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From Drones to PlanetScope, Mapping Meddlesome Roses

Image above: PlanetScope image of invasive rose study site along the coastline of Vainupea, Estonia taken August 28, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Many are captivated by what is arguably the world’s most romantic flower, the…...


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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…

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Planet, Microsoft, And Researchers Build New AI-Focused Resource For Environmental Reporting

Authors: Seamus Lombardo and Amy Rosenthal As a Public Benefit Corporation, we think a lot about sustainability and the solutions our customers, partners, and the world need. These solutions require an up-to-date, close-up view of the Earth, as well as…

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Want to learn more about how Planet's data is being leveraged by scientists around the world? Explore our recent Planet Science Applications e-books: 2020- 2021 Planet Science Applications E-book 2019 Planet Science Applications E-book

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Ice-dam Failures Revealed with PlanetScope Data

Image above: PlanetScope image of ice-dam study site in Jokulsarlon, Iceland taken March 2, 2023. © 2023, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In icy environments, mountain lakes can be dammed not by just rock, but by long standing ice formations. But with the ongoing retreat of glaciers and icecaps around the […]

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Scientists Showcase Global Discoveries Using Planet Data At World’s Largest Geospatial Conference

This year, we are excited to have AGU 2023 back in our neighborhood! Returning to San Francisco for the first time in several years, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023 kicks off this week, running from December 11-15. We are thrilled to share that there are over 120 abstracts, talks, […]

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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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Understanding The Unseen: Art Of The Possible Storytellers Illuminate Narratives From The Ground

The Art of the Possible storytelling challenge began with the end in our minds. That is, to bring impactful change into communities, one Earth image at a time. We received 38 research proposals across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region, each with a unique perspective and different sets of challenges from various industries, […]

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Monitoring Mass Flowering Events from Space

Image above: White flowering tree crowns spot the dense green forest in Lambir Hills National Park in Borneo, Malaysia on May 5, 2019. © 2019, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. In the dense tropical forests of Southeast Asia, scientists are monitoring the phenomenon of “general flowering” which is the synchronous mass […]

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