Image above: PlanetScope image of rice paddies along the slopes of Mount Lawu, Indonesia taken September 17, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Along the sloping landscape of Mount Lawu in Central Java, Indonesia, farmers experience a wide variety of crop growth as a result of water availability. As […]
Image above: PlanetScope image of crop biomass estimation site in Washington County, Mississippi taken April 9, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In agricultural fields, cover crops are planted at certain times of the year to cover up the farming soil. These plants are not set to be harvested […]
Image above: PlanetScope image of manure spread over snow in Easton, Wisconsin taken February 7, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), also known as industrial-scale factory farms, raise large amounts of livestock in small confined spaces. As a consequence, these environments also generate a […]
Image above: PlanetScope image of rice fields in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia captured September 3, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Our world is faced with increasing pressures to feed a growing global population, and we are simultaneously challenged with climate change impacts and water scarcity. Staple food […]
Image above: Planet image capturing cabbage fields in Yuangchang Township, Taiwan taken June 13, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Taiwan is facing a series of complexities – from a highly mountainous terrain and frequent typhoons to an aging farming population – that make the cost of agricultural operations […]
With more precise agricultural data, farmers and agronomists can project seasonal yield information with greater accuracy and within more rapid timeframes. These insights can help farmers make informed decisions on how to manage their crops throughout the growing season, and this data also helps policy makers and governments drive food security efforts. […]
Image above: PlanetScope monthly mosaic of Ethiopia with NDVI analysis taken October 2020. © 2020, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. For over thousands of years, swarms of locusts have periodically plagued agricultural lands, causing famine and economic turmoil across Africa and Western Asia. Individually, the desert locust is benign, but given […]
Image above of rubber tree plantation taken March 8, 2022 near Danzhou, City, China. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Rubber trees are an important resource used for natural rubber and timber products globally, and rubber tree plantations can often be impacted by changing government policies and economic incentives. With […]
On-farm reservoirs play a critical role in crop irrigation. They store water during the wet season for subsequent use for crop irrigation during the dry season. In the U.S. alone, there are an estimated 2.6 million such reservoirs. However, storing this water has poorly understood impacts on downstream hydrology and ecosystems. The […]
