• Mosaics API - Added XYZ tile services for items in the Data API.

Planet API

• Data API - Added ground_control to field PSScene3Band, PSScene4Band, PSOrthoTile and REOrthoTile item meta.
• Data API - Added width parameter to item thumbnail endpoint.
• Data API - Added thumbnail to the links array in item responses.
• Data API - Python API client and command-line interface tools have been released for users developing applications in Python.
• Data API - JavaScript API client has been released for users developing applications in JavaScript.
• Mosaics API - Planet Basemaps are now available as a stand-alone XYZ Web Service.

Imagery Products

• Added visual asset to the Sentinel2L1C item type.
• Full monthly basemaps now available.

Planet Explorer

• Added basemap compare tool, allowing you to compare two timelapse mosaics side-by-side.

Planet API

• Data API - Added quality_category field to the PlanetScope item metadata as documented in the product specification guide.
• Data API - Increased download rate limit to 15 requests per second.

Imagery Products

• Basemap color-balancing techniques added to improving color balancing, scene line minimization and removing artifacts due to snow and clouds.

Planet Explorer

• Planet Explorer is open to the public!
• Planet explorer now has improved timeline manipulations allowing users to easily step through our automated time-lapse basemaps.

• Data API - Added standard terrain-corrected Landsat 8 scenes (item type: Landsat8L1G).
• Data API - Added level 1C Sentinel-2 scenes (item type: Sentinel2L1C).
• Data API - Bug fix: Removed assets from the /assets endpoint when the user does not have download permissions.

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.