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Planet

Planet

Daily earth data to see change and make better decisions

Planet provides daily satellite data that helps businesses, governments, researchers, and journalists understand the physical world and take action.

Planet Labs
San Francisco, US

Description

Planet revolutionized the earth observation industry with the highest frequency satellite data commercially available.

Planet’s data is transforming the way companies and governments use satellite imagery data, delivering insights at the daily pace of change on earth. This differentiated data set powers decision-making in a myriad of industries including agriculture, forestry, mapping, and government. Our fleet of over 200 earth imaging satellites, the largest in history, images the whole Earth land mass daily.

Planet helps you anticipate what's next.

Learn more here.

Specifications

General

Year of introduction

2014

Deliverable raster products

Raw Imagery, Orthorectified imagery, DEM, Timelapse mosaics

Options for delivery

Individual Files, Maps API, Ortho Tiles or GeoJSON

Satellites or constellations of delivered products

Planet operates the PlanetScope and RapidEye Earth-imaging constellations.

Deliverable vector products [2D and 3D]

aircraft or satellite

Continents

Image corrections

Proces of geometric correction

- 1: Internal detector geometry which combines the two sensor chipsets into a virtual array. - 2: Registration of all bands together to ensure all bands line up with each other correctly.

Image sharpening methods

Unsharp mask (sharpening filter) applied before the warp process.

Sensor corrected

Y

Proces of sensor correction

Optical distortions caused by sensor optics.

Radiometrically corrected

Y

Process of radiometric and/or atmospheric correction

- 1: Correction of relative differences of the radiometric response between detectors. - 2: Non-responsive detector filling which fills null values from detectors that are no longer responding. - 3: Conversion to absolute radiometric values based on calibration coefficients.

Imagery Specifications

Spectral band types

Red, Green, Blue, Red edge, Near-infrared

Spectral bands [specify wavelengths]

Blue: 455 – 515 nm. - Green: 500 – 590 nm. - Red: 590 – 670 nm. - NIR: 780 – 860 nm.

Dynamic range of RGB image [bit depth]

16

Dynamic range of other products [specify bit depth and spectral band]

12

Data formats of imagery

Revisit time and delivery

Revisit time for defined data products

1 day

Resolution and Accuracy

Resolution of RGB imagery [best GSD in centimeters]

300

Resolution of other bands [GSD in centimeters]

500

Geolocation accuracy [RMSE at nadir in centimeters]

1000

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