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Any university-affiliated student, faculty member or researcher may apply to our Education and Research Program

This program provides limited, non-commercial access to PlanetScope and RapidEye imagery. A university email address is required.

Thesis Research

Harness an unprecedented daily dataset

GIS Courses

Leverage classroom resources with Planet University

Data Fusion

Combine Planet imagery with other data for added insights

Nonprofit and government employees are not eligible for our E&R program. If you are a federal civilian agency researcher, check out our NASA CSDA program. For nonprofits, please visit the Nonprofit Program webpage..

HOW CAN IT HELP

Our Near-Daily Imagery Empowers Research at the Speed of Change

Study global change in real-time

Your field sites are changing every day. Now, you can access daily, high resolution imagery anywhere in the world to power your next breakthrough.

Uncover threats to reefs and other marine life

Monitor present and historical change to arctic rivers and glaciers
Study forest dynamics and identify deforestation
Monitor urban growth and geopolitical hotspots
Measure smallholder agricultural yields and global development

Derive insights across datasets

From economists to ecologists, join experts that are combining datasets, building new models, and developing analytics on the Planet platform.

Build object-detection algorithms to count, identify, and measure resources
Analyze economic indicators in the context of global markets
Integrate datasets to analyze geopolitical and socioeconomic activity
Enable multi-sensor fusion across datasets

2017

January 21, 2017

Botany Bay, Australia—Planet ship counting with daily global imagery

Society Climate and Economy in perfect balance

Educate for the insights economy

Our Campus License provides access to Planet data across the entire university ecosystem: from undergraduates to postdocs, lecturers to research specialists.

Collaborate across departments to uncover geospatial applications in new sectors
Develop curricula around real-time changes and world events
Easily administer account access and data provisioning

For the first time, scientists will have access to dense image time series from high-spatial-resolution satellite data.

JIM KELLNER

Brown University

Planet data could be a great tool to introduce Object Oriented Classification, or even a great lecture about the scale and data sources. Truly the options are endless!

RYAN FRAZIER

Weber State University

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30 Million km² / yr PlanetScope & RapidEye Imagery
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$2,916_/mo

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100 Million km² / yr PlanetScope & RapidEye Imagery
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Education and Research Program

Any university-affiliated student, faculty member or researcher may apply to our Education and Research Program

Thesis Research

GIS Courses

Data Fusion

Our Near-Daily Imagery Empowers Research at the Speed of Change

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