Vancouver, B.C. — July 15, 2026 — Metaspectral announced its partnership with Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, to deliver trusted, evidence-based spectral intelligence from Planet Tanager™ hyperspectral data through Metaspectral Clarity.
Planetary Intelligence derived from Planet data is emerging as a new model for understanding the physical world: continuous sensing, real-world data, AI-assisted analysis, and decision support that help organizations respond to what is happening on Earth. The Planet Tanager mission provides rich hyperspectral observations from orbit. Metaspectral Clarity provides the intelligence and infrastructure to convert imagery into science-based spectral evidence for monitoring, change detection, and high-consequence decisions across agriculture, forestry, and environmental monitoring.
Clarity is a hyperspectral analysis platform built to turn Tanager data into science-grade intelligence with an agentic AI orchestrator that guides analysis from data to decision-ready output. Metaspectral’s patented subpixel deep learning for spectral unmixing strengthens the platform’s ability to extract precise signals from complex hyperspectral scenes.
“Tanager gives organizations access to a new level of spectral information from orbit,” said Francis Doumet, CEO of Metaspectral. “Clarity turns that information into intelligence they can trust. Our partnership with Planet is focused on deriving intelligence from hyperspectral analysis-ready data and transforming it into science-based evidence for high-confidence, high-consequence decisions.”
Planetary Intelligence is more than seeing the Earth more frequently. It also depends on the ability to interpret sensor data, compare it with the scientific context, and provide decision-makers with outputs that are reviewable, explainable, and grounded in observable evidence. In that workflow, Tanager provides the hyperspectral observation layer, while Clarity provides the decision-intelligence layer that helps users understand what the data may mean.
Tanager hyperspectral data reveal material and biochemical differences that multispectral imagery cannot resolve with the same precision. Tanager’s broad wavelength coverage provides additional intelligence beyond legacy multispectral imagery, particularly in monitoring contexts where subtle changes in material-level evidence matter.
By combining spectral analysis, explainable AI, and decision-ready outputs, Clarity reports what the data indicate, surfaces strong evidence, identifies where uncertainty remains, and flags indicators for validation. Clarity preserves the chain from spectral observation to analytical workflow results. Evidence trails are essential for organizations using hyperspectral intelligence to support operational decisions, field inspections, sampling programs, and recurring monitoring workflows.
“Tanager expands the scope of what organizations can monitor from orbit by capturing rich hyperspectral observations across broad wavelength ranges,” said Linds Panther, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Planet. “Metaspectral’s Clarity platform translates those observations into spectral intelligence, supporting applications where monitoring, change detection, and decision confidence are critical.”
This is especially important for organizations evaluating hyperspectral data against familiar multispectral approaches. While multispectral imagery is suitable for routine monitoring tasks, hyperspectral data becomes most valuable when decisions require detailed material-level information.
In agriculture, they surface crop and soil indicators before visible symptoms appear. For example, Clarity improves confidence in surface-area signals before field resources are committed. In environmental monitoring, Clarity identifies material signals to prioritize inspection and monitoring workflows.
Metaspectral provides a sandbox environment to demonstrate how Clarity analyzes Tanager Core Imagery available through the Planet Open Data portal and reports decision-ready intelligence based on spectral evidence.
View examples at clarity.metaspectral.com/sandbox/planet.
To learn more about hyperspectral data and auditable intelligence from Metaspectral Clarity, visit www.metaspectral.com.
To learn more about Planet Tanager, visit https://www.planet.com/constellations/tanager/.
