Today the only way to visualise the PlanetScope Tropical Visual Monthly Monitoring basemaps in QGIS is through the Planet Explorer plugin, which requires sharing a single user login (or PLAK API key) with every analyst.
This becomes a security and quota-management issue when several interpreters (2–5 in our case) need to perform visual land-cover assessments simultaneously.

Suggested improvement

• Make the Tropical Visual Monthly Basemap collection available in Sentinel-Hub Commercial Data Import, just like PSScene and other Planet products.

• Once enabled, each analyst could stream the 4 m basemap tiles via WMTS/WMS using their own OAuth Client (client_id / client_secret), generated in Planet’s OAuth portal.

• This removes the need to share personal credentials, keeps PU usage under individual tokens, and leverages the Sentinel-Hub cache/proxy already supported by the QGIS Sentinel-Hub plugin.

Benefits

1. Security – no more distributing a single PLAK key or account password.

2. Fine-grained quota control – PU usage is traceable per client token.

3. Operational efficiency – teams that already rely on Sentinel-Hub (EO Browser, Process API, QGIS plugin) can integrate Planet basemaps in the same workflow.

4. Scalability – larger organisations can manage dozens of interpreters without credential sprawl.