Image above: PlanetScope image of glacial rock scouring on Devon Island, Canada, a research study site, taken August 28, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. So, how do scientists researching Mars get a sense of the climatic history of our next door neighbor? Well, they actually use a significant […]

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 […]

PlanetScope image above showing border between Colombia and Venezuela taken on January 31, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved.  Authorities across the Latin American region are working to strengthen intervention strategies against drug trafficking. However, there are significant challenges to tracking these illegal supply chains, including the monitoring of […]

Image above: Planet image of a livestock enclosure in Kenya also known as a boma taken February 7, 2020. © 2020, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. As the sun sets each night on the African rangelands, wild predators begin their hunt. If lucky, they find themselves an unsuspecting cow or pig […]

Image above: Planet image taken August 22, 2022 of the Merriespruit gold mine in South Africa — site of the historical 1994 tailings dam breach referenced for study’s predictive models. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Mine tailings dams are contained bodies of water mixed with waste products from mining […]

Image above: Planet image of Flores Islands in the Azores taken April 16, 2012. © 2012, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Peatlands are vital natural ecosystems that can support climate change mitigation globally. They are the world’s largest natural terrestrial carbon store, sequestering 0.37 gigatons of CO2 a year, and they […]

Above image: Planet image of study site in central Brazil taken March 26, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Through last year’s partnership between Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and Google, Planetscope Basemaps of global tropical forests are now accessible to Google Earth Engine users. With this […]

This interview originally appeared in the July 28th edition of Planet Snapshots.  Interview with Matt Finer For nearly the past decade, Matt Finer has been playing the world’s largest and highest-tech game of whac-a-mole — but with far greater stakes. He’s a Senior Research Specialist at Amazon Conservation and is the director of MAAP (Monitoring of the Amazon […]

Above image: PlanetScope image of Sargassum along the Miami beach shoreline taken May, 12, 2019. © 2019, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In recent years, Sargassum, a large brown macroalgae, has been reported to beach along coastal shorelines in large quantities. As these piles of beached seaweed begin to decompose, they can […]

Image above: Flood waters at Wadi al Hawasinah in Oman taken October 5, 2021. © 2021, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Historically, immense amounts of geospatial data have been used in the field of archaeological research to rapidly and remotely explore inaccessible archaeological sites. This Big Data helped generate robust archaeological […]