2019 Dispatch: Planet's Year-in-Review
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StoriesThe year 2019 was an astronomical time for Planet. Twenty SuperDove satellites entered orbit aboard the ISRO’s PSLV-C45 in the spring and 12 more hitched a ride into space in winter, with the latter marking Planet’s 25th successful launch. Since the company’s inception a decade ago, we have launched over 400 satellites into space—and have now imaged all the Earth’s land an average of over 1,000 times! But perhaps most exciting was our more terrestrial news activities over the past year. - We hosted Explore 19, our first-ever global user conference, which had an attendance of over 400 customers, both current and prospective. (Watch the Explore 19 video recap here.) At the event, we made a series of exciting announcements:
- Next-Generation PlanetScope imagery with eight spectral bands
- 50 cm imagery, produced by lowering our SkySat satellites
- Planet Analytics Feeds for Road Detection, Building Detection and Vessel Detection
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- Satellites for Climate Action, a new initiative that will use satellite data to inform and accelerate climate protection. The initiative spawned from a partnership between Planet, California Governor Gavin Newsom and United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Action Michael R. Bloomberg.
- The California Forest Observatory (CFO), a platform that will be designed to dynamically map forest structure and fuel loads down to the tree level and provide a clearer picture of wildfire risk. The CFO comes from a partnership with the Moore Foundation, Salo Sciences and Vibrant Planet.
- A partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to help track deforestation
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