Planet and BASF Digital Farming Expand Strategic Partnership to Enhance Smart Farming Solutions From Space
21 Maggio 2024 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, today announced it has expanded its existing
commercial partnership with BASF Digital Farming GmbH. Through this
strategic partnership, BASF Digital Farming is growing its use of
Planet satellite data products to power its advanced digital
farming products and services from its xarvio® Digital
Farming Solutions brand.
Planet owns and operates the world’s largest constellation of
Earth observation imaging satellites, providing near-daily data and
insights regarding global patterns of environmental and industrial
change. With demand for food supply steadily increasing, companies
are looking to move towards more sustainable and efficient farming
solutions. Working with Planet, BASF has embraced the digital
agriculture revolution, building new solutions and services to
increase sustainability, both economically and environmentally, for
growers.
“We are in a critical time for sustainable agriculture.
High-cadence satellite data can provide revolutionary solutions to
advance precision farming, yield estimation, and seed selection,”
said Will Marshall, Planet Co-founder and CEO. “By expanding this
strategic partnership with BASF, a global leader in the digital
farming industry, we look forward to powering novel and effective
tools to enable growers to get the best crop yields in the most
sustainable and efficient ways.”
Through this partnership, BASF is expanding its use of Planet’s
Crop Biomass Planetary Variable product, a cloud-free,
analysis-ready data feed, combining radar and optical signals to
help agronomists and farmers better understand the status of their
fields, enabling more efficient and targeted use of crop inputs to
optimize production. BASF is also increasing its use of Planet’s
monitoring data product, PlanetScope, which provides near-daily
imagery of all agricultural fields around the world at 3.5 m
resolution, complementing the insights from Crop Biomass by
providing high-cadence imagery for small fields.
The combination of Planet’s two data sources provides the
highest level of operational reliability for BASF Digital Farming’s
xarvio® FIELD MANAGER, an advanced crop optimization
platform that delivers independent, timely, field and sub-field
agronomic advice to optimize yield and profitability for more than
100,000 registered users worldwide. For BASF, global operational
reliability is critical, with swiftness and stability required to
support crop production on millions of hectares across multiple
continents daily.
“At BASF Digital Farming, our focus is on providing farmers and
advisors with innovative products and services from xarvio that
make crop production more efficient, profitable, and sustainable.
Using Planet’s satellite data and Planetary Variable products we
can continue to deliver measurable benefits, and through the
expanded partnership we can scale that impact,” said Dr. Thomas
Schilling, Managing Director and Global Head of Platform
Engineering, BASF Digital Farming.
BASF leverages Planet’s satellite data and services to also
provide insights and recommendations during the growing season
including variable rate seeding, variable rate fertilizer, and
variable rate fungicide use for a range of crops including wheat,
soy, corn, cotton, and rice. Analytics derived from Planet’s
near-daily imagery have enabled BASF to support growers to sustain
expected yields, while making more efficient use of crop protection
products since 2020.
To learn more about how Planet data powers agricultural
solutions, visit Planet’s Agriculture Industry page.
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. Planet provides mission-critical data,
advanced insights, and software solutions to over 1,000 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
follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter).
About xarvio® Digital Farming Solutions – a brand by BASF
Digital Farming GmbH
xarvio® Digital Farming Solutions is at the forefront of
the digital transformation of agriculture, optimizing crop
production. Its products, xarvio® FIELD MANAGER and
xarvio® HEALTHY FIELDS, use an advanced crop modelling
platform to provide independent, timely and field-specific
agronomic advice. xarvio’s proven technology consistently delivers
measurable benefits for farmers, helping them to produce crops more
efficiently, sustainably, and profitably. More than 100,000 farmers
and consultants across seven countries worldwide have signed-up for
xarvio® FIELD MANAGER, setting-up a field area greater than
19 million hectares. For more information, please visit
www.xarvio.com or any of our social media channels.
View source
version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240521138032/en/
Planet Press Lauren Neville comms@planet.com
Planet Investor Relations Chris Genualdi, Cleo Palmer-Poroner
ir@planet.com
Grafico Azioni Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL)
Storico
Da Ott 2024 a Nov 2024
Grafico Azioni Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL)
Storico
Da Nov 2023 a Nov 2024