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''“The tides are changing on greenhouse-gas emissions, deforestation, and agricultural land use,” he told me. Planet Labs might attain its goal at the right time to help. With its all-imagery-everywhere service, the company could initiate or assist with “a global measuring and verification system for carbon.”''
''“The tides are changing on greenhouse-gas emissions, deforestation, and agricultural land use,” he told me. Planet Labs might attain its goal at the right time to help. With its all-imagery-everywhere service, the company could initiate or assist with “a global measuring and verification system for carbon.”''


''By combining images of noticeable economic activity—and all major land change—such a program could be a “definitive, factual, unbiased account of the world’s carbon system.” Its database could then help arbitrate an international cap-and-trade scheme or another global carbon-pricing system.''
''By combining images of noticeable economic activity — and all major land change — such a program could be a “definitive, factual, unbiased account of the world’s carbon system.” Its database could then help arbitrate an international cap-and-trade scheme or another global carbon-pricing system.''


''Planet Labs will soon have an image of every spot on the globe, updated at least once every day. This roughly 50-trillion-pixel portrait of Earth, daily made anew, will serve as both an incredibly valuable data resource for humanity and as Planet Labs’ flagship product.''
''Planet Labs will soon have an image of every spot on the globe, updated at least once every day. This roughly 50-trillion-pixel portrait of Earth, daily made anew, will serve as both an incredibly valuable data resource for humanity and as Planet Labs’ flagship product.''

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Planet Labs @planet.com -- https://www.planet.com/

https://www.planet.com/pulse/ (PlanetLabs News)
https://youtu.be/_6TF7dVXOIM (Video)
Planet Labs is now just 'Planet... Announcement - June 12, 2016 -- https://www.planet.com/pulse/meet-our-new-brand/


A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/terra-bella-planet-labs/472734/

“The product is information processing—real-time, fact-based data,” says Robbie Schlinger, co-founder of Planet Labs.

“The tides are changing on greenhouse-gas emissions, deforestation, and agricultural land use,” he told me. Planet Labs might attain its goal at the right time to help. With its all-imagery-everywhere service, the company could initiate or assist with “a global measuring and verification system for carbon.”

By combining images of noticeable economic activity — and all major land change — such a program could be a “definitive, factual, unbiased account of the world’s carbon system.” Its database could then help arbitrate an international cap-and-trade scheme or another global carbon-pricing system.

Planet Labs will soon have an image of every spot on the globe, updated at least once every day. This roughly 50-trillion-pixel portrait of Earth, daily made anew, will serve as both an incredibly valuable data resource for humanity and as Planet Labs’ flagship product.


>For a rough estimate assuming each spot on earth is photographed exactly once per day: (50 trillion pixels) / (surface area of the earth (200 million square miles)) = 250000 pixels/sq. mi. Assuming all pixels are equal, each one represents a box 10.5 ft x 10.5 ft.


Planet Labs Two Doves March2015.png


Planet Labs and NanoRacks launch from the ISS Feb 2014.jpg

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