Industrial Infrastructure, July 5, 2016

planet labs Blog Posts

Planet Appoints First Chief Customer Officer and New Head of Product, Prioritizing Customer Centricity and Product Innovation

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Our Planet leadership team continues to grow! I am proud to announce that Planet’s first Chief Customer Officer will be our own Mike Merit. In this newly-created role, he will lead the Customer Success Management, Technical Support, Professional Services and the Global Education Teams. Mike’s commitment to driving customer success and value in […]

Planet Appoints New CMO

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I’m excited to announce a promotion to Planet’s leadership team: After an external and internal search, Planet’s own Donna Prlich has been chosen as our new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Following two years as VP of Marketing for Strategy and Solutions, Donna has demonstrated exceptional leadership and enterprise marketing acumen. Her knowledge […]

Planet Data Helps Advance the Promise of Digital Agriculture and Enables Novel Water Dynamics Research

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Ensuring food security and protecting aquatic ecosystems are essential for a sustainable future on our Earth. With Planet’s high spatial and temporal resolution satellite imagery, scientists are conducting novel research to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and monitor the dynamics of coastal water flows. With near-daily PlanetScope imagery, analysts can evaluate crop lifecycles […]

PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

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Tropical forests are large and complex ecosystems that are a vital part of the solution to addressing the effects of climate change. Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global. Starting in 2007, Permian Global has worked to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide […]

Measuring War’s Effect on a Global Breadbasket

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Earth observation data can serve as a powerful tool for increasing peace and security because of the enhanced situational awareness it provides. That is why Planet provides imagery to the media, think tanks, and researchers like NASA Harvest, NASA’s Food Security and Agriculture Program, run out of the University of Maryland (UMD), […]

Tibetan Permafrost, Urban Forests, Lava Paths, and Rural Marketplaces; Accelerating Our Understanding of the Planet Through the Education and Research Program

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Through Planet’s Education and Research Program, researchers across the world are finding new ways of leveraging Planet’s satellite data to better understand how our societies and the world’s natural systems are intimately intertwined at every scale – from revealing the impacts of climate change on thawing permafrost to modeling how war impacts […]

Improving Climate Resilience with Satellite Data: A Conversation with US Government Leaders

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Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Robert Cardillo, Planet Federal’s Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board, was joined by Christine Urbanowicz, Senior Spatial Geospatial Data Scientist, USAID, Kathleen White, Program Director of Climate Change, DoD OSD ODASD […]

Charting Planet’s Second Decade

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Planet turns 10. At the start of our first decade, we set a very clear mission: to image the whole world every day, making change visible, accessible and actionable. Broadly, our goal was to use space to help life on earth. We had a simple theory of change: you can’t manage what […]

Satellites and Cows; Planet and Organic Valley Complete Pilot and Expand Collaboration Across Cooperative

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Download our Organic Valley case study here. We’re happy to announce that we have completed a successful pilot program with Organic Valley, a national organic food brand and independent cooperative of small family farms, to utilize satellite technology to efficiently measure pasture health on dairy farms. By using our near-daily satellite images, […]