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PlanetScope Used to Monitor Illegal Trash Burning
Image above: Planet satellite image of Thilafushi landfill in the Maldives, one of the research study site locations, taken May 5, 2023. © 2023, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Across the world, countries are faced with the challenge of…...
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PlanetScope Used to Map Tree Species in Urban Areas
Image above: PlanetScope image of urban areas and green spaces in Zagreb, Croatia taken April 1, 2023. © 2023, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Many of us are familiar with that runny nose, itchy eye, and stuffy sinus sensation…
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Tracking Deforestation
This interview originally appeared in the July 28th edition of Planet Snapshots. Interview with Matt Finer For nearly the past decade, Matt Finer has been playing the world’s largest and highest-tech game of whac-a-mole — but with far greater stakes. He’s a…
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Satellite Data Revealing Why Dam Tailing Failures Occur
Image above: SkySat image of tailings dam failure in Jagersfontein, South Africa, captured September 12, 2022, the day after the failure. Global conversations around the safety of tailings dams – infrastructure where mining waste is meant to be contained – have been ongoing for the last few years. In 2019, the failing […]
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Monitoring How Baboons Impact Timber Commodities in South Africa
Image above: Commercial forests for timber commodity creation in Mpumalanga, South Africa taken January 12, 2023. © 2023, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In South Africa, commercial timber operations and native wildlife can sometimes come into conflict. Forests planted for commodity creation in the region are often homogeneous monocultures of exotic […]
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Detecting Amazon Forest Degradation
Image above: PlanetScope image of the Amazon rainforest in Peru taken June 5, 2023. © 2023, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Many are familiar with news stories and reports regarding deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. However, some may be surprised to see that it is estimated that forest degradation has actually […]
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Estimating Soil Moisture with PlanetScope for Agricultural Resilience in Indonesia
Image above: PlanetScope image of rice paddies along the slopes of Mount Lawu, Indonesia taken September 17, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Along the sloping landscape of Mount Lawu in Central Java, Indonesia, farmers experience a wide variety of crop growth as a result of water availability. As […]
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PlanetScope and Advance Machine Learning Techniques Enable Seagrass Mapping in New Zealand
Image above: PlanetScope image of seagrass habitats in Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand taken December 26, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. We often associate meadows with rolling country hills and charming picnics, but meadows also exist in the shallow waters along our global coastlines. And while these seagrass meadows […]
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