Real-time maps made by tiny satellites will change open-source data forever

Real-time maps made by tiny satellites will change open-source data forever | Hard Reset Podcast #10

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Instead of your static map or tilted, spinny globe, this technology would unlock a daily, real-time image of the entire world.
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What if we had real-time access to everything that’s happening across the globe? Planet Labs is launching tiny satellites into space en masse to photograph our Earth at all angles, multiple times each day.
This tech could lead to a shift in the way we monitor the health of the planet and the activities of the global population. Whereas we have previously had to wait weeks or months for photographs of specific parts of the planet, we could have instant insights into the land and environmental happenings on it.
So, how could these satellites affect maps, surveillance, and the future of our planet’s climate?The Hard Reset Podcast hosts sit down to discuss.
0:00 Welcome to the Hard Reset Podcast
1:09 What makes this a Hard Reset?
1:57 What is the resolution of this tech?
6:11 How can this tech change how we think about satellites?
8:39 How can this change our perspective on the planet?
9:04 Is Planet Labs’ data free?
12:52 How does AI support this tech?
15:04 How could this tech be used during times of war?
27:04 Should we be skeptical of this tech?
36:24 What about the ‘space junk?’
45:41 What was the audience response to this episode?
50:15 What is the latest with Planet Labs?
54:34 What were some of the meanest comments on this video?
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@Waitwhat469 5 ай бұрын

The ability to be so granular about the results of data that is so widely collected is a super effective communication tool. Your example of "This is how your neighborhood is being measurably affected by XYZ" really sets home a message better than the nebulous conclusions normally gathered with such wide data (i.e. "Some neighborhoods somewhere are effected like this most of the time by XYZ")

@Gumby1978 5 ай бұрын

This goes beyond anything I ever imagined. This could be a great tool depending on who uses it.

@hwgusn 5 ай бұрын

Would be an interesting thing to show on the Sphere in Vegas a couple of times a day, the Earth Today. It would also make an incredibly interesting AR app. Just having a current globe any time you want.

@oakenarbor2046 5 ай бұрын

1983 second order geodetic data, human field acquired at 0.0001" resolution supported GPS ( Global Positioning Satellite) along a path of ever increasing data resolution at lower and lower cost. Digital Mapping, Remote Sensing Systems, digital communications all have been carrying us to today and beyond. Earth imaging at very fine resolution is already happening with every camera system setup and web connected. The data fusion from disparate system is already building records and actionable intelligence at microscopic resolutions. The idea of a Hard Reset seems abit to abrupt to my mind. Planet Labs is but another, welcomed addition to this explosion in earth telemetry. Just not sudden. IMO. Thanks for your content. Welcome 2024😊

@aryamanshukla2382 5 ай бұрын

Planet’s nanosatellite and mapping is amazing and was really fun to get to know about!! International Space Law has come up with laws on Space Debris with Space Tourism (Deep Space) catching up as a trend. In fact, I know someone who is working on these based in France. On Combative UAS, it is a possibility. Lots of information and work that is being done on it by the US alone. You can find a lot of information on it.

@aryamanshukla2382 5 ай бұрын

We have had so many teams in the Science Fair working on this as EWS (Early Warning Systems). You all need to go to one of these.

@hahaha9076 5 ай бұрын

UAPs guys. Yeah. We'll all be able to look for them.

@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh 5 ай бұрын

How do I get access to this dataset?

@andrewreynolds912 5 ай бұрын

That yo mama joke, though i died on that part! 🤣 😂

@jburgmedia 5 ай бұрын

The diameter of your mama exceeds 1 meter ...

@vannymwamba 5 ай бұрын

Great interview!

