Planet Introduces New High Resolution Pelican Satellites and Fusion with SAR
13 October 2021 - 2:30AM
Business Wire
At Explore 21, Planet reveals plans for its
next-generation high resolution satellite constellation and new
analytics products
Planet, a leading provider of daily data and insights about
Earth, today announced two major new products: Pelican, a next
-generation fleet of satellites for very high resolution imagery
that will begin launching next year and be operational in 2023, and
Fusion with SAR, a cutting-edge data enhancement to its existing
Fusion Monitoring product.
When fully operational, the Pelican constellation replenishes
and upgrades Planet’s existing high resolution SkySat fleet with
better resolution, more frequent image revisit times, and reduced
reaction time and latency. The Fusion line will now include SAR
(synthetic aperture radar) data, enabling customers to see through
clouds with a datastream of continuous landscape monitoring.
Pelican
With increased response times, Pelican customers will be able to
task and receive images with significantly reduced latency. The
constellation will offer enhanced image resolution, enabling
customers to see fine details like road markings. When fully
operational, the Pelican fleet will exceed SkySat’s market-leading
global intraday revisit frequency of up to 10 times. When paired
with Planet’s full suite of daily, global monitoring data and
analytics solutions, Pelican will enable powerful new insights that
drive unparalleled awareness and decision making for users working
in government, sustainability, finance, insurance, and more. The
Pelican constellation was designed in-house and will be built at
Planet’s headquarters in San Francisco.
“Pelican significantly advances Planet’s product suite with the
highest temporal resolution and revisit times that we have ever
offered, while dramatically reducing the time between tasking and
receipt of an image. In a world that is increasingly fast-changing
and unpredictable, this kind of detailed information on demand will
be a game changer for our customers who every day need to make
quick, consequential decisions,” said Planet’s Senior Vice
President of Space Systems James Mason.
Planet’s agile and modular approach towards designing and
building spacecraft and software enables the company to quickly
innovate their products, providing timely, detailed, and unique
datasets to customers every year. In this vein, the Pelican
satellite architecture leverages that of the Carbon Mapper
constellation, which was announced in April 2021. This modularity
and multi-mission flexibility is a defining characteristic of
Planet’s agile aerospace methodology and enables the company to
pursue two critical and ambitious missions quickly and
affordably.
Fusion with SAR
Last year, Planet announced Fusion Monitoring, a unique solution
that combines Planet’s daily, global PlanetScope monitoring data
with additional datasets to deliver a consistent stream of
information about a customer’s area of interest. Planet will now
merge SAR data from Sentinel 1 into the Fusion line, providing
improved sensing to customers in the agricultural sector. This
additional data stream will help to boost the reliability of
agronomic models that consume Fusion data, especially in very
cloudy regions. SAR data has the advantage of imaging through
clouds and weather that obscure optical data. By incorporating SAR
data into the Fusion product, Planet can offer superior continuous
monitoring of crop health and capture key events like harvesting or
the effects of storm damage.
“All of Planet’s data is analytics ready. This is the foundation
of our Fusion product line and core to our ability to combine
Planet data with that of other sensors,” said Planet President
Kevin Weil. “By incorporating SAR into our daily Fusion monitoring
product we ensure direct measurements regardless of cloud cover,
providing more insights to our customers to reliably power their
decisions.”
Earlier this year, Planet 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.
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 700 customers,
including 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. To learn more visit www.planet.com and follow us on
Twitter at @planet.
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