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Introducing Planet Insights Platform: Easier, Faster, and More Cost-Effective Insights
At Planet, we recently unveiled our new all-in-one platform for multidimensional Earth insights: Planet Insights Platform. We celebrated by inviting the global Planet community to a virtual event to explore how Earth data, analytics, and powerful tools come together in the platform to monitor and understand change.
At the event, Planet co-founder and CEO, Will Marshall, shared, “You can think of Planet Insights Platform as your central hub for a vast array of data and tools that can provide new capabilities, create new insights, and build innovative products. [It] is the all-in-one place where you can achieve multidimensional Earth insights.”
You can watch a recording of the event, which includes presentations and demos from Planet experts. Or, keep reading — this article provides an overview of Planet Insights Platform and how to get started.
What to Expect From the Planet Insights Platform: Easier, Faster, and More Cost-Effective Insights
During the virtual event, Troy Toman, Senior Vice President of Product and Software Engineering at Planet, shared, “We’ve unified our core offerings into a powerful set of APIs and tools that provide access to multiple data sets and powerful analytics. This breaks down the conventional barriers to leveraging the power of Earth observation data while laying the foundation for future cutting-edge capabilities that make it easier for our partners to build solutions and our customers to get the answers they need.”
Today, the platform brings together new capabilities that dramatically improve customers’ capacity to analyze and orchestrate large volumes of Earth data, reduce upfront development and maintenance costs, and focus on differentiation. These updates include:
- A unified account experience across Planet and Sentinel Hub: By linking the two platforms, users will now be able to access cloud hosting and imagery analysis tools from Sentinel Hub through a single login.
- Enhanced Analysis-Ready PlanetScope data: Analysis-Ready PlanetScope uses proprietary AI to create harmonized, cloud-masked, and spatially consistent daily stacks of images, which enable time-series analysis and machine learning applications.
- Updated global Road and Building Change Detection: Our Road & Building Change Detection AI-based models point to where development is taking place across country-wide areas, on a weekly basis. This can help users clearly understand how and where the places they care most about are evolving.
- New and improved Planetary Variables: Field Boundaries trace the boundaries of agricultural parcels, giving insights into different crop types and growth throughout the season. Additionally, Crop Biomass Planetary Variable now integrates Planet’s daily, global PlanetScope data, offering a cloud-free, analysis-ready data product for monitoring agricultural fields.
- Time series and statistical analysis: Within the Planet Insights Platform, users can efficiently translate imagery into formats best suited for advanced data science and machine learning models.
With Planet Insights, users can build insights and solutions, make decisions, and act faster. Planet customer Valentin Louis, of the UK Rural Payments Agency, shared, “We needed fast and quick access to satellite data that helped reduce the time spent on downloading and pre-processing. That’s where Planet Insights Platform comes in. It helped us quickly distribute data and insights across our agency by integrating seamlessly in our current software ecosystem.” You can hear even more from Valentin in this spotlight video.
Monitor. Identify. Analyze: A Platform for All Users
We believe that what truly sets Planet Insights Platform apart is its accessibility and ease of use. Whether you are new to Planet or an advanced user, our goal is that you can easily access all of our products and derive meaningful insights from the data.
A few highlights:
- Data archive: Planet Insights Platform has a 7+ year archive of near-daily data. This dataset can help users understand unforeseen events or establish baselines of activity and is a fundamental part of our unique broad area management offering.
- Access for universities and social impact organizations: Education and Research users can access the Planet Insights Platform for free! First, apply to our Basic Education & Research Program. Once you have an account, you can learn how to get started with Planet Insights Platform.
- Easy navigation for previous users of Sentinel Hub: Planet Insights carries over a similar user experience as EO Browser in Sentinel Hub – the login is now unified. By consolidating the datasets and tools into one Platform, customers no longer have to spend time managing multiple systems.
Whether you are new to Planet or an advanced user, our goal is that you will be able to navigate the platform easily and derive meaningful insights from the data. We provide you with a wide range of enterprise support and services, including training and online resources to maximize the value of the platform.
Get Started With Planet Insights
If you’re new to Planet, you can learn more about the Planet Insights Platform by watching the virtual event on-demand or by exploring the Planet Insights Platform homepage. When you’re ready, reach out to begin your journey with Planet.
Already a Planet customer? Get started with Planet Insights Platform or join the Sentinel Hub forum on Planet Community to connect, ask questions, view product announcements, and learn more.
Author: Madeline Dahm
Author bio: With a background in science writing, Madeline creates multimedia content to showcase the value of Planet data for a range of applications and use cases.
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