Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
Will Marshall: Kleine satellieten laten de veranderde aarde bijna real-time zien
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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aan je voor te stellen.
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.
door menselijke activiteiten.
have of it today is old.
dat we nu hebben, is oud.
you can't fix what you can't see.
je niet kunt repareren wat je niet ziet.
of the whole planet every day.
van de hele planeet.
and they're slow.
of a rocket just to launch it.
om hem te lanceren.
done an amazing job
hebben ons geweldig geholpen
it much more regularly,
we started Planet Labs
our satellite looks like:
and greatest electronics
in dit pakketje gestopt.
this little package
resolution of the big satellite here,
dan die van de grote satelliet,
thousandth of the mass.
duizend keer kleiner.
"Dove" — Thank you.
satellites are typically named
naar vogels worden genoemd,
Kill, I don't know,
humanitarian mission,
built them, though.
prototype in our garage.
in onze garage.
Silicon Valley company that we are,
voor een bedrijf in Silicon Valley,
for a space company.
voor een ruimtevaartbedrijf.
we learned from Silicon Valley.
die we van Silicon Valley leerden.
van onze satellieten.
release often" on our software.
'release early, release often'
risk approach.
just to test the satellites,
om ze te testen.
our satellites at scale.
so much capability into this little box.
in deze kleine doos stoppen.
our team over the years
in al die jaren,
access to satellite information.
van de informatie van de satelliet.
company, Chris, Robbie and I,
Chris, Robbie en ik,
at the United Nations
bij de VN,
about exactly that question:
over deze vraag:
to help humanity?
people in developing countries
using satellites to help humanity.
om met satellieten de mensheid te helpen.
we're space geeks,
about what's up there,
gek op dingen daarboven,
of two of our satellites
van twee van onze satellieten
International Space Station.
looking out of the window.
die uit het raam kijkt.
scale of our two satellites.
van onze twee satellieten.
smallest satellites ever
the biggest satellite ever.
solar array glints in the sun.
weerkaatst de zon in een paneel.
two of them like this,
deze twee gelanceerd,
Earth-imaging satellites in human history,
fotosatellieten in de geschiedenis,
completely radical new data set
een heel nieuwe verzameling gegevens op
more than 100 of these satellites
van deze satellieten lanceren
course of the next year.
of satellites in human history.
satellieten ooit worden.
stays fixed with respect to the sun,
in een vast vlak ten opzichte van de zon,
the Earth rotates underneath.
die onder ze door draait.
planet every 24 hours.
anywhere on the planet every day,
van ergens op de planeet,
place on the planet every day.
van elke plek op Aarde.
just a couple of weeks ago,
een paar weken geleden gelanceerd.
imagery from the satellites
publicly for the first time right now.
taken by our satellite.
die de satelliet nam.
UC-Davis' campus
van UC-Davis in Californië
turned the camera on.
latest image of that area,
is from our satellite,
to track urban growth as it happens
verstedelijking in de gaten houden,
in all cities, every day.
the extent of all water bodies
de omvang van alle wateren op aarde zien,
and help water security.
to food security.
naar voedselveiligheid.
grow in all the fields
dat op de akker staat,
the planet every day.
die een paar uur geleden genomen is,
satellite was flying over Argentina.
thousands of applications of this data,
duizenden toepassingen zijn.
every tree on the planet every day.
elke dag elke boom op aarde.
today's image and yesterday's image,
van gisteren en vandaag,
overstromingen, branden en aardbevingen.
you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
best thing that we could do with our data
tot de gegevens.
companies and scientists and journalists
en journalisten de mogelijkheid geven
that they have about the planet.
te kunnen beantwoorden.
to run their apps on our data.
onze gegevens kunnen gebruiken.
to information about our planet.
tot de informatie over de aarde.
new global data set.
verzameling gegevens ontstaat.
of our Spaceship Earth.
you with is the following question:
whole planet every single day,
tot foto's van de hele aarde,
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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