UDM and UDM2 files for SkySatCollect items no longer have their nodata value set to 1

Pansharpened and Visual SkySat data product generation has been updated. The scaling of the BGRN pansharpened products is reduced to the scaling of the multispectra (a 16x reduction in DN values)

All bands now have human readable band descriptions (ie red, blue, green, NIR) and the color interpretation for 4-band imagery now reflects the BGRN band: band ordering in GIS tools such as QGIS or GDAL will now correctly reflect BGRN ordering instead of assuming RGBN.

Next-generation scenes are now being published: users should expect to see them returned in API and Explorer queries when not excluding scenes with the instrument PS2.SD.

Imagery Products¶

• Added analytic asset type to the SkySatScene item type.
• Added SkySatCollect item type to the Data API.

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.