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.

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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.

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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: How Granular Delivers Fast, Frequent, In-Field Insights to Farmers

In an age of technology, farmers are merging intuition and expertise with data from satellites to capture subtle changes at field level. Planet’s long-standing partner Granular is leveraging high-frequency PlanetScope imagery to help farmers increase yields and manage risk.

Discover how Granular is helping farmers make timely interventions with Planet data.

Farmer in the field using Granular Insights. Photo credit: Granular

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

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Planet Tasking

On-demand, high-
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Planet Monitoring

High frequency, global coverage

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Planet Analytic Feeds

Transforming imagery to insights

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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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