In a world crowded with providers and rife with fakes , tomorrow’s commercial satellite imagery market will be defined more by trust than access. In a world crowded with providers and rife with fakes, tomorrow’s commercial satellite imagery market will be defined more by trust than access. Deceptions like these ultimately harm all imagery providers by degrading trust in their products. As a result, commercial providers face collapsing trust from the public on one side and government restrictions on the other. The differentiator among imagery providers then becomes a competition of trust in process and product.