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Bill Greer
@billfgreer.bsky.social
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Building a dedicated satellite for humanitarian aid and disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery. Open data, GIS, Remote Sensing, and creating the best possible future.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · 16d
@commonspace.bsky.social Just won the Kluz Prize for Peace Tech! www.kluzprize.org/updates/from...

We're humbled and completely stoked to have won this prize, which validates the need for the data, the mission we've set up to accomplish, but also highlights the massive challenges ahead! Lets Go!
Kluz Prize for PeaceTech
Unlocking the Power of PeaceTech
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Aug 21
I was on a podcast talking about Common Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQof...

I can't stand listening to myself speak, so let me know if i was any good.
Earth Observed | Episode 1: Bill Greer | How Nonprofit Satellites Could Change Everything
YouTube video by The Leadership Lab
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Common Space @commonspace.bsky.social · Aug 15
Posting for reach because I dont know how the Blue Sky Algorithm works: The Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...

It's about time that the space race included missions that actually help the people.
#Remotesensing #CivilSociety #humanitarian #GIS
A Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: At what point does inaction become unconscionable?
What does it say about our world when we spend over $54 billion a year on defense and intelligence satellites to spy on each other - yet cannot dedicate even one satellite to saving lives? We take pic...
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Aug 15
Making the moral case for a humanitarian satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...

#remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good
A Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: At what point does inaction become unconscionable?
What does it say about our world when we spend over $54 billion a year on defense and intelligence satellites to spy on each other - yet cannot dedicate even one satellite to saving lives? We take pic...
www.linkedin.com
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · May 19
Hi @bsky.app, At @commonspace.bsky.social we’re building a hi-res satellite for humanitarian aid & disaster response. If you use satellite imagery for good, help us validate the need by taking our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Sat4Good #HumanitarianTech #geospatial #remotesensing
A satellite for the people // demand assessment
Welcome! We're with Common Space, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing an independent, people-focused satellite mission. Read more about our thinking here > www.commonspace.world Thanks for taking the ...
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Apr 10
Went to Yemen, it was nice #socotra
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 16
Hell Yea! You're going to be amazing!
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Helen Mask 🔜 Seattle oddities🔜Pdx oddities 🔜kumoricon @hemask.bsky.social · Mar 15
Life is about to make a big change for me. I will be leaving my full time graphic design job (that I have worked in for the past 14 years) in early April to vend and freelance full time. I am scared, but really desperate to make art. I love drawing.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 11
Arrrrrrrr you feeling better? 🏴‍☠️

Seriously though, heal up quick!
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 10
And like a silly goose i forgot to link to the article!
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse
Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 10
Common Space (@commonspace.bsky.social ) is trying to create a new, consistent and reliable data stream (Satellite Imagery) to support and create a new baseline for humanitarian action. This article by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social calls out exactly why that mission is so important. Time to step up!
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 7
Unclear if Maxar will be able to sell the imagery to Ukraine outside of the GEGD contract, but it would get complicated. Where should Ukraine get data now?
Airbus - VHR data from 🇫🇷
Wyvern Space - 🇨🇦 Hyper spectral
MDA - 🇨🇦 SAR
SkyWatch - 🇨🇦 Imagery platform
ICEYE - 🇫🇮 SAR
Who did I miss?
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 7
ESA satellites can be used, but they are 10meter resolution as compared to Maxars 30cm Resolution... so very different use cases. If you want operational data you are generally going to need high resolution, higher revisit, and lower latency.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 7
We’re making it happen… but the need and timing seems to be accelerating, EO data is an incredible value, and the barriers to entry have been lowering for a while now. The time is now!
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 7
3/ Please share your thoughts here! And if you're interested in how you can help, please read our concept notes on building a dedicated Humanitarian Satellite Constellation here: www.commonspace.world/_files/ugd/2...
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 7
2/ The commercial market cannot be expected to act independently of its primary defense and intelligence customers. As a result, humanitarian organizations and independent actors cannot rely on the current systems, even when we know this data has the power to save lives.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 7
One of the reasons we started Common Space was to make high-resolution optical data open & accessible for humanitarian aid. Right now, the commercial imagery market is dominated by defense & intelligence—which means access is limited, even when lives are at stake.
kyivindependent.com/maxar-techno...
Maxar Technologies reportedly restricts Ukraine's access to satellite imagery
Kyiv has relied on high-resolution satellite images for defense and strategic planning, tracking Russian troop movements, assessing battlefield conditions, and monitoring Russian infrastructure damage...
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 5
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📍 Boulder, CO | Sept 24-26
🎟️ Register now: satcamp.xyz
Let’s shape the future of geospatial together! 🌍🔥 #SatCamp2025
SatCamp 2025
SatCamp is a conference unlike anything you have ever attended. September 24-26, 2025. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Feb 27
I dont normally re-read books, but just re-read these:
The Death of Expertise by @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The End is Just the Beginning by @peterzeihan.bsky.social
Winner Takes All by @anandwrites.bsky.social
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty

All Bangers, all relevant, and recommended.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Feb 24
Things that know where they are can act on their location. Spatially enabled things have increased financial and functional utility. So far that has been people, with the hope that AI will get there soon, with #geoAI. Is spatial reasoning necessary for General AI?
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Feb 16
Talking about a vibrant Denver, while also returning that one block on Larimer back to car traffic. god forbid we have a part of town where we can actually walk around.
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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Feb 10
This is me… come hang out at the North51 Conference (www.n51.ca) in Canmore, Canada 🇨🇦 This conference has been one of the most consistently thought-provoking conferences in the geospatial schedule. Let me know if you’ll be there as well! @north51conference.bsky.social
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Dr. Brianna R. Pagán @briannaritapagan.bsky.social · Jan 14
When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...
When our community burned where was the satellite information?
Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Jan 10
Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing More With Satellite Imagery
Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as mining activity and changes in vegetation.
www.bellingcat.com
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