We’ve spent the last 5 years building a satellite constellation to image the Earth daily. In concert, we’ve been working closely with GIS community and new technology players to explore the products and possibilities that could be built on top of this new data stream. One of these products we built ourselves; just last week we released Planet Explorer Beta—an online browser that lets you explore our Earth imagery through time. Right off the heels of Explorer Beta’s release, Team Planet attended SXSW to explore some of the cutting edge applications others are building with satellite imagery.

THE PANEL

We participated in a panel at SXSW alongside Matt Finer of the Amazon Conservation Association; Mark Johnson, CEO of Descartes Labs; and Sue Gordon, Deputy Director of the NGA. The panel was a pretty comprehensive look at the history and future of Earth-observation satellites, as well as an in-depth look at end users in the commercial, government and nonprofit sectors. You can watch the entire panel here.

The Party

Later that night, Planet hosted a party on 6th Street, where we featured recent work from Descartes Labs, Farmshots, Orbital Insight, and the Amazon Conservation Association using our data. We delivered live demos of our Planet Explorer Beta to several partygoers and showcased our new online Gallery with specific partner examples—we invite partners to submit an example, too.