Documentation
Browse user guides, documentation and full API references for Planet's APIs, GIS Integrations, Imagery and Apps
API Doc quick links:
- Data: search for, filter & download Planet imagery
- Analytics: Access analytic products derived from Planet imagery
- Basemaps: Access to Planet's mosaiced basemap services
- Tile Services: Planet's XYZ & WMTS tile protocol services
- Tasking: Create, edit, cancel and manage SkySat point collection orders
- Orders: Create processing pipelines with analysis-ready data
- Subscriptions: Subscribe to continuous cloud delivery of imagery
- Reports: Download useage reports
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What's New
November 16 2022
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Improvements 🙌🏻
- You can now clip Hosted Data orders if you have clipping permissions.
- You can re-order a previous order from the Orders tab.
- When searching for a specific address, a pin marker indicates a single point at the searched location.
Bug Fixes 🐛
- When in compare mode, compare cards did not correctly display the timestamp.
- Searching for locations could result in a default selection of …
October 20 2022
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Improvements 🙌🏻
KMZ File Support
The Planet Explorer Importer now supports KMZ files to specify an area of interest (AOI). KMZ files are Zip-compressed .KML files that store map locations viewable in various geographic information systems (GIS) applications, including Planet Explorer.
October 06 2022
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Planet imagery is data-rich, using 12 bits per pixel. Web browsers only display 8 bits per pixel. So how about using NumpyTiles and those extra 4 bits to do remote sensing in the browser?
August 31 2022
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STAC-ing up! We gathered statistics on over 550 million assets. Check out the summary of our project and register to be included in our next crawl.