Image above: Planet image of a livestock enclosure in Kenya also known as a boma taken February 7, 2020. © 2020, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. As the sun sets each night on the African rangelands, wild predators begin their hunt. If lucky, they find themselves an unsuspecting cow or pig […]
Image above: Planet image taken August 22, 2022 of the Merriespruit gold mine in South Africa — site of the historical 1994 tailings dam breach referenced for study’s predictive models. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Mine tailings dams are contained bodies of water mixed with waste products from mining […]
Above image: Planet image of study site in central Brazil taken March 26, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Through last year’s partnership between Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and Google, Planetscope Basemaps of global tropical forests are now accessible to Google Earth Engine users. With this […]
Above image: PlanetScope image of Sargassum along the Miami beach shoreline taken May, 12, 2019. © 2019, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In recent years, Sargassum, a large brown macroalgae, has been reported to beach along coastal shorelines in large quantities. As these piles of beached seaweed begin to decompose, they can […]
Image above: Flood waters at Wadi al Hawasinah in Oman taken October 5, 2021. © 2021, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Historically, immense amounts of geospatial data have been used in the field of archaeological research to rapidly and remotely explore inaccessible archaeological sites. This Big Data helped generate robust archaeological […]
Image above: PlanetScope image of research study site of Hilo Bay, Hawai’i taken February 17, 2019. © 2019, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. The turbidity of water can be characterized by its relative cloudiness or haziness caused by light scattering through the water column. Often generated by loads of small particles […]
Image above: Planet image of Walnut Creek Watershed in North Carolina taken April 25, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. As more people move to cities, managers are having to think about ways to ensure urban sustainability. Water systems, in particular, can be dramatically impacted in the wake of […]
Image above: Planet image capturing cabbage fields in Yuangchang Township, Taiwan taken June 13, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Taiwan is facing a series of complexities – from a highly mountainous terrain and frequent typhoons to an aging farming population – that make the cost of agricultural operations […]
With more precise agricultural data, farmers and agronomists can project seasonal yield information with greater accuracy and within more rapid timeframes. These insights can help farmers make informed decisions on how to manage their crops throughout the growing season, and this data also helps policy makers and governments drive food security efforts. […]
Image above: PlanetScope monthly mosaic of Ethiopia with NDVI analysis taken October 2020. © 2020, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. For over thousands of years, swarms of locusts have periodically plagued agricultural lands, causing famine and economic turmoil across Africa and Western Asia. Individually, the desert locust is benign, but given […]
