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IMAGING THE EARTH DAILY
Planet provides geospatial insights at the speed of change, equipping organizations with the data necessary to make informed, timely decisions. With best-in-class imagery, you can monitor areas of interest, validate information on the ground, and discover trends relevant to your organization.
Our constellations
Planet operates more than 200 satellites that together provide an unprecedented dataset of Earth observation imagery. With a unique combination of coverage, frequency, and resolution Planet delivers geospatial insights at the speed of change, helping you get the most nuanced understanding of changing ground conditions.
Planet's constellation of satellites orbit the poles every 90 minutes, capturing the entire Earth's landmass every day.
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| 180+ | 5 | 21 | |
| PLANETSCOPE | RAPIDEYE | SKYSAT | |
| Collection capacity | 350M+ km2/day | Archive back to 2009 | 400K km2/day |
PlanetScope – 3.7 meter resolution
RapidEye – 5 meter resolution
SkySat – 50 centimeter resolution
VISUAL PRECISION, ANALYTIC POWER
Access color-corrected 3-band and sensor-calibrated multispectral products. Basic, orthorectified, radiance, and surface reflectance imagery are available.
PLANETSCOPE | RAPIDEYE | SKYSAT | |
| Bands | 4 (RGB, NIR) | 5 (RGB, red edge, NIR) | 5 (RGB, NIR, pan) |
| Products | Color enhanced Visual Analytic | Color enhanced Visual Analytic | Visual Panchromatic Pansharpened multispectral Analytic |
| Pixel Resampled | 3 m | 5 m | Visual, panchromatic, pansharpened multispectral: 0.5m |
| Radiometric Resolution | Visual: 8 bit Analytic: 16 bit | Visual: 8 bit Analytic, panchromatic, and pansharpened multispectral: 16 bit | |
| Positional Accuracy | <10 m RMSE | ||
| File Format | GeoTIFF | ||
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PLANET ARCHIVE
Planet Archive empowers customers with a living dataset of global change, with new imagery added on a daily basis. With 10+ billion sq km of imagery, Planet Archive has proprietary datasets back to 2009 and public datasets back to 1972.
- Get the most recent before and after image available
- Monitor historical change and assess trends globally
- Train machine learning and computer vision algorithms
Timelapse imagery of construction of the Brandenburg airport. Since 2009, Planet has captured hundreds of images of the location.
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