NASA Extends Contract with Planet Granting Access to Planet Data to over 300,000 Scientists
October 13 2022 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily data and
insights about Earth, today announced NASA has exercised an option
to extend its contract with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat
Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program through September 2023. Planet has
been providing data to NASA scientists and federally funded
researchers under this program since 2018 and the company looks
forward to continuing to help power this community’s research of
our changing Earth.
Today, researchers funded by U.S. Federal Civilian agencies and
the National Science Foundation, including their contractors and
grantees, have access to Planet data. That is, hundreds of
thousands of scientists can access this space-based data to gain a
deeper understanding of the effects of climate change, biodiversity
loss, changing ecosystems, disaster response and more. With
Planet’s global and high-frequency dataset powered by their fleet
of 200 satellites, these groups can work to develop potential
solutions to complex and ever-evolving sustainability
challenges.
“As our world experiences greater biodiversity loss and climate
change, it’s more critical than ever that we have the tools in
place to power action,” said Robbie Schingler, co-founder and CSO
at Planet. “We are eager to see how this group of NASA scientists
and federally funded researchers continue to leverage Planet’s data
to help us better understand our changing Earth system. Working
together, it is our hope that we can better monitor nature and
human-led change and avert our planetary emergency.”
In the last year alone, users under the CSDA Program downloaded
the equivalent of over five times the entire Earth’s landmass in
Planet data, generating a deep repository of information to be used
in their studies. From exploring the chronic effects on the world’s
food supply due to the war in Ukraine to monitoring harmful
sargassum inundation on Florida beaches, tracking walruses driven
to shore in Alaska due to climate change, and mapping the spatial
extent of the areas affected by wildfires, these researchers are
rethinking the possible when it comes to better understanding and
protecting Earth’s valuable ecosystems.
NASA established the CSDA Program to identify, evaluate, and
acquire data from commercial sources that support NASA's Earth
science research and application goals for societal benefit.
Supporting the CSDA program by empowering this community of
researchers and scientists to utilize Planet’s satellite data for
high impact science is core to the company’s mission of making
change visible, accessible and actionable. To learn more about this
program and apply, visit the NASA page on Planet’s website.
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
Twitter.
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