Earth Imaging-New Space

Here's looking at us [1]...

EarthPOV #EarthPOV PlanetCitizen #PlanetCitizen

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An API for the Planet #PlanetLabs Open Source Conference keynote [2]

Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet

Planet Labs/NYT Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves Smartphones in space!

Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth Doves fly Doves flock

Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites [3]

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

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

Startups -- NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threat

New Space era - startups to watch (our eyes are especially on Planet Labs) [4]... BlackBridge [5], Dauria [6], DigitalGlobe [7] #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space [8] [9] [10] GeoEye [11], Firefly Space Systems [12] [13], GeoOptics [14], NanoRacks [15], [16] [17], NovaWurks [18], OmniEarth [19] [20] [21] [22], OrbitLogic [23], PlanetiQ [24], Planet Labs [25] Pulse [26] [27] [28], RapidEye [29], Skybox [30] [31] [32], Teledyne [33], Tyvak Nano-Sat [34], Urthecast [35]

New Space [36] [37]

“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.