@DanFrederiksen 4 ай бұрын

1 meter is cool if it's very low cost but that wont replace aerial mapping. We need at least 30cm resolution that combined with AI could do both photogrammetry 3D, super resolution and fill in details to arbitrary resolution. 30cm resolution on a skyscraper is enough for AI to make a qualified guess at to what it looks like at arbitrary resolution and can make 3D models of buildings with window frames etc. 10cm resolution would be even better as then aerial mapping can be abandoned. I have suggested that microsoft (for flight sim) should have put up a cheap 30cm sat to map the world in 3D, always have current models and let AI fill in the details so it's the real world we have, not an army of modellers doing so so approximations. 30cm resolution is enough to get all the geometry of the Eiffel tower for instance. Zero manual work is key to having the whole world. So obvious for MS when they can also use it for their map services and have an edge on google for once. You probably need about a 2meter mirror at 600km to get good resolution and contrary to nasa's incompetent posturing, a 2 meter mirror is not at all hard to make. Just to mock nasa you could make the mirror 2.4meters to match hubble and do it for less than a million. In small series production they might be dirt cheap. And with the right technique they could also be very light. Ritchey chretien design is common for space telescope which is just two mirrors. No reason to make the mirrors thick.

@B0A2 4 ай бұрын

This is a cool idea, but the access to it is still pretty limited. Looking through their website you have to apply to use it, once this is more accessible I can see it being more useful, but for me and I imagine for most people I'd like more stuff for free

@Tommy-ym7vu 4 ай бұрын

The Big thing that this allows are the following scenarios, Oil Company A uses the data to see how often and how long Company B offloads its oil to a terminal. Company A can survey globalpalm oil production and have stats on production that effects stock prices before any official reports come out. i can think of 10 more commercial applications off the top of my head. so much potential.

@AndyShrestha 3 ай бұрын

It would be great if they can build a digital globe that people can put on their desk that updates times a day 😊

@portalpacific4500 5 ай бұрын

You all look so stiff in those chairs. Change the set to something comfy. MAN CAVE comfy... You look like 4 guys waiting at the DMV. -AGayDude

@NickFromHardReset 5 ай бұрын

I think your DMV might be substantially nicer than mine.

@speciesofspaces 5 ай бұрын

These arguments for finer and finer data sets and tools is a bit like looking at fractals. The degree to which the complexity grows and can be sorted out never ends. I would prefer us realize that as humans it seems highly unlikely to make these systemic problems pan out for us via models of continued growth. In other words, the hard truth might be that humans will not be able to grow both in size and complexity if the resource depletion and harmful waste streams created are important to our own survival. The microbes will eventually take over so again we seem many steps behind that kind of evolutionary adaptation. None of this is a "technical" problem then but the issue is more the size of the population with a global system that more or less has no inherent self-regulation or ability not to produce and yet remain in equilibrium. The perturbations are actually baked in etc. What one does in those times of radical departures from the average is more the issue and not necessarily newer and newer technologies which all carry the metaphorical weight of being part of the solution etc. For example, individually and collectively we find it impossible not to keep requiring more and more growth both from our economies but also our energy resources, despite, greater efficiencies among the latter. I don't know then that humans can achieve managed growth or steady-states through actual technical means. Behavior is more the issue and with billions of us we are no longer in control of that.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

Contrary to what's trying to be sold to you, individual use of energy hasn't significantly increased, and depending on how you do the math, you can actually argue that it's gone down overall given that livestock uses significant amounts of energy to maintain and individuals require less access to fresh animal products (mostly by choice) than ever before. It's only corporations that continue to bleed our planet despite our ever optimized energy production methods.

@speciesofspaces 4 ай бұрын

@@Atmatan_Kabbaher except the consumer is the engine there in the corporate model, so not sure how that stacks up against any optimization. The latter is not optimized. It's a system and structure based on consumption which despite us needing (some version of) it is not predicated on only what we need etc. There's a lot we could live without but the consumer has never been very interested in that approach.

@katherandefy 4 ай бұрын

Hmm I disagree. What we cannot measure we cannot control, actively or passively. Preferably passively.

@tyshon9642 4 ай бұрын

We just use the label open source for anything today the same way people calling any software or hardware automation AI.

@dennissalisbury496 5 ай бұрын

So these satellites are 4K Cell Phones?

