✨ Update to Planet Basemaps ✨¶

Planet implemented an improved normalization approach for surface reflectance basemaps that use Sentinel-2 as a normalization target.

The entire Sentinel-2 imagery catalog between 2017 and 2023 is processeed using the Framework for Operational Radiometric Correction for Environmental monitoring (FORCE) method then created monthly-cadence, multi-year composites by estimating the 30th percentile for each pixel location using only cloud-free data.

New Cloud Mask Launched ✨¶

• Planet introduces a new Cloud Mask, UDM2.1, which significantly improves upon the accuracy of the previous mask, UDM2.0. For full details, see our updated developer center page.

All unrectified PlanetScope images will be published 🙌🏻¶

Starting on July 19, 2023 Planet will publish all unrectified PlanetScope images. For more information on what this means, read our Publishing All Unrectified PlanetScope Imagery knowledgebase article.

Decommissioned SkySat Planned Re-entry Completed 🙌🏻¶

On June 26, the Planet Mission Operations team managed the final operations and reentry of a decommissioned SkySat satellite. As a part of our commitment to responsible space use, bringing this SkySat down from space ensures that it does not pose a risk to other spacecraft or further contribute to space debris.  

As a reminder, this is a planned re-entry and does not have any notable impact on our high-resolution fleet’s capacity or customers’ tasking abilities, because Planet’s Agile Aerospace approach optimizes capabilities around a constellation of satellites, and the team has continued to innovate and improve our tasking capabilities across the program. We are able to apply learnings from the SkySat fleet as we look forward to launching the upcoming in-space tech demo of high-resolution Pelicans in the near future.

Planet API¶

• Quick search API - Removed unimplemented strict parameter from public documentation.