High-Resolution Imagery with Planet Satellite Tasking
At 50 cm resolution, Planet Tasking provides organizations with real-time intelligence to proactively identify blind spots, anticipate events, and have confidence in the next mission-critical decision.
Rapid revisit, Global Intelligence
Reliable, High-Resolution Data from Around the World
With 21 SkySats in orbit, Planet offers the most frequent, intraday revisit capability of any commercial provider, capturing actionable insights between 5-7 times per day for real-time decision making.
Rapid Revisit
Multiple revisits per day, the highest frequency commercially available
High Resolution
Enhanced 50 cm spatial resolution images
Tip and Cue
Leverage Planet’s PlanetScope and SkySat constellations for a simple Tip and Cue workflow
Global Coverage
300 million+ square kilometers of imagery collected daily
Rapid Delivery
High-resolution images and insight delivered less than three hours from capture
Workflow Integration
Access data and imagery within existing workflow with Planet’s API
With Planet’s automated Tasking Dashboard, you can request high-frequency, high-resolution satellite imagery and data, stereo collection for 3D models and DEM construction, off-nadir imagery, and videos of any location in the world.
How It Can Help
With the Highest Revisit Commercially Available, Planet Tasking Delivers High-Precision Insights and a Global Perspective
Planet Tasking is built for flexibility and frequency. Using the world’s most agile constellation of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites, Planet is empowering organizations with geospatial insights and images multiple times a day.
High Accuracy
Images provide extremely detailed information in high resolution
More Timely
High intraday revisit enables real-time intelligence to changes as they evolve
Easily Accessible
Cloud-based dashboard makes Tasking simple and possible anywhere
Comprehensive Library
Access to constantly updated archive of 10+ billion square kilometers of Earth imagery
With 21 SkySats in orbit, Planet Tasking has the highest intraday revisit capability of any commercial provider globally, capturing satellite imagery and insights up to 5-7 times a day in areas that are traditionally challenging for imaging due to low satellite capacity.
High frequency satellite imagery provides reliable, real-time information to avoid blind spots, anticipate events, and empower rapid, informed action. Planet data makes global change visible and accessible. Planet Tasking’s automated, cloud-based system ensures that your response is always timely.
How It’s Used
How Organizations Inform Decisions with Planet Tasking
Defense and Intelligence
Reliable, up-to-date satellite imagery from Planet Tasking provides fast and accessible insights into geopolitical and security events as they unfold.
- Task collections of 50 centimeter imagery sub-daily
- Reduce risk and receive quick insights with tip and cue capabilities
- Capture unexpected events across remote locations, borders, and coastlines
- Extract insights with near-infrared, stereo, and video capabilities
- Validate actions with rapid revisit tasking
Discover how analysts from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey utilized Planet satellite imagery to uncover covert nuclear facilities in Iran.
Civil Government
Protect public lands, measure policy impacts, focus on specific areas of interest, and enable rapid decision making.
- Manage and monitor infrastructure projects broadly
- Improve protection of natural resources and people
- Analyze areas of interest and derive timely insights
- Update maps and charts with the most recent data
- Monitor and detect changes to land use
Following the legalization of cannabis in California, Humboldt County used Planet to proactively identify and monitor cannabis cultivation. Learn how high-resolution SkySat imagery helped inform and enforce permit compliance across the county.
Forestry and Land Use
Monitor and manage forest assets and operations, track changes in land use and land cover, and localize forest clearing in near-real time with high cadence, high resolution imagery.
- Optimize your timber harvest operations
- Monitor and manage forest health
- Track changes to land cover and land use over time
- Prevent illegal and unpermitted clearing of forest
Discover how Southern Forestry Consultants utilize Planet’s real-time imagery to provide an alternative to file based workflows, while supporting increased operational value across the sustainable forestry chain.
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Emergency Response
Accessible, frequent, and high-resolution imaging helps anticipate, assess, and mitigate disasters.
- Anticipate changes in landscape, identify potential dangers, and stem problems
- Understand the scope of disaster at speed with before and after imagery
- Inform the most effective and rapid mode of response
Learn how Planet worked with the Moore Foundation, the Moraga-Orinda Fire District, and UC Berkeley to build an automated system that rapidly gathers timely, high-resolution satellite imagery to inform decision-making for first responders to wildfires.
Energy and Infrastructure
Fast, reliable, high-resolution data help monitor infrastructure development and growth across regions.
- Monitor important assets and reclamation projects
- Manage and preempt risks to your business
- Evaluate competitor activity, production methods, and equipment
- Mitigate and prevent crisis
Learn about Planet and Kayrros’ solution to safely monitor large pipelines and power transmission lines.
Collection Types
Data for Every Need
Video
Pan video up to 120 seconds
Stereo Collection
3D models and DEM construction for volumetric analysis
Standard Collect
Point and strip up to 500 sq km
How to task a satellite
Planet’s Tasking Dashboard: A Simple, Efficient, and Integrated Workflow
With Planet’s automated cloud-based Tasking Dashboard, the satellite intelligence you need is just five simple steps away.
Access the data you need, when you need it. The easy-to-use Tasking interface is accessible from anywhere, and allows you to autonomously submit, modify, and cancel satellite imagery requests online. The process is automated, and provides you with near real-time updates from order to fulfillment. When the order is completed, the assets are delivered directly to you through Planet’s powerful, cloud-based infrastructure.
STEP 1
Name Order
Enter the name of your order
STEP 2
Define the Product
Select whether to schedule a single or reoccurring order
STEP 3
Define Tasking Parameters
Change the default setting to suit your requirements
STEP 4
Insert GeoJSON
Copy and paste the location’s geoJSON
STEP 5
Review and Confirm
Review order summary and confirm order
Global Perspective, High-Precision Insights
Imagery and Insights, Delivered Where You Want to Work
Planet Basemaps
Current, complete, analysis-ready mosaics
Planet Monitoring
High frequency, global coverage
Planet Archive
A constantly refreshed global dataset
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With Planet Tasking, Organizations and Governments Are Seeing the World Differently
FAQs
Further Information About Planet’s Advanced Satellite Tasking System
Discover how Planet Tasking can deliver reliable, high-resolution imagery into your workflow
Contact sales to schedule a demo and learn how Planet Tasking can bring new insight to your biggest challenges.
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