@cedriceric9730 4 ай бұрын

😂 yeah but dont be surprised if your cell phone turns out to be more advanced

@thijsvandercaaij5968 4 ай бұрын

But a whole lot less spaceproof@@cedriceric9730

@JustinHurley-cf6un 4 ай бұрын

With face time

@Waitwhat469 5 ай бұрын

I think the great firewall is a good example of what I worry about as part of the "neutrality" of the company. To quote another person, neutrality is expensive, a cost born of sweat, blood, and military preparedness.

@katherandefy 4 ай бұрын

A lot policy-wise needs to be in place and probably systems as well to mitigate for potential negative effects on safety, terrorism, etc. This is a huge shift.

@Sam-bh3ds 5 ай бұрын

real time Gaza destruction would be filtered by the powers

@sumerchand1677 5 ай бұрын

👍 Informative

@Afkmuds 4 ай бұрын

was just looking for this

@apollovacademy6066 4 ай бұрын

That joke was classic. 😂

@jovictor9064 4 ай бұрын

The Flat Earth debate will be settled once and for all lol

@LachlanKent 4 ай бұрын

love the idea of Earth LLM

@tracysurf 5 ай бұрын

Toby's vocal fry is killing me.

@juanestonia7213 5 ай бұрын

Get those tiny satellites and check out the city on the dark side of the moon.

@freepadz6241 5 ай бұрын

There are already satelites orbiting the moon. Have been for decades. And guess what, no city.

@Figure-A 3 ай бұрын

⁠@@freepadz6241there are 6 lunar satellites capturing the moon in very high resolution, yet the best map the public can access looks like it’s from 2003. Photoshop came out in 1980. If there was a city up there, we simple civilians would be the very last people on the planet to know about it. Everyone thinks it’s a conspiracy until they realize theres a group of legitimate, serious, and professional people in very high places that know this is being covered up and are actively pushing back. Our governments *are* oppressing us. Do not be deceived by these people.

@jatigre1 4 ай бұрын

What is taking so long? We should have "The eye in the sky" for a very long time now, helping saving lives, finding missing people, solving murders...

@jimallen8238 4 ай бұрын

While I get the sentiment, it assumes altruism and ignores economic and geopolitical incentives. Launching and managing satellites is capital intensive and managing them is no small technical and administrative task. If you’re not an NGO, how do you make that work financially without a strong profit motive? Saving people, flora, and fauna doesn’t pay the bills.

@jatigre1 4 ай бұрын

I agree, the government is usually the one footing the bill.@@jimallen8238

@whateverrandomnumber 4 ай бұрын

Open source? How romantic. If someone's paying, they want something back in their pockets. Don't confuse "free to use" with "open source".

@ernestogallanongo5822 5 ай бұрын

take a shot every time you hear "you know"

@B_r_u_c_e 4 ай бұрын

Obviously a conspiracy of HDD manufacturers.

@Afkmuds 4 ай бұрын

i need open source satellitesssss

@elnorton7113 16 күн бұрын

what image you get from GAZA 😅

@ruffmeow9893 5 ай бұрын

Buy stock in Planet Labs now. I just did. Cray.

@Pacanata 5 ай бұрын

Why Planet Labs?

@JesbaamSanchez 5 ай бұрын

@@Pacanata the company itself is utilizing microsats/cubesats to do the same job as conventional satellites but at a much reduce cost and ofc they have AI/Machine learning capabilities that would be beneficial in Geo surveillance

@ruffmeow9893 5 ай бұрын

it's in the video@@Pacanata

@valdomero738 4 ай бұрын

Opened shorts and bought puts. Ok.

@joshuaburgess4730 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 how much you lose? Its steadily going down!

@mathieucaron4957 4 ай бұрын

Forever ? 😄 You believe in unicorns.

@alesh2275 4 ай бұрын

Who does their launches?

@freethink 4 ай бұрын

Looks like SpaceX did launches for Planet Labs in Jan 2023: www.planet.com/pulse/36-planet-superdoves-successfully-launch-on-spacexs-falcon-9-rocket/

@TankDavisConquers 4 ай бұрын

I hate how content creators and writers study for a story for a few weeks then act as if they are knowledgeable.

