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Carbon Mapper Releases First Emissions Detections from the Tanager-1 Satellite

by Planet Labs PBC on Oct 10, 2024

Tanager-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…...

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NEO and Planet: Revolutionizing Agricultural Monitoring in the EU

by Shelby Parks on Oct 3, 2024

The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a critical framework designed to support and improve the agricultural sector across member states. However, the CAP's requirements pose significant challenges, particularly in the area of remote sensing-based Area Monitoring Systems (AMS).…

News

Planet’s Project Centinela: Monitoring Vulnerable Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Action

by Amy Rosenthal on Oct 1, 2024

The name “Centinela” is storied in the tropical botany world. Surveyed by legendary botanist Al Gentry and others in the 1970s, the tiny Ecuadorian mountain range was discovered to harbor dozens of species new to science—roughly every third species they…

Technology

Agile EO Webinar: Data Storage and Streaming on Planet Insights Platform

by Mariah Hauck on Oct 4, 2024

Learn how to migrate your workflows to the cloud, create custom visualizations, and stream data with OGC services — watch our webinar to learn more. Planet has revolutionized the way geospatial professionals monitor changes on Earth. But as the volume…

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Planet Superpowers: Looking Closer

by Jonathan Americo on Apr 18, 2024

Look at a place, event, or object in much closer detail than previously captured.

tech

Planet’s modular, extensible smallsat platform enables new missions including Pelican and Tanager

by Kiruthika Devaraj on Apr 18, 2024

In November 2023, Planet launched Pelican-1, the first technology demonstration small satellite of our next-generation, high-resolution Pelican constellation that is expected to be deployed over the next few years. The primary mission of Pelican-1 is to validate the hardware and software aspects of Planet’s small satellite bus platform, which we call the […]