Unlock the Full Time-Series Power of SkySat, No Contract Required
SkySat image of lower Manhattan, New York, captured October 16, 2025. © Planet Labs 2025. All rights reserved.
TechAt Planet, we work with some of the world's largest organizations and governments with comprehensive, multi-year contracts that provide continuous, strategic Earth observation and insights. But not every project needs that level of commitment. Independent researchers, engineering teams running unique projects, and customers just beginning their geospatial workflows often need flexibility, not long-term agreements.
We believe high-resolution satellite imagery should be accessible at any scale. That’s why we’re expanding Planet Select to change how smaller, ad-hoc users access SkySat data.
Planet Select, which allows customers to license imagery on demand, now offers both SkySat Tasking and the full SkySat Archive in one place. This combined capacity provides context and history for deep analysis: you can task a brand new image and immediately pair it with years of historical SkySat data. Through our partnership with SkyFi, we’re putting the full time-series capability of SkySat directly into the hands of every eligible user — with a simple transaction flow. Just search, select the imagery you need, and check out. No enterprise sales cycle required.
Time-Series Power in Action
Combining historical imagery with newly tasked data creates a complete picture of change, simplifying work across sectors where context matters. One example is for infrastructure monitoring. Consider an engineering firm overseeing the conversion of a large industrial plant in Germany into a new multi-use business park.
SkySat images of an industrial plant in Muelheim, Germany taken September 7, 2023 and May 9, 2025.
To build a clear historical record, the team can leverage Planet Select to access SkySat Archive imagery from before the project began (such as the scene from September 7, 2023, pictured on the left). That baseline supports due diligence, environmental assessments, and regulatory filings.
Then they might place weekly SkySat Tasking orders to actively capture and track demolition progress and confirm material removal on schedule (as seen on May 9, 2025, on the right). This Archive-to-Tasking workflow gives project managers confidence in both the historical conditions and the real-time status of a dynamic demolition effort.
This transactional access delivers significant value to the engineering firm by mitigating risk and controlling costs. By pulling archival images, the firm avoids relying on potentially incomplete ground reports, confirming when structures were decommissioned and establishing a clear historical baseline for environmental assessments. This reduces the risk of unforeseen issues.
The pay-as-you-go model also ensures that imagery costs align precisely with the project budget and timeline, as the firm only pays for the specific demolition site imagery when needed. The Planet Select self-service model ensures project managers maintain agility by avoiding the traditional procurement delays, allowing them to quickly verify progress without relying on costly field teams.
Utility Across Sectors
Beyond major infrastructure and engineering projects, the time-series power of Planet Select addresses a vast range of ad-hoc and transactional needs across many industries:
- Energy and utility teams can task SkySat to monitor encroachment and detect emerging risks.
- Agricultural analysts can use Archive imagery to compare multi-year crop conditions.
- Insurance and disaster response teams can pair historical and newly captured images to rapidly validate claims.
Across use cases, the need remains the same: instant access to high-resolution context.
By making both SkySat Archive and Tasking available via a flexible, pay-as-you-go model, Planet Select enables researchers, project managers, producers, analysts, and small firms to run deep analysis, validate critical decisions, and manage risk, without the friction of a large contract. The results are clearer insights, faster project execution, and democratized access to high-resolution data.
Ready to take control of your projects? Start your high-resolution, time-series analysis today with Planet Select.
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