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PLANET FEDERAL
What is Planet Federal?
Planet Labs Federal Inc. is the sales, business development, customer success, communications, and marketing subsidiary of Planet Labs Inc. created specifically to address the United States Federal Government market.
Planet Federal's Pillars for Integration of Commercial Programs and US Government Operations.
Capacity & Cadence
Resilient & Upgradeable
Non-Classified & Shareable
Trust & Transparency
Planet Value to the US Federal Government
- Global Situational Awareness
- Strategic Readiness
- Asset Monitoring
- Maritime Domain Awareness
National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Global Situational Awareness
CHALLENGE
Low resolution imagery platforms, provide wide area collection capabilities, but lacks the resolution high enough for quality analysis.
Traditional High resolution platforms, provide quality imagery, but lack the ability to collect lots of imagery at scale, efficiently.
SOLUTION
Planet’s Medium resolution platform, PlanetScope, provides a high quality compromise between the two ends of the satellite imagery spectrum.
On September 14, 2019, drones were used to attack the state-owned Saudi Aramco oil processing facilities at Abqaiq in eastern Saudi Arabia. PlanetScope imagery captured Smoke billowing from facility shortly after the attack.
RESULTS
- Unprecedented wide area capture and revisit rates
- Less than 24hr turnaround from capture to delivery
- High quality medium resolution imagery is an effective product and meets many needs.
Strategic Readiness
CHALLENGE
With traditional imagery collection platforms, it is difficult to discern a daily operations tempo for a given area, thus making it more difficult to identify change.
SOLUTION
The daily cadence of PlanetScope imagery allows analysts to monitor the patterns of life for a given area.
Engels Air Base, Russia, August 18th - 21st, 2018
RESULTS
- The daily counts of aircraft types can be tracked and monitored to identify important baseline numbers so if there is any deviation from the baseline it can be properly identified.
- PlanetScope imagery also provides valuable tipping indicators for higher resolution constellations like SkySat.
Asset Monitoring
CHALLENGE
Keeping up with the technical capabilities of nationstates can be extremely difficult, especially when they are actively trying to conceal hard to identify activities.
SOLUTION
Planet’s SkySat constellation has the ability to capture high-priority areas of interest at a sub-daily cadence.
Shortly after a Safir rocket suffered a catastrophic failure at Iran's Imam Khomeini Spaceport on August 29, 2019, a Planet SkySat captured smoke rising from the damaged launch pad.
RESULTS
- High temporal cadence increases the likelihood of successful capture as well as detecting subtle yet significant changes
- Less than 24hr turnaround from tasking to delivery is possible
- High quality medium resolution imagery is an effective product and meets many needs.
Maritime Domain Awareness
CHALLENGE
Lack of frequent monitoring of key strategic areas presents a challenge for intelligence collection and analysis.
SOLUTION
The combination of PlanetScope and SkySat imagery provides a spatio-temporal cadence that is unmatched in the industry. Using both constellations, Planet was able to detect the launch one of Russia’s newest and most secretive Special Mission Submarines.
A Planet SkySat collected this image of Russia’s K-329 Belgorod submarine shortly on April 28, 2019, a few days after its official launch.
RESULTS
- The multiple image collections per day confirmed the exact time the Belgorod was launched.
- High resolution SkySat Imagery allowed for PlanetScope to be used for daily Monitoring SkySat imagery counteracted government controlled media restrictions, allowing analysts to review key features of the submarine.
Planet Federal Training & Education On Demand Webinars
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Planet Federal Leadership Team
Rich Leshner
Executive VP, Operations
Washington, DC
Jen Marcus
US Government Strategic Engagements
St. Louis, MO
Tom Ingold
VP Post Sales Engineering & Customer Success
Washington, DC
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