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Planet Releases Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Product for Time-Series Analysis and Machine Learning Models
Today, we’re thrilled to release Analysis-Ready PlanetScope (ARPS). ARPS harnesses a cutting-edge proprietary algorithm to create harmonized and spatially consistent near-daily stacks of images that enable time-series analysis and machine learning applications. ARPS normalizes data from PlanetScope’s daily 3m imagery…...
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From Floods to Fires: How Latin America is Tackling Disasters with Technology
Note: This piece can also be read in Spanish and Portuguese. Climate change is intensifying natural disasters in Central and South America, from raging forest fires to devastating floods and landslides. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),…
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Carbon Mapper Releases First Emissions Detections from the Tanager-1 Satellite
Tanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition, a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge…
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Agile EO Webinar: Data Storage and Streaming on Planet Insights Platform
Learn how to migrate your workflows to the cloud, create custom visualizations, and stream data with OGC services — watch our webinar to learn more. Planet has revolutionized the way geospatial professionals monitor changes on Earth. But as the volume…
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ZEP-RE and Planet Collaborate on Drought Insurance Program in Africa
Today, we announced an exciting new contract with ZEP-RE, a reinsurance company based in Nairobi, Kenya who will leverage our Basemaps products to enhance drought risk protection in the Horn of Africa (HOA)! ZEP-RE aims to utilize PlanetScope 3-5 meter resolution imagery through our analysis-ready, Surface Reflectance Basemaps products. Using pre-processed, Basemaps, […]
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Record Number of Breakthroughs in Earth Observation Science with Planet Data Presented at AGU 2022
December in the U.S. brings chilly temperatures and falling snow—and every year, also brings together the world’s largest convening of geoscientists. This year, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will take place in Chicago, and we’re ecstatic to see a record number of presentations are on the schedule using Planet data! […]
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Agile Aerospace Innovation: Leveraging synthetic data in satellite data product development
The use of synthetic data to facilitate machine learning development has been growing over the past few years. It is used by many major technology companies to do things as varied as build guidance for autonomous vehicles, develop insights for the financial sector, and extend and enhance healthcare applications. Synthetic data is […]
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NASA Harvest: Larger wheat harvest in Ukraine than expected
Analysts at NASA Harvest have been tracking the impact to agriculture in Ukraine since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and their latest study (re-posted in full from NASA Earth Observatory below) shows that farmers have harvested 26.6 million tons of wheat in 2022 – several million tons higher than expected in […]
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Data Program Continues to Use High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Help Fight Deforestation and Combat Climate Change
The NICFI Satellite Data Program continues to serve a diverse community of users that are putting high-resolution satellite imagery to work in helping fight deforestation and combat climate change. This quarter, we conducted our third user survey of Level 1 users. We received over 400 responses from users, detailing their feedback, user […]
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