Iceye synthetic aperture radar image of the Strait of Gibraltar. This is a portion of the wide-area Scan image Iceye captured. The original image shows a 10,000 square kilometer area. Credit: Iceye

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The good news for the Earth observation industry is that their capabilities to collect and analyze imagery are better than ever. The bad news for the industry is that many prospective customers don’t understand those capabilities.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...