Planet Explorer updates:¶

Bug Fixes 🐛¶

• Open water searches now show results as expected

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