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The expansion of public satellite fleets has turned Earth observation into a true Big Data playground. What once required dedicated GIS servers can now be handled by cloud tools that pull fresh imagery continuously without breaking project budgets. This sudden abundance of open rasters completely changes how products get built. Having steady access to free satellite data for download and analysis allows engineering teams to test new ideas, train computer vision models, and scale geographic coverage fast, without paying a cent for raw image feeds.

Tier 2 SOC work picks up evidence gathering across consoles, containment decisions, sandbox detonation and verdicting, sweeping new indicators through historical data, and the case documentation and handoff that follow. Tier 1 work is linear enough to enumerate, so a playbook can list the steps. Tier 2 investigations branch, since each answer changes the next question, and no engineer can pre-write every path and that is why SOAR does not do well in Tier 2 even in teams where it works well at tier 1.