NASA Extends CSDA Agreement with Planet
29 Settembre 2023 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, today announced that the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) has extended its Blanket Purchase
Agreement with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data
Acquisition (CSDA) Program with multiple orders totaling $18.5
million in funding through 2024. With the CSDA Program, approved
civilian federally funded researchers and federal civilian agency
employees can access Planet’s 50 petabyte archive of PlanetScope
imagery for scientific use and Earth science applications.
Since 2018, thousands of researchers have accessed Planet
satellite data through the CSDA Program for their studies on
climate change, biodiversity loss, disaster response, and more. By
enabling these users to see and understand change in unprecedented
detail, in both time and space, Planet’s tools have helped this
group make novel discoveries, encouraging more informed and
effective decision making, and ultimately better stewardship of our
planet.
“The Planet-NASA partnership is amazing: researchers sponsored
by NASA have deployed Planet’s data to better understand almost
every dimension of our Earth system, from tidal marshes in Georgia,
glacier calving faces in Greenland to rich rainforest biodiversity
of Borneo,” said Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO at Planet.
“Given the criticality of our planetary systems, I’m deeply proud
of our collaboration with this growing community, as its research
encourages better stewardship of our Earth.”
This partnership with NASA has been active for over five years
and supports scientific researchers in over 32 different U.S.
Federal Government agencies. Just this past year, at the Fall
American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting, the largest annual
gathering of geoscientists in the world, 41 presentations leveraged
Planet’s data through the CSDA program. From mapping snow-covered
areas in complex and forested terrains to producing detailed maps
following the devastating fires in Maui to aid in response efforts
- there is no shortage of ways that these researchers are finding
value in Planet’s daily scan, and leveraging this data to reveal
insights about some of the world’s most important ecosystems.
Access to Planet’s global satellite data is important to the
CSDA Program’s mission of identifying, evaluating, and acquiring
data from commercial sources that support NASA’s Earth science
research and application goals for societal benefit; and it is
proving critically important to the work done by thousands of
researchers throughout the United States.
“Accessing Planet data through NASA's CDSA program has
revolutionized our capacity to map coastal environments,” said
Victoria Hill of Old Dominion’s Department of Ocean, Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences. “We can now generate monthly maps of
submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the Chesapeake Bay, allowing
us to discern seasonal growth patterns, rather than merely annual
ones. We recently used Planet images to map SAV on the Susquehanna
flats, and this analysis revealed large seasonal fluctuations in
plant biomass, which cannot be captured by the current
airplane-based mapping. Planet data is unquestionably a
game-changer in our ability to monitor nearshore ecosystems.”
To learn about this program and apply, visit the NASA page on
Planet’s website.
About Planet Labs PBC
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. Planet provides mission-critical data,
advanced insights, and software solutions to over 900 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 listed on the New
York Stock Exchange as PL. To learn more visit www.planet.com and
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