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BASF and Planet: Revolutionizing Agriculture with Digital Innovation
As the global population rises and food demand increases, ensuring access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food is more critical than ever. For growers, embracing the digital agriculture revolution is essential to building infrastructure and tools that enhance sustainability, both…...
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Managing Risk in Colombia with High-Res Real-Time Satellite Monitoring
Note: This piece can also be read in Spanish and Portuguese. In Search of Sustainable Land Management Illegal deforestation, unsustainable land use, and climate change pose significant threats to Colombia's rich and diverse landscapes and the communities who depend on…
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Carbon Mapper data from the Tanager-1 satellite reveals methane and carbon dioxide super-emitter activity around the world
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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How Is AI Used in the Space Industry?
Planet joined The Mapscaping Podcast to discuss our mission, what our data enables organizations to do, and how AI can be leveraged to do it better. The Mapscaping Podcast, hosted by Daniel O'Donohue, is a great resource for anyone interested…
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36 Planet SuperDoves Successfully Launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket
Today we successfully launched 36 SuperDove satellites, our Flock 4y, to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket! Our team has established contact with all 36 SuperDoves and has kicked off our automated commissioning process. This marks Planet’s 32nd successful launch, totaling over 500 satellites launched since our founding. These satellites were […]
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Planet to Launch 36 SuperDove Satellites with SpaceX
We are excited to share that we plan to launch 36 of our SuperDove satellites, Flock 4y, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than January 3, 2023 at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC). Flock 4y is planned to launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape […]
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At GeoSmart India 2022, Innovation and Integration are Seen as Essential to Growth
Unpack GeoSmart India 2022’s theme – #geospatialbydefault: empowering billions – and you’ll discover two things. One, the promise of geospatial and earth observation systems is enormous, and growing all the time. New technologies for satellite image resolution, sensing, data collection, and data management are continuously advancing, making the current moment an incredibly […]
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Verdi uses Planet data to help farmers save 7 million liters of water while improving crop quality and yield
Water scarcity is on the rise, and it is impacting crop yield around the world. In the US alone, over 378 million acres of farmland are currently under drought. And as climate change is accelerating, agricultural water scarcity is expected to intensify in over 80% of global croplands. Wasteful watering methods must […]
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From banks to bunds: how Africans are harnessing satellite data to financially derisk pastoral livelihoods
By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda Although Africa as a whole has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, no continent has been more affected by climate change-induced natural disasters like flooding and droughts. And since Africa is home to a third of the world’s natural resources and 70% of its population […]
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