Data Driven Precision Agriculture with Planet
Planet’s high-resolution, high frequency satellite solutions provide the critical insights necessary for productive, profitable, and sustainable farming.
Precision agriculture powered by Planet.
Planet for agriculture
Maximize Yields and Ensure Crop Health with a New Era of Reliable, High Frequency Satellite Imaging
Planet provides the most current and complete agricultural insights across every region and season. With Planet, growers can measure crop health from preseason to harvest, to farm more efficiently, profitably, and sustainably.
High Frequency
Daily in-season revisit rates powered by 200+ satellites
Global Coverage
Broad area monitoring of agricultural regions worldwide
Field-Level Detail
0.5 and 3-5 meter resolution satellite images
Easy and Efficient Access
Simple APIs for workflow integration
Deep Historical Archive
Over 1,300 images for every acre on earth
Planet’s daily stream of high-resolution satellite imagery enables precision agriculture at scale, even in regions with frequent cloud cover. Providing a combination of broad area coverage, field-level detail, frequent in-season revisit rates, and rapid access, Planet provides valuable input at each stage of crop management. With simple cloud-based APIs, Planet data can be integrated into your software pipeline with ease.
North Platte, Nebraska
Satellite imagery for agricultural planning
Leverage Planet’s Extensive Archive of High Quality, Analysis-Ready Data to Plan for the Growing Season
Annual crop maps can be analyzed for insights about productivity and field health, helping farmers and agronomists identify in-field patterns and region-specific trends when planning.
Quantify and analyze productivity across fields
Define management zones, planning, and practice
Create Management Zones
Determine management zones with extensive historical data
Generate Prescription Maps
Build granular variable rate prescriptions for seeding
Layer with More Data
Integrate with IoT and financial data to drive digital agriculture planning
Fields near Powell, Wyoming. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index calculated from Planet’s June 2019 surface reflectance basemap.
Case Study: Digital Technology and Field-Level Data Provides an Informed Start to Crop Planning
Remote sensing data from Planet’s reliable, high-frequency satellites provides growers with broad area field coverage and insight into productivity, equipping them with the information required to plan for the season ahead.
Planet provides scalable solutions to assist growers with planning and early season operations.
Crop management and monitoring
Planet’s Daily Monitoring of Agricultural Land Provides Continual Images of Crops, Even in Regions with Frequent Cloud Cover
Planet’s stream of 3.7 meter resolution satellite imagery enables precision digital agriculture and pest detection at scale. Access to this daily data supports informed crop management decisions, enabling farmers and agronomists to monitor and maximize their crop health each season.
Monitor Crop Development
Track crop health and changes daily with field-level detail
Detect Crop Health Issues
Detect disease, pests, and nutrient deficiencies with dense vegetation analysis and vitality alerts
Localize Treatments
Identify and respond to growth stages or health issues in need of treatment
Automate Crop Indices
Leverage Planet’s APIs to automate the production of health indices like NDVI
Layer With More Data
Integrate with IoT and financial data to drive digital agriculture planning
Case Study: Advancing Regenerative Agriculture With Skytec’s Ranger And Limestone Valley RC&D
Optimizing best practices in land management can increase biodiversity, enrich soil, and protect water quality, making our soil more resilient to climate instability. This practice, known as regenerative agriculture, is a critical tool for agriculture experts all over the world. However, measuring land use and soil health at scale can be complex and resource intensive.
The custom web app Skytec built for Limestone Valley RC&D showing soil samples and tasked SkySat rendered as a NIR composite image.
Enable and Monitor Best Practices for Sustainable Agriculture
Optimize Inputs and Verify Sustainability Commitments with Planet’s Broad-Area Monitoring and Granular Resolution
Sustainable practices in agriculture can help regenerate soil health, store carbon, and decrease environmental impacts. Planet’s science-grade data can help verify adoption of decarbonization efforts, make it easier for growers to optimize their inputs and make more efficient and ecologically sustainable decisions.
Optimize Input Usage
Leverage field level data to avoid over-fertilization
Improve Irrigation Efficiency
Provide irrigation recommendations to conserve water
Drive Best Practices
Assess the implementation of conservation tilling and cover cropping
Planet image of Tylihul Estuary, Ukraine taken on July 12, 2016
Case Study: Manna Irrigation is Leveraging Planet Satellite Imagery to Improve Irrigation Intelligence
As water becomes an increasingly precious commodity, we must change the way we use it—particularly within agriculture. Using Planet imagery, Manna Irrigation provides growers with irrigation recommendations, crop monitoring maps, and irrigation planning tools.
Learn how Ag-Tech is changing irrigation efficiency in agriculture.
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Power Precision Agriculture with Planet’s Satellite Solutions
Planet now provides daily 8-band imagery from SuperDove satellites. With a deep archive, over 200 satellites in space, and simple API access, look to Planet as your strategic partner in space. Build your ag solutions on Planet's industry leading, high-frequency data to make timely, informed decisions.
Planet Basemaps
Current, complete,
analysis-ready mosaics
Planet Tasking
On-demand, high-
resolution images
Planet Monitoring
High frequency, global coverage
Planet Analytic Feeds
Transforming imagery to insights
Planet’s Professional Services team provides a range of services to help you efficiently implement Planet technologies within a farming or agricultural context. Planet provides launch programs for onboarding, and a range of workshops to build and advance knowledge about the Planet Platform. Planet’s Professional Services also include expert guidance on the integration of Planet into your agricultural pursuits, alongside a range of data services to optimize Planet and help you farm in a more sustainable, profitable, and efficient way.
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Discover How Planet Data is Assisting Agricultural Projects Around the World
Learn More about Planet Satellite Systems and Precision Agriculture
Planet’s high cadence monitoring and 3-5 meter resolution imagery allows you to track agricultural processes with ease. Learn how Planet’s range of solutions can help ensure a healthy, bountiful future for your agricultural endeavours.
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