"Collaborating with ESA as part of the Earthnet Programme is the next step for Planet in our mission to image all of Earth's landmass every day, making global change visible, accessible, and actionable", said Charlie Candy, Planet's Chief Revenue Officer. "The high-resolution and high-frequency imagery from these satellite constellations will provide an invaluable resource for the European R&D and applications community, greatly benefiting research and business opportunities across a wide range of sectors."
"We are very pleased to welcome PlanetScope and SkySat to ESA's Third Party Missions portfolio and to begin the distribution of the Planet data through the ESA Earthnet Programme," said Peggy Fischer, the Mission Manager of ESA Third Party Missions. In 2019, Planet entered into an agreement with ESA to evaluate making Planet's data from its high-resolution constellation available as a Third Party Mission.
ESA EARTHNET PROGRAM ARCHIVE
Within this program, Planet joins more than 50 other missions owned by commercial or public organizations to add near-daily PlanetScope imagery, 50 cm SkySat imagery, and RapidEye archive data to this global network. Initiated in 1976, the ESA Earthnet Programme is a "Network for the Earth," with the purpose of building an Earth Observation science community to acquire and share knowledge of our planet. Through distribution under the ESA Earthnet Programme, European researchers, scientists, and companies can access Planet's high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use. The tools are being developed to allow deployment within state-of-the-art satellite ground segment systems that use the latest Big Data and Cloud computing technologies.Planet Labs PBC PL, a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that Planet's PlanetScope and SkySat data have joined the European Space Agency (ESA) Third Party Missions portfolio, enabling ESA to utilize Planet data for scientific, research, and pre-operational Earth Observation based applications development. Ease-QC provides the tools to train advance Machine Learning algorithms to detect subtle anomalies within EO products. As such, Telespazio UK is developing new set of Artificial Intelligence-enabled S/W tools as part of the Ease-QC product suite. Telespazio UK has recognised the pressing need to more extensively automate the handling of the ever increasing amounts of data produced by new satellites. This work is being performed on behalf of ESA for the Earthnet Data Assessment Pilot (EDAP) and is a critical activity in assessing the suitability of these new products for scientifically demanding applications. This in-depth EO product expertise has been combined with Telespazio UK’s data processing and management capabilities to provide operational S/W developments such as the ESA EarthCARE mission’s Integrity & Calibration Monitoring Facility (ICMF).įurthermore, in response to the growing number of National and Commercial ‘New-space’ missions, Telespazio UK has expanded its EO data QC capabilities to address the wealth of new products being made available by these missions. IDEAS+/QA4EO responsibilities include management of expert science teams and development/update of QC tools and product processors. The service continues to be led by Telespazio UK as part of the new Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO) service. Cryosat, SMOS), Envisat and ERS reprocessed products, and third party missions (e.g.
ESA EARTHNET PROGRAM SERIES
The service spans ESA’s Flagship Earth Explorer series of satellites (e.g. This extensive expertise has been developed over ten years of leadership of the Instrument Data Evaluation and Analysis Service (IDEAS+) on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA). The expertise covers a wealth of sensor/instrument types (e.g Optical/Radar) for a range for traditional institutional missions, as well as commercial missions.
Telespazio UK is a leading provider of products and services related to Earth Observation product generation including data quality control/assurance and calibration.
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