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Ryan McNeill
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Reuters deputy editor, data journalism. Europe, Middle East, Africa. #okstate alum....... send tips: [email protected]
I follow the same rule - natch - except for A&M.
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Yikes
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
KLCC Level 4 - Room 405
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Needs a Dukes of Hazzard voiceover
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The moment he realized he’d made a terrible mistake
November 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Wonder if this works with SF?
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
More like slay.
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
And this isn't meant to be an ad. I think there's sometimes a tendency, at least among journalists working with satellite imagery, to immediately go for the highest resolution possible. But there's an awful lot of stories inside those daily 3.5m multispectral collects.
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Yes, the very high resolution imagery were key in confirming small details. But the near-daily cadence of PlanetScope enabled us to identify start and stop dates of activity, create vector datasets tracking the pace of reopening trenches at Qutayfah, as well as filling of new ones at Dhumair.
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Our analyses of the Qutayfah and Dhumair mass graves consisted of more than 500 images (likely much higher when you count the use of streaming tiles) and the overwhelming majority were PlanetScope.
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A few months ago, a leading figure in the commercial satellite biz, who did not work for Planet, told me that PlanetScope imagery is the most underused dataset in remote sensing. Consider me a cosigner. Here's why:
October 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Read our investigation published Friday, detailing our discovery of an enormous mass grave in the Syrian desert and the two-year conspiracy behind it….

www.reuters.com/investigates...
Assad-era plot to hide dead bodies turned Syria desert into mass grave
For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying to hide evidence of atrocities.
www.reuters.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM