Pelican-2 Is Equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson Platform and NASA CSP Satellite-to-Satellite Communications to Speed Data Delivery for Customers SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2024—Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily Earth data and insights, today announced that its…...
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As the global population rises and food demand increases, ensuring access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food is more critical than ever. For growers, embracing the digital agriculture revolution is essential to building infrastructure and tools that enhance sustainability, both…
CONTINUE READINGTanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition, a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge…
CONTINUE READINGLearn how Planet satellite imagery allows agencies to identify and track land use changes at scale. Governments worldwide face the daunting task of tracking land use changes, such as sprawling urban development, shifts in agricultural practices, and criminal misuse of…
CONTINUE READINGA groundbreaking and alarming report found that Earth’s land carbon sink absorbed almost no carbon last year. Consider that for a moment: the ecosystems that have buffered our excess emissions for decades may not continue to do so indefinitely. While a slowdown has long been anticipated as climate change disrupts ecosystem function, […]
CONTINUE READINGTanager-1 is made possible by the Carbon Mapper Coalition, a philanthropically-funded effort to develop and deploy satellites designed to detect and track methane and CO2 super-emitters at a level of granularity needed to support direct mitigation action. Tanager-1 combines Planet’s cutting-edge agile aerospace and smallsat bus technology with the state-of-the-art imaging spectrometer design […]
CONTINUE READINGBy Christopher Anderson, Amy Rosenthal, and Flávia de Souza Mendes. Today, Amazon Conservation released the first in a series of three Mapping the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) reports on forest carbon across the Amazon that leverages our Forest Carbon Diligence product. The reports reveal patterns of aboveground carbon dynamics, including where and […]
CONTINUE READINGWritten by Maya Nolles, Yoann Malbeteau & Jasper Dijkstra Heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense worldwide, with cities bearing the brunt of extreme temperatures. Urban areas, densely packed with heat-retaining concrete and limited green space, are highly vulnerable to these heatwaves through the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Tracking where and […]
CONTINUE READINGPlanet joined The Mapscaping Podcast to discuss our mission, what our data enables organizations to do, and how AI can be leveraged to do it better.
CONTINUE READINGLearn about real-world applications of Planetary Variables in resource management, environmental assessment, and disaster prevention.
CONTINUE READINGNote: This piece can also be read in Spanish and Portuguese. In Search of Sustainable Land Management Illegal deforestation, unsustainable land use, and climate change pose significant threats to Colombia’s rich and diverse landscapes and the communities who depend on them. Gustavo Marulanda Morales, Director of the Agustín Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), […]
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