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analytics Blog Posts

NGA and Planet Sign Five-Year Research Agreement on Analytics

News

Both the private and public sectors are heavily investing in ways to transform geospatial data into analytic insights for the commercial and government sectors. Planet is a part of this effort, and is happy to announce it has signed a five-year cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency […]

Mission 1 Complete!

News

At Planet, we’ve been pursuing Mission 1: to image the entire Earth’s landmass every day. I couldn’t be more excited to announce that we have achieved our founding mission. Six years ago, our team started in a garage in Cupertino. Mission 1 was the north star: we needed to build the satellites […]

Explorer Labs: Experimentation in the Open

Tech

Planet is used to testing novel ways of deploying and managing an ever-growing fleet of satellites in space. Taking it further, we test in space—everything from full demo builds to small canary features. We can’t know what works for sure until it’s hurling well over 15,000 MPH dealing with sharp temperature changes […]

Explore and analyze Planet imagery with Harris ENVI

News

Whether you’re a farmer measuring crop performance or a crisis mapper assessing damage after a natural disaster, you need speedy and reliable remote sensing data preparation and analysis workflows that you can count on. Today, we are excited to announce that, with the integration of Planet data into the ENVI platform, Harris […]