Earth Imaging-New Space

2023

New Space Update:

Todd Master: What began with cubesat rideshare on other launchers has evolved into a low cost, quarterly-ish ride for about a million bucks for 100kg. There are entire businesses that are enabled by this that could not have existed 5 years ago.

This critical part of the space industry is enabled by SpaceX's focused efforts on reuse that make these types of launches economically viable. It's intriguing to consider how consequential a single company's contribution is to kick-starting a whole economic ecosystem.

Time to Try the Timelapse app at Google Earth!

With a Tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to digital mapping, earth science visionaries

George E. Brown (Landsat) and Rebecca Moore (Google Earth Outreach)

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr | https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Moore_(scientist) | https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rebecca_Google_Outreach.jpg

• https://twitter.com/ESA_EO/status/1639911818230390786

• https://t.co/HILNINfsWb

• https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Satellite_imagery_key_to_powering_Google_Earth

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• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth_Timelapse

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Maps

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Via Azavea 2023

Google Earth

• https://earth.google.com/web/

Bing Maps Aerial

• https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=8651e4d585654f6b955564efe44d04e5#!

Mapbox Satellite Live

• https://www.mapbox.com/maps/satellite
• https://www.mapbox.com/imagery

HERE WeGo - Map View / Satellite

• https://www.here.com/ - https://wego.here.com

Zoom Earth

• https://zoom.earth/

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Maxxar

• https://www.maxar.com/

Airbus

• https://www.airbus.com/en

Hexagon Geospatial

• https://hexagon.com/solutions/geospatial-content

Vexcel Imaging

• https://www.vexcel-imaging.com/

EagleView

• https://www.eagleview.com/

Nearmap

• https://www.nearmap.com/us/en

Planet | Planet API

• https://www.planet.com/
• https://developers.planet.com/docs/data/skysat/
• https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/skysat

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2022

'New Space' | Democratization of Space / Earth Imaging

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space

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Time for Planet Citizen Action and a "CEOS", a Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

GreenPolicy360 welcomes the arrival of a global science mission, a "Global Stocktake", a collection of earth science data to be made available to the community of nations, to planet citizen activists and scientists, educational institutions, non-profits, NGOs, young and old to become tools for legal enforcement of national climate plans & pledges.

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Stocktake,_the_first_GST.jpg

See GreenPolicy 2021 initiative for Legally Enforcing National Climate Plans

Visit GreenPolicy360's "Climate Plans Enforcement" (Project-in-Dev 2021-2022)

"Turning National Climate Pledges & Promises into Reality"

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Plans_Enforcement_-_Resources

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Methods_to_enforce_climate_pledges-NDCs_-_Dec_2021.png

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Planet API

Space private sector Q2 2022 reports via @thesheetztweetz:

• https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/10/space-sector-q2-results-mixed-performance-with-progress-and-delays.html

CNBC breaks down the most recent quarterly reports for Aerojet Rocketdyne, AST SpaceMobile, Astra, BlackSky, Iridium, Maxar, Momentus, Mynaric, Redwire, Rocket Lab, Satellogic, Spire Global, Telesat, Terran Orbital, ViaSat, Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit.

and Planet | https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/PL

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API

Planet Labs PBC, formerly dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV, is a provider of global, daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions. The Company designs, builds, and operates the Earth observation fleet of imaging satellites, capturing, and compiling data from over three million images per day. The Company’s automated, cloud-native platform processes and manages data catalogue and extracts information. The Company’s platform includes imagery, insights, and machine learning that enables companies, governments, and communities around the world to make decisions about evolving world. Its platform and analytics products include Planet Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Planet Applications, Planet Basemaps, Planet Fusion, and Planet Analytics Feeds. The Company provides mission-critical data, advanced insights, and software solutions, across agriculture, forestry, intelligence, education and finance companies and government agencies, enabling users to derive satellite imagery.

$AJRD | $ASTS | $ASTR | $BKSY | $IRDM | $MAXR | $MNTS | $MYNA | $RDW

$RKLB | $SATL | $SPIR | $TSAT | $LLAP | $VSAT | $SPCE | $VORB

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Earth Science Research from Space: Methane emissions

Extremely large emitters — releasing more than 25 tons per hour — can be seen and tracked from near-earth orbit

Earth imaging data from a sensor aboard a European satellite, Sentinel 5

• https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-5

Using data from 2019 and 2020, (scientists) located about 1,200 of these ultra emitters, a large portion of them from Russia, Turkmenistan, the United States, the Middle East and Algeria.

Total emissions from these sites were estimated at about 9 million tons per year. In terms of its potential to warm the planet, that much methane is equivalent to about 275 million tons of carbon dioxide, which is the total carbon footprint of 40 million people, based on the global average per capita.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_has_a_new_mission..._against_Methane.png

GreenPolicy360:

Methane hot spots we're coming to find you, identify you, act to stop you and enforce climate laws.

"Super emitters", we have a message for you, you can't hide....

• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/methane-super-emitters-mapped-by-nasa-s-new-earth-space-mission

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_has_a_new_mission..._against_Methane.png

Seen From Space: Huge Methane Leaks

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/climate/methane-leaks-satellites.html

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/03/cracking-down-methane-ultra-emitters-is-quick-way-combat-climate-change-researchers-find/

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

Copernicus EU

Methane, We're Watching

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Copernicus_EU

* https://hsat.space/satellites-sentinel-5/

Detecting methane from space

"There has been quite a buzz around this unique advancement in space, and the valuable data it will provide on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that accounts for a quarter of the warming our planet is experiencing today. Curbing anthropogenic methane emissions is one of the most efficient and economical options available to slow the rate of warming over the next few decades, while efforts continue to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide."

