USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast

Re:USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast by JamisonM on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:09PM (#24067278)

  "Planet Labs ... photographs the whole globe once per day..."

This is not an accurate representation of Planet Labs capabilities. I can attest to this as a Farmer's Edge customer.

In the theoretical world where every inch of the earth was photographed every day things like losing MH-17 likely wouldn't have happened.

ETA: Planet claims "entire landmass" every day but I find that claim extremely suspect, but it does not even claim the entire globe.

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Re:USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast by dervos on Monday August 10, 2020 @05:28AM (#24107235)

> In the theoretical world where every inch of the earth was photographed every day things like losing MH-17 likely wouldn't have happened.

I think you mean MH370 instead of MH-17.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

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Re:USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast by azernik on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:48AM (#24081249)

What is your experience of the frequency of Planet's reimaging? And at what resolution?

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Re:USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast by JamisonM on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:27PM (#24163495)

Somewhere between weekly and every 3 days, occasionally worse. I do not know the exact resolutions involved but they have "good" and "bad" NVDI images and the "bad" ones are fairly useless for agricultural applications.

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