@twolaneasphalt4459 5 ай бұрын

Uh, you do understand that the Pentagon/IC's constellation of spy imaging/geospatial satellites have been doing this for many decades, and at resolutions that are, well, classified. Commercial imaging and geospatial capabilities are limited to one- and one-half-meter imagery, the use of which was declassified back in the mid- to late-90s.

@perc-ai 4 ай бұрын

yeah the govt mostly spends on cyber (complete surveillance on all packets at the ISP layer)

@markgreen2170 4 ай бұрын

when i was a kid in the 70s ...they said they could, 'read the license plate numbers, of the cars parked at the kremlin'

@Ashley-be3wj 3 ай бұрын

L?😂

@rev8739 5 ай бұрын

4:20 I think he meant Alaska and not Africa. On something like the Azimuthal Projection, Africa would be negligible. But, the most common projection is the Mollweide one. That one makes Alaska, Russia, Argentina, and Antarctica extremely small. The most significant challenge is taking a three-dimensional shape like a sphereoid and turning it into a flattened plane...

@CartoClips 5 ай бұрын

I’m glad someone else had to make that comment and I understand he probably has a view that most people have but if you’ve had to mess around with coordinate systems a comment like that will just drive you crazy.

@jimallen8238 4 ай бұрын

I don’t think he misspoke. It was likely a reference to the land mass distortion caused by use of traditional Mercator projection maps that rely on spherical to cylindrical projection. Mercator maps disproportionately depict areas farther from the equator as larger. The African continent has a land area of 11.7 million sq miles - enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, combined. Still, it doesn’t appear that way with a Mercator map. If you are familiar with the Peters Projection map, you would note that it attempts to depict areas on the map in direct physical proportion to their measured land mass. The Winkel Tripel projection is another alternative that attempts to reduce the skew.

@Afkmuds 4 ай бұрын

cool

@VictorDiaz-do3cb 4 ай бұрын

Satellite pictures of UFOs

@danielbwacaiman7934 4 ай бұрын

The guy with the patent should benefit from his/her intellectual propperty.

@Andre-qo5ek 4 ай бұрын

wait till the tick tock -ers ( and frankly any advisor ) doing videos where they go out and get their marketing branded on to these photos.... or just any other troll.

@ava_qira 5 ай бұрын

@ostrov11 4 ай бұрын

... а еще, йопта, можно смотреть где танчики , у кого мало демократии.

@jslugger960 4 ай бұрын

Big brother is that you 😢

@cameronf3343 4 ай бұрын

Let’s be real. All that this’ll be used for is to make it even easier for appraisers to squeeze an extra $100/yr out of somebody for building a junky toolshed in their yard no matter where they are.

@liquidsonly 4 ай бұрын

So where are these "open source" data?

@freethink 4 ай бұрын

You can find it on Planet's website here: www.planet.com/gallery/

@Vibetothepain 4 ай бұрын

Google earth live.

@wakematta 5 ай бұрын

The head of social media should stop smoking 😅

@kevinlarrimore 4 ай бұрын

Big brother on steroids?

@RonLWilson 5 ай бұрын

If one knows when the satellites will overfly a region they can plan a trip so that they will never be seen in that they can schedule to be under cover during all satellite overflights. As such one can imagine that might be one of the early apps that come out as this is fielded that plan such routes and identify places where one can be under cover during satellite over flights.

@RonLWilson 5 ай бұрын

BTW, this also might drive the final nail in the coffin of the flat earth movement!

@rkdbaj 5 ай бұрын

Laser kills cameras

@woxoom 5 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@RonLWilsonMost of the Flat Earth appeal is derived from skepticism - if they cannot see how the images are produced, or where the satellites are, they will never be content.

@non-human3072 4 ай бұрын

Laim...

