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    Add PlanetScope Tropical Visual Monthly Basemaps to Sentinel-Hub Commercial Data so they can be streamed with OAuth Clients in QGISNew

    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 Security – no more distributing a single PLAK key or account password. Fine-grained quota control – PU usage is traceable per client token. Operational efficiency – teams that already rely on Sentinel-Hub (EO Browser, Process API, QGIS plugin) can integrate Planet basemaps in the same workflow. Scalability – larger organisations can manage dozens of interpreters without credential sprawl.