Tracking traffic with Planet data

Identifying traffic patters using machine learning and high resolution data

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I’ll soon be using a lot of Planet data in my work, and one my jobs will be focused on using their data to identify changes in mobility, which led me to find a paper called "Spatial Temporal Analysis of Traffic Patterns during the COVID-19 Epidemic by Vehicle Detection Using Planet Remote-Sensing Satellite Images," which does just that using the same dataset. The following paper works through their methodology, and you can read the paper in full here.