USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service to Use Planet Basemaps to Support their 2021 Growing Season Assessment
23 August 2021 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Planet Federal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Planet Labs Inc., a
leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has inked
a deal with the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)
National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) to integrate Planet
Basemaps into NASS’s robust data collection and analysis processes.
With Planet data, NASS will begin exploring higher spatial
granularity and timely assessments of the 2021 growing season.
Planet recently entered into a definitive merger agreement with dMY
Technology Group, Inc. IV (NYSE:DMYQ), a special purpose
acquisition company, to become a publicly-traded company.
Annually, NASS conducts hundreds of surveys and prepares reports
covering virtually every aspect of the U.S. agricultural sector.
Since 2007, NASS has used satellite data from missions such as
Landsat, Sentinel 2, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, and
Resourcesat-2 to operationally derive land cover products,
investigate crop progress and conditions, and produce crop
production statistics throughout the growing season. The addition
of Planet’s satellite data will further this work and also help
NASS evaluate enhanced disaster response observations and
assessments not possible from medium resolution optical
systems.
Research and development efforts are underway to explore using
Planet’s Basemaps to provide NASS with a spatial and temporal boost
that may support independent, high resolution state- and
county-level crop area yield assessments. Planet’s enhanced
satellite data can help determine if higher resolution
classifications improve statistical accuracy and quality over the
contemporary medium resolution products.
“USDA’s NASS’ reporting is vital to U.S. food production, and we
are thrilled they are incorporating Planet’s satellite data to
contribute to their agriculture intelligence used by partner
agencies and the public,” said Vince Hurley of Planet Federal.
“It’s encouraging to see this group integrate commercial datasets
and products into their workflows, and we’re eager to see how
accurate and timely Planet data contributes to their 2021 growing
season assessment.”
Accurate data is valued by farmers and agribusinesses throughout
the United States, because it supports informed decisions about
crop management, marketing, and logistical operations,. Further,
data driven decision-making can help ensure a sustainable food
supply, manage risk, and increase profitability.
“Planet’s Basemaps provide a frequent and high-resolution
solution for agricultural monitoring as farming becomes an
increasingly data and technology driven process,” said Rick
Mueller, section head, USDA NASS Spatial Analysis Research Section.
“With Planet’s robust dataset integrated into our workflow, NASS
can better understand and quantify trends in upcoming growing
seasons, identify regions prone to drought stress and natural
disasters, and provide high resolution assessments of crop
production.”
About Planet
Planet is the 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 and compiling data from over 3
million images per day. Planet provides mission-critical data,
advanced insights, and software solutions to over 600 customers,
comprised of 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 recently entered into a
definitive merger agreement with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV
(NYSE:DMYQ), a special purpose acquisition company, to become a
publicly-traded company. To learn more visit www.planet.com and
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