Planet Education and Research Program

The Planet Education and Research Program offers university-affiliated students, faculty members, and researchers limited, non-commercial access to PlanetScope and RapidEye imagery. This initiative aims to support academic endeavors by providing a unique, near-daily dataset for thesis research, GIS courses, and various data fusion projects. A valid university email address is required for application, ensuring access is granted to eligible academic users.

This program empowers researchers to study global change in realtime by providing daily, high-resolution imagery from anywhere in the world. Users can uncover threats to marine life, monitor present and historical changes to arctic rivers and glaciers, study forest dynamics, identify deforestation, and track urban growth. The imagery also supports monitoring geopolitical hotspots and measuring smallholder agricultural yields and global development.

Experts from various fields, including economists and ecologists, can combine Planet imagery with other datasets to derive new insights. The platform facilitates building object-detection algorithms, analyzing economic indicators in global market contexts, and integrating datasets for geopolitical and socioeconomic activity analysis. A Campus License is available, providing access to Planet data across an entire university ecosystem, from undergraduates to postdocs, fostering collaboration and curriculum development around real-time changes and world events.