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Tracking traffic with Planet data

Tracking traffic with Planet data

Identifying traffic patters using machine learning and high resolution data

Feb 21, 2023
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Thanks for reading Earthbound! In this newsletter, we talk about the latest research in earth observation, with a focus on sustainability and climate. We also provide tutorials on data science, R and Python with a focus on geospatial applications.

What Causes Traffic Congestion? | Geotab

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.

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