New ✨¶

The subscriptions API now has a parameter called publishing_stages

Planet continues to increase the amount of quality PlanetScope imagery available over many parts of the world. We want to ensure that users receive imagery in a stage of their choice, whether it be a preview, a standard, or a finalized version. We have introduced a new optional parameter to the Subscriptions API called publishing_stages.

Impacts: With this new parameter, users can choose which publishing stage they would like to receive (preview, standard, or finalized). If not included, subscriptions defaults to standard or, if available, finalized.

For more information, see the Subscriptions API documentation on Catalog Source Type.

Improvements 🙌🏻¶

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 maintains previous behavior but clients are likely to view results older than 30 days going forward.

Impacts: This means that, especially for long-running subscriptions, the number of total results returned from the API may increase over its lifetime and may provide results beyond the usual 30 days threshold. Also, please note that this change is not retroactive in that this will only apply to results created since this release.

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 of receiving order status e-mails in the “Order Settings” section at the top.
• Users will now receive STAC metadata files with every order, and can opt out of this in the “Order Settings” section at the top . Read more on STAC metadata here.

Bug Fixes 🐛¶

• We’ve fixed an issue where selecting composite in the Orders UI would sometimes cause the application to crash.

Bug Fixes 🐛¶

• Fixed bug where SkySatVideo was not recognized as a valid data api item type.
• Fixed wheel name to indicate that only python 3 is supported and updated build metadata to indicate that the package is now a stable release and only supports Python 3.

New ✨¶

The Subscriptions API now supports Planetary Variables

We have added support for delivery of Planetary Variables through the Subscriptions API. Users can subscribe to both raster and time series data. With this new feature, customers have access to the data for the following:

• Crop Biomass
• Land Surface Temperature
• Soil Water Content

Impacts: If you are interested in Planetary Variables using the API, create a subscription and specify a Planetary Variable source type. This change requires no action if you have an existing imagery subscription.

Read more about Subscribing to Planetary Variables.