Imagery Products
Basemaps and Mosaics
- Use of a new filter to reduce over-saturated scenes.
- Improved water color target to avoid coastline artifacts.
- WMTS basemaps service now provides a
latest layer that points to the most recently available timelapse.
Planet Explorer
- You must now have a Planet account in order to use Planet Explorer.
Planet Explorer
- All SkySat imagery and products are now available in Planet Explorer.
Imagery Products
- Added surface reflectance (
analytic_sr asset type) asset to the PlanetScope item type.
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.
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.