Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
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At Planet, Will Marshall leads overall strategy for commercializing new geospatial data and analytics that are disrupting agriculture, mapping, energy, the environment and other vertical markets. Full bio
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because the Apollo 17 astronauts,
around the moon in 1972,
generation of human beings
Spaceship Earth,
to take care of it.
is beautiful, it's static,
scales with human activity.
have of it today is old.
you can't fix what you can't see.
of the whole planet every day.
and they're slow.
of a rocket just to launch it.
done an amazing job
it much more regularly,
we started Planet Labs
our satellite looks like:
and greatest electronics
this little package
resolution of the big satellite here,
thousandth of the mass.
"Dove" — Thank you.
satellites are typically named
Kill, I don't know,
humanitarian mission,
built them, though.
prototype in our garage.
Silicon Valley company that we are,
for a space company.
we learned from Silicon Valley.
release often" on our software.
risk approach.
just to test the satellites,
our satellites at scale.
so much capability into this little box.
our team over the years
access to satellite information.
company, Chris, Robbie and I,
at the United Nations
about exactly that question:
to help humanity?
people in developing countries
using satellites to help humanity.
we're space geeks,
about what's up there,
of two of our satellites
International Space Station.
looking out of the window.
scale of our two satellites.
smallest satellites ever
the biggest satellite ever.
solar array glints in the sun.
two of them like this,
Earth-imaging satellites in human history,
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completely radical new data set
more than 100 of these satellites
course of the next year.
of satellites in human history.
stays fixed with respect to the sun,
the Earth rotates underneath.
planet every 24 hours.
anywhere on the planet every day,
place on the planet every day.
just a couple of weeks ago,
imagery from the satellites
publicly for the first time right now.
taken by our satellite.
UC-Davis' campus
turned the camera on.
latest image of that area,
is from our satellite,
to track urban growth as it happens
in all cities, every day.
the extent of all water bodies
and help water security.
to food security.
grow in all the fields
the planet every day.
satellite was flying over Argentina.
thousands of applications of this data,
every tree on the planet every day.
today's image and yesterday's image,
you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
best thing that we could do with our data
companies and scientists and journalists
that they have about the planet.
to run their apps on our data.
to information about our planet.
new global data set.
of our Spaceship Earth.
you with is the following question:
whole planet every single day,
and explore with us.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Will Marshall - Space scientistAt Planet, Will Marshall leads overall strategy for commercializing new geospatial data and analytics that are disrupting agriculture, mapping, energy, the environment and other vertical markets.
Why you should listen
Will Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Planet. Prior to Planet, he was a Scientist at NASA/USRA where he worked on missions "LADEE" and "LCROSS," served as co-principal investigator on PhoneSat, and was the technical lead on research projects in space debris remediation.
Marshall received his PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford and his Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University and Harvard.
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