Planet Labs' open satellite feed

Avicebron

Refreshingly doesn't feel like AI. If someone asked me "what does software engineering look like", I would point to this.

ge96

This is cool, learned of two new file extensions: .tle and .parquet

smallerfish

I wish Planet had better pricing for nonprofits. I co-run a conservation nonprofit focused on deforestation in Latin America, and our affordable choices are between 2 year old Google Earth imagery, 10m resolution Nimbo imagery (ok, but not sufficiently detailed to be evidentiary), and Sentinel 1 SAR data, which is useful but very noisy. Planet quoted us something like $30k per year for a strip of coastline that represents something like 5% of the territory we're monitoring, so it's just not a viable option under their current pricing model.

ricardobeat

Are most of their currently operating satellites servicing Flock - the US surveillance company? Or is it just a naming accident?

CrzyLngPwd

Pictured with three of the worst russophobes and most rabid euro warmongers. Such a shame.

maelito

Also checkout https://nlnet.nl/project/Mapterhorn-imagery for planet high-def satellite PMtiles. Not yet released.

neets

Where people want to look on this earth is pretty relevent information for the intelligence community, same for "OSINT" databases where you can lookup usernames across social networks

jjwiseman

Mark Litwintschik's blog is one of the best engineering blogs on the internet. Always practical, with detailed write-ups that make it easy to reproduce workflows. Thanks, Mark.