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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 enables identification of livestock enclosures in Kenya to support research in soil health and greenhouse gas emissions
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 […]
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Planet Data Enables Scientists to Build Predictive Models of the Impacts of Mine Tailings Dam Breaches
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 […]
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Scientists Analyze Natural Peatland with Planet Data, Increasing Insights For Climate Change Mitigation
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 […]
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PlanetScope, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 Data Integration for Object-Based Land Cover Classification of Tropical Forests in Google Earth Engine
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 […]
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Tracking Deforestation
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 […]
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