Planet Announces AI Partnerships at GEOINT 2023

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced new strategic partnerships with artificial intelligence (AI) analytics providers at the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s 2023 GEOINT Symposium. These companies’ AI-powered analytics enable object detection and classification services on top of Planet’s high-frequency, medium- and high-resolution satellite data. Automated analytics are core to helping our customers better understand change and make critical decisions faster.

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Rapid Automatic Image Categorization with Synthetaic

Wisconsin-based AI startup Synthetaic joined the Planet Orbit partnership program in April 2023. Their signature product, RAIC (Rapid Automatic Image Categorization), automates the analysis of large, unstructured datasets like geospatial imagery so even a non-technical user can detect objects in minutes, or train and deploy AI models radically faster than traditional approaches and without labeled data.

Through this partnership, customers are now able to obtain Synthetaic RAIC object detection analytics on top of a defined area of interest (AOI) within Planet data. The companies also plan to develop a combined offering that aims to enable additional alerting capabilities when change occurs or specific objects are detected within focus areas.

“When faced with an issue of commercial or national security importance, there’s no time to label and analyze huge swaths of data,” said Kevin Weil, Planet’s President of Product and Business. “This partnership will enable Synthetaic to RAIC Planet’s imagery and archive to deliver broad area search and daily monitoring of activity that can provide necessary information to industry and government analysts and decision-makers quickly.”

Synthetaic previously leveraged Planet’s daily scan and archive data to identify and trace the flightpath back-to-origin of a massive Chinese balloon that captured national attention when it flew across North America in February. They also used Planet data for disaster response and aid distribution modeling after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria in February 2023.

“Initially finding the Chinese balloon was the ultimate needle in a haystack,” said Synthetaic CEO Corey Jaskolski. “It shows what RAIC can do, and we look forward to working with Planet and our collective customers to identify what other needles can be detected and monitored regularly on a global scale.”