January 22 2020

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

December 12 2019

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)

Improved band metadata in PlanetScope scenes and orthotiles

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 PlanetScope imagery released

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.

May 2018

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.