Click on the image above to see an animation of 3-meter natural color PlanetScope imagery collected over Nakhodka, Russia on November 2, 11, 19 and 25, 2021. In the images collected after November 2nd, you can see that Rise Shine has run aground in Vostok Bay just off the coast of Nakhodka as is expected from the media reports. However, you cannot determine if cargo has been lost or if the ship was damaged. What is interesting is that the November 2nd image shows a few lighter features right where Rise Shine ran aground and typically lighter colors close to the shore suggests shallower grounds below the water surface – which makes sense given what happened to this ship. (Images Courtesy: © Planet 2022) In this monthly feature, we span the globe to examine Our Changing Landscape with a time series of medium-resolution PlanetScope satellite imagery. The PlanetScope constellation dates back to 2016 and collects hundreds of millions of square kilometers of 4, 5 and 8-band 3-meter imagery daily! For the last edition of 2021 we checked out flooding in China, and for this first 2022 edition of Our Changing Landscape we stay in Asia with a look at the … Continue reading