Robert Simmon
Robert Simmon is a Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Planet Labs, a commercial Earth observation company in San Francisco. Prior to moving in 2014, he was employed as a Senior Program Analyst at Goddard Space Flight Center where he was affiliated with the Climate and Radiation Laboratory and the NASA Earth Observatory. While serving as a Lead Data Visualizer and Information Designer at this division of NASA, Simmon is most notable for his visualization of the Western Hemisphere of planet Earth. Well known as the Blue Marble, this image that would become the default wallpaper on the first iPhone in 2007. Furthermore, in Simmon's field of information visualization, through his work with NASA, he strove to "help people better understand how the Earth works."
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Planet Labs
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Earth observation
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NASA Earth Observatory
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Data Visualizer
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Robert Simmon
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