Learn English – the word for a policy taking effect

We also say that a satellite camera does sampling and scanning, so countable nouns would be samplings and scans.

P.S. The phrase OP uses, "taking a picture acts" [sic], is meant to be a generic placeholder, of course, but "picture" is vague and imprecise nonetheless. Lay folk tend to use the terms "picture" and "taking a picture" for a very wide array of activities, still photography, thermal scans, radar imaging, and so forth. Satellites could be doing any or all of those things.

But let's stipulate that OP is referring to using a camera with a high-resolution optical magnifying lens to capture visual detail. Even then we could use the terms "sampling" and "scanning". To sample means to "take a representative selection of something", and there is no requirement that the selection be a tiny amount, or that it be of a physical substance. A satellite-mounted camera could take snapshots at periodic intervals which is a kind of sampling, or it could take snapshot-after-snapshot in fairly rapid succession, thereby simulating a terrain "scan". Even a "moving picture" is simply a collection of snapshots.

Another way that sampling is used in satellite imaging is with respect to the granularity or resolution of the image. The distance between pixels might correspond to one meter to one centimeter. So the image itself is only a kind of sampling of the terrain's visual detail.

I suggest 'degrade', e.g.

"Developers very often degrade the software when their intention is to improve it."

"Software decay is a key concern for large, long-lived software projects. Systems degrade over time as design and implementation compromises and exceptions pile up."

An Empirical Study of Design Degradation: How Software Projects Get Worse over Time https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7321186

In fact there is a humorous/sarcastic term commonly used by software developers but I can't remember it! I suggest you ask on a specialist computing site.