Using Planet Data to Expand Your Research

Planet Labs data is here! Learn more about this near-daily stream of Earth-observation satellite data that is free to UArizona users.

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An image of the planet earth in space.

When

4 – 5:30 p.m., Feb. 14, 2023

Please join us for a presentation by Planet Labs and University of Arizona researchers on how you can use Planet data to enhance your work.

The university and Planet Labs are partnering to provide free access to UArizona users of a near-daily stream of Earth-observation satellite data. Come learn about this vast dataset that is useful to researchers, students, policymakers and other users. We also will reveal an inaugural Research Data Challenge for undergraduates and graduate students that will kickoff Feb. 15.

Refreshments will be provided. Space is limited.

Register Here

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.