Planet unveils satellite imagery online tool

Planet, the San Francisco startup that began building a constellation five years ago to offer frequently updated Earth imagery, took a major step towards achieving that goal March 10 when it unveiled Planet Explorer Beta, an online geospatial data tool. “You can search an area of the world you care about and see changes,” Robbie Schingler, Planet co-founder and chief strategy officer, said March 9 at the Satellite 2017 conference. “This is extremely useful for us as citizens, as inhabitants of spaceship Earth, and also for businesses and governments.” Satellite imagery online today is typically years old, Will Marshall, Planet co-founder and chief executive said in a March 10 blog post on the company’s web site. More

(Source: SpaceNews - Mar 11)