Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
Will Marshall: Jorden förändras ständigt - små satelliter hjälper oss se det i realtid.
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,
eftersom astronauterna på Apollo 17,
around the moon in 1972,
generation of human beings
rymdskeppet Jorden,
Spaceship Earth,
to take care of it.
is beautiful, it's static,
scales with human activity.
de mänskliga aktiviteterna.
have of it today is old.
you can't fix what you can't see.
fixa något du inte kan se.
of the whole planet every day.
bilder av planeten varje dag.
and they're slow.
of a rocket just to launch it.
bärraketen när den sköts upp.
amerikanska dollar.
done an amazing job
ett fantastiskt jobb
it much more regularly,
bättre förståelse för den,
we started Planet Labs
our satellite looks like:
och bästa elektroniken
and greatest electronics
this little package
resolution of the big satellite here,
upplösning än den stora satelliten kan,
thousandth of the mass.
en tusendel så mycket.
"Dove" — Thank you.
satellites are typically named
satelliter vanligtvis namnges
Kill, I don't know,
humanitarian mission,
built them, though.
prototype in our garage.
prototyp i garaget.
Silicon Valley company that we are,
för ett företag i Silicon Valley,
for a space company.
för ett rymdföretag.
we learned from Silicon Valley.
vi lärde oss av Silicon Valley.
release often" on our software.
för vår mjukvara.
risk approach.
just to test the satellites,
dem för att testa dem,
our satellites at scale.
so much capability into this little box.
mycket kompetens i den här lilla lådan.
our team over the years
team under årens lopp
access to satellite information.
tillgången till satellitinformation.
company, Chris, Robbie and I,
Chris, Robbie och jag,
at the United Nations
i Förenta Nationerna
about exactly that question:
to help humanity?
människor i u-länder
people in developing countries
using satellites to help humanity.
satelliter i mänsklighetens tjänst.
we're space geeks,
about what's up there,
vad som finns där uppe,
finns här nere också.
of two of our satellites
International Space Station.
internationella rymdstationen.
looking out of the window.
scale of our two satellites.
våra satelliters storlek.
smallest satellites ever
världens största satellit.
the biggest satellite ever.
solar array glints in the sun.
two of them like this,
Earth-imaging satellites in human history,
någonsin som fotograferar jorden,
completely radical new data set
med en helt ny typ av bilder
more than 100 of these satellites
skjuta upp över hundra satelliter
course of the next year.
of satellites in human history.
satelliter i mänsklighetens historia.
stays fixed with respect to the sun,
som är konstant i förhållande till solen,
the Earth rotates underneath.
i takt med jordens rotation.
axel på 24 timmar,
planet every 24 hours.
på jorden var tjugofjärde timme.
anywhere on the planet every day,
vad som helst på planeten,
place on the planet every day.
plats på planeten varje dag.
just a couple of weeks ago,
för bara några veckor sedan,
imagery from the satellites
publicly for the first time right now.
offentligt för första gången.
taken by our satellite.
bilden tagen av vår satellit.
UC-Davis' campus
turned the camera on.
latest image of that area,
tagna bilderna över området,
is from our satellite,
to track urban growth as it happens
följa den urbana tillväxten i realtid
in all cities, every day.
i alla städer, varje dag.
the extent of all water bodies
alla områden med vatten
and help water security.
trygga vattenförsörjningen.
to food security.
till livsmedelstillgång.
grow in all the fields
the planet every day.
satellite was flying over Argentina.
satelliten flög över Argentina.
thousands of applications of this data,
användningsområden för detta,
every tree on the planet every day.
träd på jorden varenda dag.
today's image and yesterday's image,
översvämningar, bränder och jordbävningar.
you'd see floods and fires and earthquakes.
best thing that we could do with our data
kan göra med vår insamlade data
tillgång till den.
alla kan ta del av den.
companies and scientists and journalists
organisationer, företag och journalister
that they have about the planet.
frågeställningar om planeten.
to run their apps on our data.
att skapa appar kring vår data.
to information about our planet.
tillgång till informationen om vår planet.
new global data set.
of our Spaceship Earth.
om vårt rymdskepp Jorden.
you with is the following question:
med följande frågeställning:
whole planet every single day,
bilder av hela planeten,
tillsammans med oss.
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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