The Earth Data Revolution Driving Transparency in Sustainability and Security
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Planet Labs operates 200 satellites that image the whole Earth every day, producing about four million images (≈35 TB) daily and an average archive of ~2,000 images per land point. Use cases include boosting crop yields across ~25% of land, rapid flood response, Ukraine open‑source intelligence and battlefield accountability, and stopping deforestation by detecting illegal logging roads before trees fall. The company bought Salo to translate canopy structure into carbon stocks, and it uses client reviews, an ethics committee, and AI analytics to scale access.
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- 0:00Earth Data Revolution intro
- 1:55Satellites transformed transparency
- 3:19Data explosion from imaging
- 6:51Democratizing satellite data
- 8:15Peace security and warfare impact
- 11:02Ethics and access to data
- 12:46Sustainability and climate accountability
- 15:57Democratizing data for small orgs
- 17:01AI versus misinformation
- 18:44Closing remarks
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