January 01 2017
Planet API
- Data API - Increased activation and download rate limit to 5 requests per second.
- Data API - Added
md5_digest field to the assets endpoint for use in tracking asset version changes and corrupted downloads.
- Data API - Added
strip_id field to the PlanetScope item metadata for use in associating items to collections.
- Data API - Added
anomalous_pixels field to the PlanetScope and RapidEye items metadata which indicates the percentage of pixels that may be problematic.
Imagery Products
- Improved sharpening algorithms have been applied to PSScene3Band, PSOrthoTile and REOrthoTile item types.
- Added acquisition time in UTC as
TIFFTAG_DATETIME tag in PlanetScope GeoTIFF assets.
Planet Explorer
- Planetscope 4-band scenes now available in Planet Explorer for easier access to NIR band.
December 01 2016
- Quick search API - Bug fix: Searches using permission filters not returning the correct results. Searches now return data that can be downloaded.
- Data API - Added
/thumb endpoint to items. Each item now allows direct access to a down-sampled preview of the data.
- Data API - Disassociated activation and download throttling. There used to be a single rate limit for activating and downloading assets, but Planet has split this into two separate rates that can be controlled separately. This should give API users greater control over how they access data and apply backoff strategies to prevent 429 error codes.
- Data API - Increased download rate limit to 2 requests per second.
- Data API - Bug fix: Removed incorrectly-advertised analytic asset from some items. Not all PSScene3Band and PSScene4Band items have analytic assets.