BASF Digital Farming has expanded its collaboration with earth data provider Planet Labs. Planet Labs data will be employed in BASF Digital Farming products and services in its xarvio portfolio.

Planet operates a major constellation of Earth observation imaging satellites. It provides near-daily data and insights regarding global patterns of environmental and industrial change.

BASF is expanding use of Planet’s Crop Biomass Planetary Variable product, a cloud-free, analysis-ready data feed, combining radar and optical signals to help agronomists and farmers better understand field status. BASF is also increasing its use of Planet’s monitoring data product, PlanetScope. This provides near-daily imagery of all agricultural fields around the world at 3.5 m resolution.

“We are in a critical time for sustainable agriculture. High-cadence satellite data can provide revolutionary solutions to advance precision farming, yield estimation, and seed selection,” said Will Marshall, Planet Co-founder and CEO. “By expanding this strategic partnership with BASF, a global leader in the digital farming industry, we look forward to powering novel and effective tools to enable growers to get the best crop yields in the most sustainable and efficient ways.”

“At BASF Digital Farming, our focus is on providing farmers and advisors with innovative products and services from xarvio that make crop production more efficient, profitable, and sustainable. Using Planet’s satellite data and Planetary Variable products we can continue to deliver measurable benefits, and through the expanded partnership we can scale that impact,” said Dr. Thomas Schilling, Managing Director and Global Head of Platform Engineering, BASF Digital Farming.