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From Drones to PlanetScope, Mapping Meddlesome Roses
Image above: PlanetScope image of invasive rose study site along the coastline of Vainupea, Estonia taken August 28, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Many are captivated by what is arguably the world’s most romantic flower, the…...
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Monitoring How Baboons Impact Timber Commodities in South Africa
Image above: Commercial forests for timber commodity creation in Mpumalanga, South Africa taken January 12, 2023. © 2023, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In South Africa, commercial timber operations and native wildlife can sometimes come into conflict. Forests planted…
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Planet, Microsoft, And Researchers Build New AI-Focused Resource For Environmental Reporting
Authors: Seamus Lombardo and Amy Rosenthal As a Public Benefit Corporation, we think a lot about sustainability and the solutions our customers, partners, and the world need. These solutions require an up-to-date, close-up view of the Earth, as well as…
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PlanetScope data leveraged to reconstruct the advance and retreat dynamics of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet
Image above: Planet image of ice sheet carvings set into the mountains of British Columbia, Canada taken July 30, 2020. © 2020, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. About 20,000 years ago, the world was experiencing the Last Glacial Maximum, the end of the Pleistocene epoch when ice sheets covered most of […]
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PlanetScope Enables Detailed Mapping of Lava and Ash Deposits of Indonesian Volcanoes
Above image: Planet image of the eruption of the Krakatau volcano in Indonesia taken May 2, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Monitoring active volcanoes from the ground can present a lot of challenges – especially when they are erupting. From lava flows, earthquakes, tsunamis, and ash plumes, active eruptions […]
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Researchers Use PlanetScope Data to Investigate Tidal Channel Networks of Salt Marshes and Mangroves
Above: PlanetScope image of salt marshes study site in Saeftinghe, Netherlands taken April 24, 2022. Coastal wetlands, including river deltas, estuaries, coastal lagoons and open coasts, consist of important ecosystems, like mangroves and salt marshes. These areas are home to vast amounts of biodiversity, and they support critical ecosystem services, protecting coastal […]
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Researchers Leverage Deep Learning Classification Models and PlanetScope Data to Facilitate SDG 11 Indicator Computation
Image above: Planet satellite image taken of Athens, Greece covered in snow on January 26, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly first declared the Sustainable Development Goals. These 17 interconnected global goals were set to be achieved by the year 2030 and […]
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Modelling Above Ground Biomass Using Sentinel 2 and PlanetScope Data in Dense Tropical Montane Forests of Tanzania
Governments and NGOs around the globe are looking at ways to effectively monitor and report on carbon sources and sinks in an effort to mitigate climate change. Large programs within these initiatives focus on the protection of forests and the measurement of forest biomass as a way to quantify the role of […]
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