by Tara O'Shea on Jan 28, 2019

In partnership with Women in Data Science (WiDS), the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and Figure Eight, Planet is bringing its unique dataset to a competition that challenges participants to use data science to build awareness and solutions for tropical deforestation and palm oil production. The competition, launching today on Kaggle, comes […]

by Grant Cohen on Jan 25, 2019

The Planet Team is heading to DGI, the premier annual meeting for geospatial intelligence experts in Europe, to join 650+ industry leaders from around the world. At the meeting, attendees will discuss how to best respond to new policy developments and breakthroughs in technology. We’re looking forward to collaborating with commercial and […]

by Will Marshall on Jan 21, 2019

Planet closed out 2018 in a big way, with 3 launches carrying 33 satellites in under 30 days — setting new records as we did. But that’s not all! As we start the new year, I wanted to share a recap of seven major achievements: Queryable Earth. We formally announced our vision […]

by Claire Bentley on Jan 3, 2019

The Copernicus Masters is an international competition that awards prizes to developers who leverage Earth observation data to solve important commercial and social problems. As first time participants this year, we issued a call for submissions to the Planet Daily Change Challenge: a search for novel applications of Planet’s daily, global imaging […]

by Mike Safyan on Dec 27, 2018

An exciting end to another strong year for Planet! Yesterday, 12 next-generation Dove satellites – Flock 3k – were successfully launched on a Soyuz rocket out of Vostochny Cosmodrome and deployed into an approximately 500 km Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). We’re thrilled to announce that our Mission Control Team has made contact […]