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Mar 29, 2018

Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before

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Robert Simmon in Planet Stories

Apr 22, 2017

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 4: Working with Satellite Data

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Robert Simmon in Planet Stories

Apr 4, 2017

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL, Part 1

In 1885 the United States Geological Survey published their first map of the Canyonlands, a…

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Robert Simmon in Planet Stories

Apr 12, 2017

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL, Part 2: Map Projections & gdalwarp

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Planet in Planet Stories

Dec 29, 2016

Our favorite satellite imagery of 2016

The most striking Earth imagery from a year in orbit

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Patrick Armstrong in Planet Stories

Apr 4, 2018

A Handy Introduction to Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs

Since I started working at Planet, I kept hearing about Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs). My colleague Chris Holmes even wrote a post explaining what they are and how they’re useful. I decided to implement a Go library to be able to work with…

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Robert Simmon in Planet Stories

Apr 17, 2017

A Gentle Introduction to GDAL, Part 3: Geodesy & Local Map Projections

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Chris Holmes in Planet Stories

Apr 25, 2018

Analysis Ready Data Defined

Cloud Native Geoprocessing Part 2

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Planet in Planet Stories

Feb 1, 2018

Tianjin Explosions Aftermath: Understanding Risk in Hi-Res

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Robert Simmon in Planet Stories

Jun 6, 2016

What’s False About True Color

I’ll start with a quiz: is this picture real—is it what an astronaut would see from space?

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