@withershin 5 ай бұрын

You guys are cute. Never opened ArcMap in your life I'm guessing. There's decades worth of research on this subject. Remember when the picture of your birthday party was 2 megapixels? Does your birthday look better in 8K? Or are you paying to store photos no one cares about? Go learn the math. Real-time? Good luck on that pipe dream. You'll make an easily persuaded VP one day.

@aryamanshukla2382 5 ай бұрын

The only issue is the resolution. My biggest challenge, working on my project has been to get the Satellitel spectral image data for less than 1 km resolution (not pixellations). ArcGis doesn't have it and Nasa's Earthdata does not zoom in any further than 1km coverage. If 1 meter is the scale, that would be quite an asset!

@fpvnwv1493 5 ай бұрын

I think they're already there lol

@aryamanshukla2382 5 ай бұрын

Not on open source. We have teams looking into it and these are at the US national level (Society for Science).

@EarthCreature. 4 ай бұрын

You're clearly a half wit. Planet Labs has the largest dataset on Planet earth stretching back 20 years. They don't need micron-level detail to be the leader in Geospatial data either. Companies like blacksky will never catch up to them and will likely be absorbed through a discount liquidation in the next 10 years.

@EVtripper 5 ай бұрын

Mother Earth Can see herself now! Humans are the eyes and ears of the planet, but will we also spread reproductive rockets?

@woxoom 5 ай бұрын

Reproductive rockets?

@EVtripper 5 ай бұрын

@@woxoom Ai Babies in space...

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 4 ай бұрын

Just so you know, there are some humans who are literally functionally incapable of understanding metaphors. I don't know if it's something caused by religion or just basic ignorance, but it's best not to use such complicated and nuanced metaphor for fear of others taking you entirely literally. Understanding this fact about certain people can help you understand how things can be so broken: it's almost like an empathy void, or something; a deficit that affects function. It's best to be literal and concise when debating our future and the access we've acquired.

@vineleak7676 4 ай бұрын

4:23 That is not human bias wtf... It is the mercator projection, you have to deform the map to project it on a plane... This guy has spend to much time on facebook XD

@jimallen8238 4 ай бұрын

This is a tangent, but whatevs. The Mercator projection is one way to deskew a sphere for planar presentation. It relies on mapping a sphere onto a cylinder. Unfortunately, though it enabled better sea navigation, it distorts relative land mass area the farther you go from the equator. It’s just math. This had the side effect of reinforcing Eurocentric geopolitical thought because Europe (and Canada by the way) appears larger on Mercator maps than its land mass warrants in comparison to Africa, for instance. It is not really debatable that there were self-reinforcing cultural benefits for Europeans to continue using Mercator maps. Nothing to get up in arms about. We all use biases every day. I don’t think anyone implied evil intent. Funny thought: if you could patent eyeglasses that made everyone wearing them see you as taller than you really are and made tall people look shorter than you, would you have an issue if every optometrist on the planet prescribed your glasses?

@the_anomaly_channel 5 ай бұрын

they are going to talk about the flat, non rotating earth that all the NASA tech documents mentioned ?

@user-ke6bm2kc8g 5 ай бұрын

I like that this show is designed for young children. This is the first episode peddled to me, so I'm not sure if all are I'm not interested in finding out.

@taurianferguson 5 ай бұрын

No offense but this just seems like Google Maps with a higher refresh rate. There might be some significant ideas that required a this rate but i'm not expecting it to change the way we view the world.

@jimallen8238 4 ай бұрын

Add in multi spectral and the economic projections that can be made from these data sets and you have a gold mine. Every commodities trader on the planet would kill for this data.

@taurianferguson 4 ай бұрын

@@jimallen8238 I guess I just don't get it. It just doesn't seem that revolutionary. Maybe AI can parse the images and make interesting observations but they should have been able to do that with the existing mapping satellites. This seems more evolutionary than revolutionary.

@Dave-hq8xg 4 ай бұрын

Dude…Africa being “small” on common maps is not because of “human bias”. It’s because of a mapping method called “Mercator Projection” which is a way to represent a 3 dimensional sphere (the Globe) in 2 dimensions. You need to check your own biases….