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New Space

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Planet Labs Doves Fly

PlanetLabs & Bioneer Leonardo DiCaprio join up with #Earth Vision

Reefscape, Another New Way to View, Watch Over & Care for Our Common Home

The Commons

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US environmental group wins millions to develop methane-monitoring satellite

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is planning to be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space

“We need good solid data so that we really can support global action on climate change, and we’ve got to do it fast,” says Steven Hamburg, the EDF’s chief scientist.

The most detailed measurements currently available of atmospheric methane concentrations come from a sensor aboard the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P spacecraft, which launched in October 2017. The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument provides global coverage at a resolution of nearly 50 square kilometres, but those measurements at this time do not capture the dispersed sources of emissions from oil and gas fields.

Commercial firms have developed high-resolution sensors that can be placed aboard 10-centimetre-sided CubeSats to measure emissions from individual wells or other facilities. Those data are proprietary, however, and the measurements currently cannot be scaled up to the level of an entire oil and gas field.

The Environmental Defense Fund team is designing MethaneSAT to provide more-precise measurements, at a resolution of 1 square kilometre, with global coverage at least once a week.

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Earth Science from Space

New Ways to See & Take 'Earth Action'

Planet Citizen Action

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Action

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:PlanetLabs_homepage2016.png

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations -

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

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Weather Watch

Eyes in the Sky: Atmospheric Science

Weather Satellites

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_satellite

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_observation_satellite

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Earth_observation_satellites

Meteorological Satellites (List of Weather Satellites)

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Meteorological_satellites

NOAA GOES Satellite Servers Data

• https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/

• https://www.goes.noaa.gov/

• https://www.goes.noaa.gov/sat-explanation.html

• https://www.goes.noaa.gov/f_himawari-8.html

• https://www.goes.noaa.gov/msg.html

Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Centers

• https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrsmc.shtml

NOAA Hurricane Research Division

• https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane-research-division/

Archive / Wayback Machine / InternationalWeatherArchive.org (with viewer)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100201214229/http://internationalweatherarchive.org/satellites/goesEast.aspx

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100202021807/http://internationalweatherarchive.org/satellites/goesWest.aspx

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100202032428/http://internationalweatherarchive.org/satellites/meteosat7.aspx

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100202032500/http://internationalweatherarchive.org/satellites/meteosat9.aspx

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100202032505/http://internationalweatherarchive.org/satellites/mtsat1R.aspx

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Ocean Science / Earth Science

Mapping Planet Citizen Action

Google Earth Outreach

Bioneer Rebecca Moore

Global Fishing Watch

Global Forest Watch

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Forest_Watch

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The Commons

Earth Science Research from Space

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Planet Labs Doves Fly

Virtual Earth

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Planet Labs is now just 'Planet'

Planet Announcement - June 12, 2016

* https://www.planet.com/pulse/meet-our-new-brand/

Planet.com

An API for the Planet #PlanetLabs

Open Source Conference keynote API / An Open Sourced Discovery

"In Space for betterment of life on Earth''

"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."

Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet

Planet Labs, newly deployed Doves

Smartphones++ in Space!

Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth

Doves fly

Doves Flock

Doves Flock 1

Via the NYT ... Investing in Earth Imaging

Visit Planet's Earth Images Gallery

https://www.planet.com/gallery/

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Earth Imaging: Eyes in the Sky, Monitoring the Earth by Satellite

2014 / 2013

Private-sector Business Joins Government-funded Space Enterprise

NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats

Nine 'New Space' startups to watch (our eyes are especially on "Planet Labs")

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Protection

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security

• https://newspaceglobal.com/

• BlackBridge (acquired by Planet in 2015) -- http://www.blackbridge.com/

• Dauria -- http://dauriaspace.com/DigitalGlobe

DigitalGlobe -- https://www.digitalglobe.com/] | [1] [2] [3]

• GeoEye -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoEye [4]

• Firefly Space Systems -- http://www.fireflyspace.com/ [5]

• GeoOptics -- http://geooptics.com/

• Isar Aerospace -- https://www.isaraerospace.com/about

• Maxar -- https://www.maxar.com/ | https://www.maxar.com/space-infrastructure | https://www.maxar.com/products/satellite-imagery | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBird

• NanoRacks -- http://nanoracks.com/ [6] [7]

• NovaWurks -- http://www.novawurks.com/index.html

• OmniEarth [http://www.marketwatch.com/story/omniearth-announces-partnership-to-create-global-satellite-constellation-and-extensive-hosted-payload-opportunity-2014-05-20 [8] [9],

• OrbitLogic -- http://www.orbitlogic.com/

• PlanetiQ -- http://www.planetiq.com/

• Planet Labs -- http://www.planet.com/ Pulse [10] [11] [12]

• RapidEye (acquired by Planet Labs in 2015)

• Skybox -- http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/google-buys-satellite-imaging-company-skybox-for-500-million/ [13] [14]

• Teledyne --http://www.tbe.com/

• Tyvak Nano-Sat -- http://tyvak.com/

• Urthecast -- http://www.urthecast.com/

New Space

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit

“With all these start-ups, the things you’ll be able to do with satellite images will grow exponentially.” - IEEE-May 2014

Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit.

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EarthPOV

Here's looking at us -- EarthPOV.com

What's Your Hashtag? #PlanetCitizen

PlanetCitizens.org

Democratization of Space

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Satellite_-comparisons.jpg