by Chandler Abraham on Sep 5, 2017

Last month I had the privilege of watching the North American total solar eclipse with some current and former Planet employees from my family’s home in Payette Idaho; which happened to be right in the path of totality. Don’t worry, that telescope had a solar filter! Image: Chandler Abraham</font size= “-1”>While Planeteers […]

by Rachel Holm on Sep 1, 2017

Planeteers from our Mosaicking, API, and Product teams flew to Boston to attend FOSS4G 2017, splitting up to attend as many talks as we could. We teamed up afterward for a quick chat about what talks stuck with us.  Here are our highlights:     Markus Mueller and Michael Weisman: An Update on […]

by Daniel Wolfe on Aug 28, 2017

The world’s ports have tons of stories to tell. They’re essential to healthy economies, facilitating the flow of goods, resources, and people around the globe. Whether used for trade or defense, we can learn a lot about industries and nation states by observing regular port activity over time.

by Ian Ritchey on Aug 22, 2017

Planet’s built the largest constellation of satellites in history along with a data processing pipeline and online platform that lets you manage and analyze that imagery at scale. We’ve seen a growing number of cutting-edge precision agriculture companies around the world incorporate our high-frequency satellite imagery into their own products and platforms. We’re […]

by Deven Desai on Aug 2, 2017

Planet is used to testing novel ways of deploying and managing an ever-growing fleet of satellites in space. Taking it further, we test in space—everything from full demo builds to small canary features. We can’t know what works for sure until it’s hurling well over 15,000 MPH dealing with sharp temperature changes […]