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- 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 usage reports
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Issue Summary: In an effort to improve internal and external auditing of subscription results, we have extended the TTL (time to live) of results within the Subscriptions API. Previously, regardless of a subscription’s status, results were not accessible from the API after 30 days. As of this change any newly created results will be accessible for at least 30 days. This still …
Improvements 🙌🏻¶
- Users can now select their preferred file format when they first start their order. Previously, users had to select a file format for each asset (i.e. Visual or Surface Reflectance 4band). The default option is a GeoTIFF and should work for a majority of use cases. Please note: this file format will apply to the entire order.
- Users can now opt out …
Looking for help getting started with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) API Tiles specification? This primer can get you going.
Planet’s new CLI has no builtin GIS capabilities other than what Planet’s APIs provide. To help make more sophisticated workflows possible, Planet is releasing a new package of command line programs for manipulating streams of GeoJSON features.