Planet and Taylor Geospatial Institute Extend Contract to Provide Data and Solutions to Consortium through 2026
25 Luglio 2024 - 3:07PM
Business Wire
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, today announced that it has extended its
contract to provide data to the Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI)
into 2026. TGI, a rising geospatial research consortium, represents
Planet’s largest ever direct university engagement. Under the
multi-year contract, TGI can leverage various industry-leading
products from Planet, including its flagship PlanetScope data,
robust data archive, high-resolution SkySat data, and various
Planetary Variable analytic products.
Founded in 2022, TGI is a first-of-its-kind entity in the
geospatial ecosystem – designed to fuel research, collaboration,
and impact. Bringing together a consortium of eight leading
universities and research centers, TGI aims to catalyze
collaboration across its consortium, to connect partners in the
broader geospatial ecosystem, and to align distinctive strengths,
collective expertise, and shared resources to generate innovative
research and solutions.
Access to Planet's data helps TGI researchers explore issues
surrounding national security and global food security, as well as
advance core geospatial science, computation, and artificial
intelligence initiatives. Additionally, Planet data contributes to
TGI's mission to train the next generation of the geospatial
workforce.
“Planet is proud to continue serving the Taylor Geospatial
Institute with its powerful dataset, enabling industry leaders to
accelerate critical research into a wide variety of research areas
from climate change to human-environment impacts,” said Will
Marshall, CEO and co-founder of Planet. “Through this partnership,
these world-class institutions can leverage cutting-edge
technologies and Earth observation analytics to help advance our
understanding of our planet.”
“Planet was TGI's first commercial data partner and their data
has paved the way to fueling the work of our researchers across the
consortium, from research on arctic tundra ecosystem dynamics to
remote sensing studies of soybean crop quality and yield,” said
Nadine Alameh, Ph.D., executive director of TGI. “I'm excited about
extending this partnership as it's critical for our recently
launched strategic initiatives on global food security and GeoAI;
and our commitment to accelerating the commercialization of mature
research results in partnership with industry.”
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
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