Planet Labs PBC, known as Planet, is an American Earth imaging company that operates a large fleet of satellites, including the Dove and SkySat constellations. They provide daily, high-resolution satellite imagery and geospatial solutions used for various applications like climate monitoring, agriculture, and disaster response. Planet's major partners and customers include governments, Google, and organizations in agriculture, forestry, and intelligence. The company's mission is to image the entire Earth every day to monitor changes and make the data accessible.
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Planet plans to scale the onboard AI technology across its Pelican and forthcoming Owl constellations.
On March 25, Planet’s Pelican-4 satellite was flying at approximately 500 kilometers over Alice Springs, Australia, when it captured an airport image and detected airplanes onboard using an NVIDIA Jetson Orin module.
Planet successfully deployed and ran artificial intelligence object detection onboard its Pelican-4 satellite.
Planet says its onboard AI inference on Pelican-4 was one of the first times an Earth imaging satellite moved beyond simple data capture to onboard AI inference.
Planet Labs PBC is producing GeoTIFF and GeoJSON insights within isolated Docker containers in space.
Planet Labs PBC’s Global Monitoring Service is a customer offering that may be differentiated by integrated AI at the edge.
Planet Labs PBC designed the end-to-end process for data generation, deep-net object detection, and full geo-rectification to occur entirely in orbit.
Planet Labs PBC used an onboard NVIDIA Jetson Orin module on Pelican-4 to detect airplanes in an image captured on March 25 over Alice Springs, Australia.
Planet Labs PBC successfully deployed and executed AI-driven object detection onboard its Pelican-4 satellite.
Planet Labs PBC has a strategic initiative with NVIDIA focused on on-orbit compute for rapid insights.
Planet Labs PBC’s onboard models are in their early stages and will continue to be refined.
Planet Labs PBC’s Pelican-4 operation was one of the first times an Earth imaging satellite moved beyond simple data capture to onboard AI inference and analysis.
Planet Labs PBC aims to generate intelligence about events in minutes.
Planet Labs PBC is working to turn Pelican and forthcoming Owl constellations into a near-real-time intelligence network.
Planet Labs PBC is using NVIDIA Jetson and high-speed inter-satellite links to reduce the latency between data capture and customer insights.
Planet Labs PBC calls its on-orbit compute capability Planetary Intelligence.
Planet plans to begin launching second-generation Pelican satellites later in 2026.
Planet’s first-generation Pelican satellites are designed to capture 50 cm-class resolution imagery across six multispectral bands.