Planet Scales Education and Research Program
January 04 2023 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Increases Global Accessibility and Enhances
User Capabilities
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, today announced a new, scaled structure for
their Education and Research (E&R) Program, aiming to increase
global accessibility to their satellite data and services. Starting
today, the program offers a new packaging model with a tiered
global pricing system and high-resolution SkySat data, a first for
a university program in the satellite data industry.
Launched in 2017, Planet’s E&R Program is nearing its sixth
year of operation. The program was designed to provide
opportunities to students, researchers, and professors from
accredited universities to access the company's satellite data and
services for their unique research needs. As of this December,
researchers from more than 1,000 universities across more than 100
countries are accessing Planet’s data through the E&R program,
including Rutgers University and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in the United States, Utrecht University in the
Netherlands, University of Toronto in Canada, and Yamaguchi
University in Japan.
To continue this global momentum, Planet has upgraded this
program to operate with a three tiered pricing system. A university
campus will now be offered a package price based on the economic
context of their country. This change aims to create opportunities
for universities around the globe to obtain affordable satellite
data, thereby further increasing the diversity of research
generated by Planet’s unique satellite data and lending insights to
the world’s most pressing questions.
“Our goal is to get Planet’s data into the hands of as many
researchers and young scientists from around the world as we can.
We believe that this increased accessibility will stimulate novel
discoveries about our changing natural world and complex social
systems,” said Joe Mascaro, Director, Science Strategy and
Programs. “As the backbone of geospatial research, students and
academics demonstrate innovative analytical approaches for
industries around the world, and we are excited to see how this
upgraded program will open new doors.”
Additionally, the E&R Program is expanding Planet’s
satellite services to users, offering broad access to archive data
from their high-resolution SkySat constellation. This will be a
first-of-its-kind service for the program and enable researchers to
explore the world with high-resolution (50 cm) imagery, and review
data that was captured at the same location multiple times a day.
This enhanced offering will allow researchers to monitor daily
experiments with fine details and observe data on swiftly changing
events, such as volcanic eruptions.
To date, Planet’s Education and Research Program users have
demonstrated some of the most innovative use cases for Planet's
satellite data, and the sheer diversity of projects has showcased
the value of the program. For example, curious researchers
leveraged Planet satellite data to monitor thawing permafrost in
Tibet, map urban forests in the United States, model the impacts of
the war in Tigray on Ethiopian marketplaces, and simulate
potentially hazardous lava flows in Eritrea. Further projects have
ranged from monitoring urban air quality in India and kelp forests
in California to cultural heritage sites in Azerbaijan and rice
fields in Japan.
In the last year, the E&R Program has also seen an increase
in multi-university integrated research projects, including a
program focused on monitoring Canadian boreal forests and their
biodiversity through the University of Alberta, Yukon University,
and the University of Calgary. And in September, the E&R
Program announced a multi-year contract with Saint Louis University
in support of the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI), a leading
geospatial research collaborative in the midwestern United States
focused on agriculture and security.
Each day, researchers are advancing human knowledge by asking
daring scientific questions and exploring Planet’s datasets.
Planet’s data has now contributed to >2,500 academic
publications in 10 different languages since 2016. This number
includes users from their Education and Research Program, their
NICFI Satellite Data Program, their acquisition of VanderSat, and
Planet’s partnerships with NASA and DLR. In the last year alone,
approximately two papers were published per day using Planet data.
With this newly scaled Education and Research Program, Planet is
expecting these numbers to continue to grow and advance our
understanding of this world.
About Planet
Planet is a leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery
and geospatial solutions. Planet is driven by a mission to image
the world every day, and make change visible, accessible and
actionable. Founded in 2010 by three NASA scientists, Planet
designs, builds, and operates the largest Earth observation fleet
of imaging satellites, capturing over 30 TB of data per day. Planet
provides mission-critical data, advanced insights, and software
solutions to over 800 customers, comprising the world’s leading
agriculture, forestry, intelligence, education and finance
companies and government agencies, enabling users to simply and
effectively derive unique value from satellite imagery. Planet is a
public benefit corporation trading on the New York Stock Exchange
as PL. To learn more visit www.planet.com and follow us on
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or future education and research programs. Forward-looking
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