After you define an area of interest (AOI), a panel appears on the left side of your Planet Explorer page. From here, you can search for data using filters, date ranges, and imagery types.
Cadence Options¶
You can choose your imagery cadence with the following options:
- Daily imagery appear in Scenes
- Other cadences appear in Basemaps
Filters Options¶
You can change your Filter settings to narrow your image results or make updates.
Filters are grouped according to imagery capabilities, PlanetScope filters, environmental conditions, and other attributes. The groups are collapsible for easy navigation.
After you select your filters, click Apply Filters. To start and begin with new filters, elect Clear Filters.
NOTE
To use filters with environmental conditions, enter the exact values or use the slider.
Date Ranges¶
You can select the date range for your imagery search results. Select the Dates icon and select the date ranges to filter your search for one or more date ranges. The days are UTC by default.
To easily compare results that are months apart, select multiple date ranges. You can enter one range, then click Add another range to enter a second range. You can add as many ranges as you need. Click Done to display the imagery within each range.
When you click Dates, an interactive Edit Date Ranges window appears. You have the option to remove the current date range or add additional dates of interest.
To make changes, click Done in the bottom right corner.
Search Results¶
After you select your filters, the list of search results display imagery based on your parameters.
- Each search result represents a group of available imagery.
- Each search result appears as a thumbnail image and includes the date of the image, the percentage of area coverage for your area of interest, and the pixel resolution.
- If the image is partially over-rectified, an icon notification appears. Partially rectified imagery is considered test quality.
If you click the arrow from the search result, the tooltip displays View Details. This expands the grouping and displays all images taken on that date and grouped by satellite. You will see an icon with the instrument filter as shorthand for each satellite constellation. You can inspect imagery more granularly at this step by selecting and deselecting entire groups of imagery or single images.
You can click the information symbol (i) to see metadata about that specific image.
Overlay Layers Toggle¶
The toolstack tools located on the bottom right hand corner of the screen include an overlay toggle button. Use this button to adjust what you see on the map.
If you click the Street Labels toggle, you can turn the text labels on and off on the map. If the indicator is teal, the toggle is on.
If you click the Satellite View toggle, you can turn the contextual satellite layer on and off on the map.
NOTE
The contextual layer does not affect the number of tiles streamed.
Zoom Tools¶
The Zoom tools stack at the bottom right hand of the page enable you to navigate throughout your map view.
The + and - allow you to zoom out. If you hover over these arrows, the current zoom level displays. The current zoom level and how it translates into meters and pixels appears at the bottom of the screen.
The globe pictograph gives you context about where you are looking. The teal dot represents your current focus.
Additional zoom tools allow you to quickly zoom into an area of interest or out to the whole world. From left to right, the tools are:
- Zoom to area of interest is also called the rubberband zoom. This option allows you to draw a rectangle to zoom into an area. The rectangle is not permanent and is an indicator of what extent to zoom into.
- Zoom out to World enables you to zoom back to the largest zoom level.
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