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VIEW FROM ABOVE

A booming satellite industry is changing the way we do business down below.
Eye in the sky A satellite from Planet captured a fire burning through one of the circular crop fields in the Toshka area of Egypt last year.

Satellite companies are sending more cameras into orbit than ever before, providing an unprecedented near-real-time view of the world. Here are five sectors on the ground that are being transformed by data from the sky.

Agriculture

Analytics companies such as Orbital Insight use

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