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The Tools to Move from ‘Do No Harm’ to ‘Nature-Positive’: Planet and Partners Release Report at COP16
Earlier this year, Planet, ERM, Salesforce, and NatureMetrics launched the NatureTech Alliance at the World Economic Forum in Davos to help companies harness advanced data and technology to tackle their most urgent nature challenges. This week at COP16, this Alliance…...
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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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A Comprehensive Guide for Broad Area Management Through Satellite Imagery
Learn how governments and organizations leverage broad area management to monitor change across vast geographies and timescales. Organizations across various sectors increasingly rely on real-time data and actionable insights to make informed decisions. Whether managing agricultural lands, monitoring natural resources,…
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Copernicus EMS Uses Planet Data for Emergency Response Mapping
We are excited to announce that the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, or Copernicus EMS, utilizes Planet data to help provide emergency response mapping services for a variety of disaster situations, ranging from geophysical and meteorological hazards to humanitarian and man-made crises. When events occur, authorized users can alert Copernicus EMS to an […]
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Planet Announces 50 cm SkySat Imagery, Tasking Dashboard and Up to 12x Revisit
Over the past year, Planet has seen increased demand for its SkySat imagery to fulfill customers’ needs for timely, accurate and frequent information across the decision cycle. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified this trend, as traditional surveying and inspection methods are not currently possible. To meet the present moment, and demonstrate our […]
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Planet’s New Rapid Revisit Platform to Capture Up to 12 Images Per Day
When Planet acquired the SkySat constellation from Google in 2017, we set to work redesigning the complex infrastructure needed to task, collect and deliver imagery. We gave customers an experience that is highly automated and responsive so they can worry about insights, not satellites. Today we are announcing a new rapid revisit […]
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How Satellite Data Can Help Create Smarter, Greener Cities
As announced earlier this year, Planet is once again partnering with Copernicus Masters, Europe’s leading innovation competition, to sponsor the See Change, Change the World challenge. The goal of the challenge is to find innovators interested in using Planet and Copernicus data to discover creative solutions to some of the world’s most […]
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Planet Data Helps Scientists Track the Impacts of Natural Disasters
Natural disasters pose a threat to life, infrastructure and natural resources in mountainous regions. From 2004–2017, there were nearly 5,500 landslides worldwide, resulting in the loss of nearly 60,000 human lives. In the U.S. alone, landslides cause $2–4 billion in damages annually. As a part of an effort to help us better […]
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