Dear CrisisMappers, HOT and Digital Humanitarians, I'm collaborating with Planet Labs <https://www.planet.com/> to explore if/how their imagery might support disaster management efforts. The aim of Planet Labs is to ultimately image the entire Earth every 24 hours at a spatial resolution of 5 meters. Some examples of Planet's imagery is available here <https://www.planet.com/gallery/>. In terms of prior humanitarian applications, this short video <https://youtu.be/w-Q5eQRkvro?t=1m23s> includes a segment on Planet's response to the Nepal earthquake. The *New York Times* also used Planet's imagery in this recent piece <http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/17/world/middleeast/syrian-border.html> on refugee camps in Jordan. Planet makes their imagery available via a user-friendly API.
I'd be very keen to get your thoughts on where Planet could add significant and measurable added value to crisis mapping efforts. So I'd be most grateful if you could email me *off list *(do not reply all so that we don't flood 3,000+ inboxes) with concrete suggestions on how Planet might be able to meaningfully support our community. I'm particularly interested in suggestions that focus on tactical and field-based uses of Planet imagery for disaster management. Please note that this initiative is purely exploratory at this stage, so I want to make sure to manage expectations from the outset. Many thanks for your kind understanding. My very best, Patrick --- @: PatrickMeier <https://twitter.com/PatrickMeier>, PhD Blog: iRevolutions.org <http://www.irevolutions.org/> (1.7M hits) Book: Digital-Humanitarians.com <http://www.digital-humanitarians.com/> Newsletter: Digital Humanitarians <http://eepurl.com/9O7Y9>
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