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A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/terra-bella-planet-labs/472734/

“The product is information processing—real-time, fact-based data,” says Robbie Schlinger, co-founder of Planet Labs.

“The tides are changing on greenhouse-gas emissions, deforestation, and agricultural land use,” he told me. Planet Labs might attain its goal at the right time to help. With its all-imagery-everywhere service, the company could initiate or assist with “a global measuring and verification system for carbon.”

By combining images of noticeable economic activity—and all major land change—such a program could be a “definitive, factual, unbiased account of the world’s carbon system.” Its database could then help arbitrate an international cap-and-trade scheme or another global carbon-pricing system.

Planet Labs will soon have an image of every spot on the globe, updated at least once every day. This roughly 50-trillion-pixel portrait of Earth, daily made anew, will serve as both an incredibly valuable data resource for humanity and as Planet Labs’ flagship product.

>For a rough estimate assuming each spot on earth is photographed exactly once per day: (50 trillion pixels) / (surface area of the earth (200 million square miles)) = 250000 pixels/sq. mi.

>Assuming all pixels are equal, each one represents a box 10.5 ft x 10.5 ft.