Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
Will Marshall: Diminutos satélites que nos muestran la Tierra a medida que cambia en tiempo casi real
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,
del Apolo 17,
around the moon in 1972,
generation of human beings
estábamos en la nave espacial Tierra,
Spaceship Earth,
to take care of it.
is beautiful, it's static,
es hermosa, es estática,
está en constante cambio.
scales with human activity.
debido a la actividad humana.
que tenemos hoy, son viejas.
have of it today is old.
you can't fix what you can't see.
arreglar lo que no puedes ver.
of the whole planet every day.
imágenes del planeta a diario.
and they're slow.
y 4 m de diámetro.
of a rocket just to launch it.
del cohete para lanzarlos.
done an amazing job
un muy buen trabajo
it much more regularly,
no es reproducible a gran escala.
we started Planet Labs
Planet Lab
our satellite looks like:
dispositivos tecnológicos
and greatest electronics
this little package
en este espacio reducido
resolution of the big satellite here,
10 veces mayor que este gran satélite
thousandth of the mass.
"Dove" — Thank you.
Gracias.
satellites are typically named
normalmente aves de rapiña:
Kill, I don't know,
Asesino, no sé,
tiene una misión humanitaria,
humanitarian mission,
built them, though.
prototype in our garage.
prototipo en el garaje.
Silicon Valley company that we are,
en Silicon Valley que somos,
for a space company.
para una compañía espacial.
we learned from Silicon Valley.
que aprendimos en Silicon Valley.
el prototipo para nuestro satélite.
lanzar frecuente" en nuestro software
release often" on our software.
risk approach.
just to test the satellites,
solo para probarlos,
our satellites at scale.
un gran número de ellos,
so much capability into this little box.
dispositivos en esta pequeña caja.
our team over the years
nuestro equipo en los últimos años
access to satellite information.
el acceso a la información por satélite.
company, Chris, Robbie and I,
de la empresa Chris, Robbie y yo,
at the United Nations
de 15 años en las ONU
about exactly that question:
sobre este mismo tema:
to help humanity?
para ayudar a la humanidad,
people in developing countries
o luchar contra el cambio climático?
using satellites to help humanity.
es la pasión de nuestro equipo.
we're space geeks,
de lo que está ahí arriba,
about what's up there,
aquí abajo también.
4 semanas con 2 satélites lanzados
of two of our satellites
International Space Station.
por el astronauta mirando por la ventana.
looking out of the window.
scale of our two satellites.
del tamaño aproximado de los 2 satélites.
smallest satellites ever
más pequeños jamás lanzados
the biggest satellite ever.
del Sol en los paneles solares.
solar array glints in the sun.
two of them like this,
hemos lanzado 28.
que toman imágenes en la historia,
Earth-imaging satellites in human history,
completely radical new data set
radicalmente nuevos datos
en constante cambio.
more than 100 of these satellites
course of the next year.
of satellites in human history.
de la historia de la humanidad.
stays fixed with respect to the sun,
inmóviles con respecto al Sol
que apuntan hacia abajo,
the Earth rotates underneath.
a medida que gire por debajo.
planet every 24 hours.
anywhere on the planet every day,
de algún lugar todos los días,
place on the planet every day.
lugar en el planeta a diario.
just a couple of weeks ago,
solo hace unas pocas semanas
imagery from the satellites
las primeras imágenes satelitales
publicly for the first time right now.
por primera vez en público.
tomada por nuestro satélite
taken by our satellite.
de la Universidad de Davis, California
UC-Davis' campus
turned the camera on.
latest image of that area,
con la última conocida
viene de nuestro satélite
is from our satellite,
to track urban growth as it happens
expansión urbana en tiempo real
las ciudades, todos los días.
in all cities, every day.
la expansión del agua
the extent of all water bodies
y ayudar a su seguridad.
and help water security.
to food security.
a la alimentaria.
grow in all the fields
que crecen en todos los campos
the planet every day.
en el planeta todos los días
el rendimiento de su cosechas.
satellite was flying over Argentina.
estaba volando sobre Argentina.
thousands of applications of this data,
de aplicaciones para estos datos.
el deshielo de los glaciares.
every tree on the planet every day.
cada árbol en el planeta a diario.
today's image and yesterday's image,
de hoy con las de ayer,
you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
y los terremotos.
best thing that we could do with our data
que podríamos hacer
a estos datos.
(Aplausos)
companies and scientists and journalists
empresas, científicos y periodistas
that they have about the planet.
que tengan sobre el planeta.
to run their apps on our data.
de desarrolladores
en nuestros datos.
to information about our planet.
sobre nuestro planeta.
new global data set.
totalmente nuevos.
of our Spaceship Earth.
you with is the following question:
con la siguiente pregunta:
whole planet every single day,
a imágenes de todo el planeta
y explorar con nosotros.
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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