Seeing Data From Space

Will Marshall is the co-founder and CEO of Planet, a private company with a fleet of tiny satellites that takes photos of the entire Earth every day. Will’s problem: How do you turn all those images into useful data? In today’s episode we talk about shooting smartphones into space, turning a million-dollar antenna into a thousand-dollar paperclip, and how to count every tree in the Amazon. If you’d like to keep up with the most recent news from this and other Pushkin podcasts, be sure to subscribe to our email list.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.