Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro

Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro accelerates geospatial insights generation and the integration of these into mainstream enterprise data and AI workflows by ingesting and managing customers’ private geospatial datasets.

Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro can be leveraged by any organization using geospatial data and insights in business decision making, such as:

• Emergency management and disaster response
• Environmental protection and conservation
• Weather monitoring and forecasting
• Power grid optimization
• Vegetation encroachment management
• Risk modeling
• Precision farming
• Intelligence and surveillance

Microsoft Planetary Computer is currently available and hosts over 140 distinct publicly available geospatial datasets with over 80PB in volume. The focus is to make public datasets easily discoverable and accessible for any user.

Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro is a turnkey geospatial data platform that accelerates geospatial insights generation, and the integration of those insights into mainstream enterprise Data & AI workflows. It provides capabilities to ingest, manage and disseminate customers’ private geospatial datasets today, and will provide more advanced capabilities such as geospatial analytics and integration with mainstream analytics engines like Fabric. 

Microsoft Planetary Computer is available on the Microsoft.com website.

ArcGIS users can natively access their data stored inside Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro with streamlined configuration or authentication.

Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro serves as a data platform for AI models in Microsoft Foundry, enabling the management of both input and output data. A reference architecture and Python notebook illustrating the integration with Aurora, the large-scale foundation model of the Earth atmosphere, are available in this blog post.