Planet Data Is Coming to UArizona

Learn how you can use Planet data in your work

When

4 – 5:30 p.m., Feb. 14, 2023

The University and Planet Labs are partnering to provide free access for UArizona users to a near-daily stream of Earth-observation satellite data. Planet operates a fleet of more than 200 imaging satellites, capturing over 30 terabytes of data per day and over 350 million square kilometers of imagery daily. The Institute for Computation & Data-Enabled Insight, Arizona Institute for Resilience, Data Science Institute, and Data Cooperative, University Libraries are sponsoring two event to launch the partnership.

On Feb. 14, faculty, postdocs, and graduate students are invited to learn how they can use Planet data to enhance their research. https://datainsight.arizona.edu/events/planet-data-launch

Refreshments will be provided. Space is limited.

Speakers

Austin Stone, Customer Success Manager, Education & Research, Planet Labs PBC. Introduction to Planet Labs data

Hannah Friedrich, PhD Student, School of Geography, Development & Environment Disaster recovery from space

Jonathan Giezendanner, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Geography, Development & Environment Detecting floods from space: the advantages of high resolution and high temporal Planet images

Tyson Swetnam, Assistant Research Professor, Geoinformatics & Co-Principal Investigator of CyVerseWorking with cloud-optimized, and analysis-ready data formats on the cloud

Sponsored by the Institute for Computation & Data-Enabled Insight, Arizona Institute for Resilience, Data Science Institute, and Data Cooperative, University Libraries.

Contacts

Angela Cruze