SUPPORTING EMERGENCY RESPONSE BY SATELLITE IMAGERY

Accelerating Emergency 

and Disaster Response

The Need for Speed

The past decade has seen satellite imagery become a critical information source for supporting emergency response and disaster relief. From hurricanes to floods to wildfires, satellite imagery often provides the first macro view of the destructive impacts of a disaster. At Planet, we have distributed our imagery to first responders in the aftermath of several disaster events, from Hurricane Harvey to the recent, fatal Camp Fire in California.

Despite the wealth of insights contained in satellite imagery, visual inspection and analysis of imagery can take a lot of time, and in the case of disasters, every minute counts when it comes to a response. The ability to automate (and thus accelerate) analysis of satellite imagery to support first responders and relief efforts would be hugely impactful. This motivated Planet’s Analytics team to build analytic capabilities specifically for detecting relevant objects before and after disaster. (...)

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