News and Stories
Winner of the Ocean Data Challenge
The World Economic Forum's open innovation platform UpLink has selected planblue as one of the winners of its Ocean Data Challenge. This awesome honour is a great support in the journey to scale up.
10.3.2023
Where to Find Us in 2023
We will be presenting, attending, and tabling at a variety of events throughout 2023, and would love to take the opportunity to connect with interested stakeholders.
1.3.2023
Happy World Seagrass Day!
Happy World Seagrass Day! Seagrass meadows are one of the most important and overlooked ecosystems on our planet. They provide a vital habitat for a vast array of marine life, from tiny plankton to majestic sea turtles. Not only do seagrass meadows foster biodiversity, they also play a critical role in maintaining ocean health by stabilizing sediments, absorbing carbon dioxide, and producing oxygen.
11.11.2022
High-Quality Blue Carbon Principles
Planblue is excited to announce the launch of the High-Quality Blue Carbon Principles and Guidance, a document developed by the Meridian Institute, co-sponsored by Salesforce, World Economic Forum's Friends of Ocean Action, Ocean Risk Allaince, Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy.
24.10.2022
Field Tests for Marine Plastic Detection
After almost a year of work within the MtecPla Project, it was finally time for a field test. Planblue took the DiveRay, our underwater satellite monitoring system, to a lake in northern Germany called Hemmoor.
15.6.2022
Planblue receives EIC Grant & Geospatial World Award
We know more about Mars than we know about the seafloor. Because flora and fauna play a crucial role for our climate and are a large food and job provider we need innovative technology to monitor their health.
6.4.2022
Hardware Development: DiveRay
In November 2019, our CTO Guy returned to the island of Guam in the Western Pacific. Together with Prof. Tom Schils and his team, Guy monitored the island’s coral reefs with the new and improved planblue technology.
6.4.2022
Software Development: FieldGuide & SeafloorAtlas
Planblue is committed to protect our oceans. By providing easy-to-understand seafloor maps we enable decisionmakers to find solutions for global problems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
15.7.2021
Underwater Hackathon 2021
After spending much of 2021 in the home office, our team decided to plan its very first hackathon with the aim to work on our process from data acquisition to data analysis. This was the first time in 2021 that the whole team saw each other in a long time without the help of technology – to say we were excited is a bit of an understatement.
22.6.2021
Pool Tests for Marine Plastic Detection
After half a year of development and planning within the MtecPla Project, we were excited to finally test the capabilities of our detection systems with specially prepared sediment plastic mixtures under controlled laboratory conditions.
23.11.2020
Project Start 'MtecPla'
In the research project ‘MtecPla’, planblue, together with the University of Stuttgart, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Kurt Synowzik Werkzeug u. Maschinenbau (KSW), is advancing its technology further and taking marine litter monitoring to the next level.
15.9.2020
Technology Demo - Portugal, Sept. 2020
We are very excited to officially announce our technology demo in Cascais, Portugal in September 2020. Together with our partners Municipality of Cascais and SeaForester we will host several
7.2.2020
Joost at TEDx Bremerhaven
Our CEO Joost den Haan gave a TEDx Talk recently and it is now online. Go check it out to find out more about his passion for the seafloor and why he believes that studying and understanding it is crucial to change the way we interact with the underwater world.
15.11.2019
Return to the University of Guam (NASA EPSCoR)
In November 2019, our CTO Guy returned to the island of Guam in the Western Pacific. Together with Prof. Tom Schils and his team, Guy monitored the island’s coral reefs with the new and improved planblue technology.
26.11.2018
University of Guam (NASA Geocore)
In September 2018, Joost visited the island of Guam (USA). Together with Prof. Tom Schils from the University of Guam, he scanned coral reefs using the PlanBlue technology. This project was executed as part of the NASA Geocore program.
23.7.2018
Seafloor restoration in Southern France
In July 2018, we monitored seafloor restoration efforts in Monaco / Southern France, together with the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and AMPN. This project is supported by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. Follow-up projects are scheduled early 2020.
We combine hyperspectral imaging, precise underwater navigation and AI-based automated data processing to ground-truth aerial and satellite imagery for blue carbon projects.
We made cookies. Would you like some?
We use Google Analytics to improve your website experience and YouTube to show you video content. By clicking "Accept" you are agreeing to the placement and use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy. Thanks for reading and enjoy your stay on our website.