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Smaller lighter and faster. This is what's happening in the imaging WORLD here on earth like with drone technology. But one tech firm here in San Francisco is going even higher into orbit with a fleet of tiny satellites. Smart investors are profiting by looking down on the earth with their eyes above the skies three to one. Watch this. They're called doves shot out from the International Space Station and they're small less than a foot long but the telescope cameras are powerful . This is what we get high resolution photos of anything on the earth's surface from West Texas oil fields to Chinese power plants and Shin Jong and Argentine lithium mines typically downloadable in one to two hours. It's all based here. Planet Labs Will Marshall is CEO over here we've got our mission control area over here. We actually designed the satellites on the computers here. We actually build and construct them downstairs. Everything is done in-house. 13 iterations of the Dove built here since 2013. This is the real deal. The real deal. And so the front two thirds of that is an optics. So it's the telescope that looks down at the ground so it actually flies with that point as well. So it's it's going like caress solar panels tested here power each dove. Each has radio in the front wings that unfurl in orbit and durability to survive a 200 day shock low which is equivalent dropping a satellite from here onto a marble floor and compared to NASA's hulking satellites . They're cheaper hundreds to thousands of times less than the satellites they're up there today. That makes Planet Labs photos accessible and affordable. It's business intelligence . And investors can profit if they are a hedge fund in New York . We can help them because we can track the output from all the soy fields every single day around the world. You can also see right in here. Robert Simmons as plant labs last pair of Ise before an image goes public. This one just came in of the Mekong River in Cambodia where there's been some recent flooding . It's now very brown versus like the VIX water just now. Right . So green blue water like you would expect a clear river to be and then you had extensive rainfall upstream. So you have a baseline for comparison Simone's favorite comparison is this from Brazilian sugar cane fields 24 hours apart before it can be harvested. You need to burn the sugarcane that actually happened the day after that original image was taken. So one of the things that we can do with this imagery that's acquired every day which is really unprecedented is get a very fine grained picture of changes that are occurring. It's watching this daily change that's valuable to investors whether in agriculture commodities or transport. Today Planet Labs is partnering up with more than a dozen companies that uses its images some secret some not like companies in agricultural space such as Wilbur Ellis and Wolpert. We have companies signed on mining in three verticals. One is consumer mapping. Another is agriculture and others resellers the falcon has cleared the tower but it hasn't been smooth sailing. On June 28 the Planet Labs lost eight doves when the Space X Falcon 9 exploded over Cape Canaveral. And we have exactly eight months earlier that main engines that 100 percent. Another disaster in Tory's rocket over Wallops Island Virginia 26 dogs lost part of the challenge in this industry is dealing with the risk of launch. Our strategy is to put satellites on lots of different papers launch vehicles from lots of different countries and then the chances of them all not working are really really low despite the risks. Support has been strong since its 2010 founding Planet Labs has received more than 180 million dollars in venture capital over three rounds. Draper Fisher journalists and lead investor in Space X and Tesla led series a Russian billionaire Yuri Milner led Series B Data Collective which loves big data led Series C Now Planet Labs focus is delivering on its imaging contracts by the end of 2016. It wants 150 dubs taking photos from orbit the largest constellation of earth imaging satellites in human history each a shoebox sized eye in the sky .