable worldwide through the global panoramax catalog. ---- - ## The Processing Pipeline We treat field imagery as a data engineering challenge, ensuring "time-to-insight" is minimized for downstream users. @@ -30,8 +26,6 @@ We treat field imagery as a data engineering challenge, ensuring "time-to-insigh 3. **Standardization**: Images are processed into systems-ready formats, making it ready for analysis. 4. **Metadata Extraction**: We extract and normalize/strip identifiying information (ex. EXIF and GPS telemetry), indexing it into a **[FAIR Catalog](https://stac-utils.github.io/stac-geoparquet/latest/spec/stac-geoparquet-spec/)**. ---- - ## Data Products Unlike commercial platforms that only offer a "view" of the data, we provide the **data itself**.