Planet Explorer updates:¶

New ✨¶

• New Explorer UI that brings a better user experience with relocated tools.
• Color Enhance for basemaps
  • Auto Enhance, Snow, and Desert modes
  • Custom enhancement via brightness, contrast, and saturation controls
• Additional Spectral Indices have been promoted from a Lab to the tool
  • NDWI (using NIR), MTVI2, VARI, MSAVI2
• You no longer need to draw an AOI to compare two basemaps

New ✨¶

• You can now preview our upcoming UI and feature updates at https://www.planet.com/products/explorer/. This site will be up for a limited time.
• You can now pay for a basemap streaming license, online with your credit card. Explorer will include prompts to redirect you or you can visit https://www.planet.com/purchase.

Bug Fixes 🐛¶

• GeoJSON files that only have a geometry defined, without a Feature Collection definition now work as expected.
• Our Welcome dialog was causing some confusion as it alluded to our trial regardless of account status, we've made some updates!

New ✨¶

• Additional visualization indexes (e.g. NDWI) are now available through a Lab.

Improvements 🙌🏻¶

• Explorer's User Guide is now available from our Help Menu.
• The analytic_sr bundle and its assets is now available to order for PSOrthoTile and REOrthoTile items

New (ish) ✨¶

• Orders v2 is now the sole provider of orders in Explorer for all users.
  • As announced last week, only those users that are part of the Beta Clipping + Raster Ops Program will have the ability to clip via the UI. For help with this please reach out in #product-support as it is not managed by Explorer.

Deprecation ☠️¶

• With the release of Orders v2 in Explorer comes the deprecation of the Orders v0 UI
  • All orders previously made with orders v0 can be accessed via the account page for download and/or the API

New ✨¶

• We heard that you missed the Satellite layer when viewing imagery. We now have an option to turn it on!
  • We’ve added a new menu that allows you to toggle a Satellite view as well as the Street labels.

Improvements 🙌🏻¶

• The Filters panel has gotten a face-lift, amongst other improvements
  • There are new grouped categories and they can be collapsed so that it is easier to navigate and see just what you want or need.
  • The sliders now have a way to enter the values via a text field
  • The instrument filter now uses checkboxes, so that it is easier to select more than one instrument at a time.
  • You can reset the filters to the default values by clicking “Clear All”
  • In order to apply the filters you must click on “Apply Filters”