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Forum|Forum|3 years ago

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Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Visualize single band in BrowserNew

On behalf of customer: Would like the ability to view a single band from a BYOC you have to write custom evalscript (as far as I can tell).Would be great to add a tab for single band viewing with some built-in color maps. The screenshot below shows the current options. It would be great if next to "Composite", "Index", "Custom Script", there was another tab called "Single Band". And then, under that tab you could check with band you want view, the scale (ie 0-1, 10-30, etc.) and the cmap (viridis, magma, grayscale, etc. )

Forum|Forum|1 day ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Improvement for Add-On Purchase Flow in Planet Insights PlatformNew

on behalf of customer: As a Planet Insights Platform user, if I have a Platform Plan (say Exploration), it's not entirely clear to me how to purchase imagery without clicking around to figure out where it's hiding.Currently, the purchase section locates monitoring plans under "Preselected Packages". As a user, I have no context for what this means, and this is not intuitive.Ideally, should update the name of this tab to something more descriptive. For example: "Planet Imagery Packages" or similar.

Forum|Forum|1 day ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Support for deletion of all tiles in collectionNew

Posted on behalf of a customer.When managing tiles into a BYOC collection, it would be useful to have a button for delete all tiles. At the moment you can either delete each tile separately, or delete the collection and create a new one.

Forum|Forum|7 days ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Support for Feature API References as Input Geometry for Process, Batch, Async, Stat and Batch Stat APINew

Posted on behalf of a customer.Currently, APIs require the geometry to be explicitly provided as a GeoJSON in the request payload. This forces users to maintain their own geometry storage and ingestion systems, even if those same geometries are already managed within the Planet Feature API. This redundancy increases the risk of geometry mismatch and adds unnecessary overhead to the request size. We propose allowing the input.bounds.geometry or a new input.features field to accept a Feature or Collection Reference URI. This would allow the API to fetch the geometry directly from a managed collection.

Forum|Forum|7 days ago

jjameslee‎‎ 🌱

Explorer - Imagery Date Context For OrdersNew

Just a simple quality of life detail: for users working on analysis of satellite imagery over a time-range, it may be useful to actively display the date of images contained within an order, not just the date the order was placed. In the “my orders” sidebar on the explorer page, between the “Imagery Source” and “Assets” fields, a field named “Capture Date” would be useful to check scene capture times at a glance. Thanks!

Forum|Forum|9 days ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Expose available tasking credits/quota via the Tasking APINew

GET https://api.planet.com/tasking/v2/pricing/ has a response that contains empty values for "estimated_quota_cost" and "available_quota” Ideally, if we expose the "available_quota" and “estimated_quota_cost” fields it should have a corresponding value.The current workaround to this is to use the underlying accounts page endpoint like this:GET https://api.planet.com/account/v1/tasking/contracts/<PL-number>and the response contains the quota used and quota pending

Forum|Forum|2 months ago

vbanerjee‎‎ 🌱

Cropping Tool for unrectified imagesNew

Our lab is interested in ordering unrectified images (basic_analytic_4b) of an AOI where the AOI is typically < 0.07km^2. Because the cropping tool is only available for rectified images, we end up wasting 10000x the scene quota every month which is a huge blow. Is there a way to download cropped unrectified images or future plans to implement the cropping tools for unrectified images?

Forum|Forum|3 months ago

Oscar Castillo‎‎ 🌱

New feature to validate/test requests in the Subscriptions APINew

It would be nice to have an option in the Subscriptions API to validate or test a request before submitting it. Thanks!

Forum|Forum|3 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

AUM Quota- OverusageDelivered

On behalf of a customer:mistakenly went over quota - for example forgot to clip and ended up downloading the scenes.This leads to a problem in showing the real usage.Currently the work around: need to delete the whole package on Planet’s side and then customer needs to download the previous AOIs downloaded.Idea: disable overusage

Forum|Forum|5 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

AUM Usage InsightsDelivered

On behalf of a customer:It is difficult to get clear insights of the areas subscribed to during specific periods of times.This is even more complex when an area is subscribed to by mistake.

Forum|Forum|5 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Customer Feedback - Carbon Diligence ProductDelivered

Feedback from a customer (conversation to be continued through further discussions):“After evaluating the above-ground biomass product at 30m spatial resolution from Planet to detect forest harvests, we concluded that although it has a high harvest detection rate, it also has a high amount of noise (pixels classified as harvest in areas that were not harvested) (context: we classified pixels as harvest vs non-harvests by setting a threshold based on biomass change). Therefore, we decided to move forward with a different product to accomplish this task. However, we’ll keep evaluating the best products in the market, including Planet’s, on an annual basis to make sure we have the most suitable product for our purpose. I hope to touch base with you again later this year and I’m sure by then you’ll have an even better product!” @david.marvin

Forum|Forum|5 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Tasking Dashboard- add a new column "coordinates"New

On behalf of the customer, Tasking Dashboard does not have a column “coordinates/Lat-long” hence it is difficult to link order/scene-id with coordinates once an order is fulfilled. Having a column coordinates/Lat-long will help the customer to connect/link the scene id/orders while extracting the report from Tasking dashboard, Even when we receive only Lat-long from our customer to get update on order, it becomes really tedious job to identify the order ingested against that order. anyways Tasking dashboard shows Lat-long under geometry in info tab. we request here to add this info in a column at Tasking Dashboard.

Forum|Forum|6 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Tasking Dashboard- add a new column "coordinates"Duplicate

Tasking Dashboard does not have a column “coordinates/Lat-long” hence it is difficult to link order/scene-id with coordinates once an order is fulfilled. Having a column of coordinates/Lat-long will help the customer to connect/link the scene id/orders while extracting the report from Tasking dashboard, Tasking dashboard shows Lat-long under geometry in info tab. We request here to add this info in a column at Tasking Dashboard's report so ask is while extracting the report from tasking dashboard, a column/field needs to have coordinates(x, y value) of the order.

Forum|Forum|6 months ago

pixels sideways‎‎ 🌱

Add Sat Comm (Starlink like) tech to Dove SatsNew

When I read about Aparheid Clyde turning off Ukraine’s access to Starlink to favor Russia in a critical moment. I was livid. How can one @%#$#^$ person have that much power and abuse it on a whim or a for $$$ at the expense expense of lives?After learning about Planet Labs via the HBO Documentary “Wlld Wild Space,” I wondered if it would be possible to upgrade Dove sats to have Starlink type sat comm capabilities that would be in the hands of an altruistic company that would not abuse their power and could easily rival and surpass Starlink especially if cost to create was less and could be made available to everyone on earth for low or no cost. Coupled with your image tech having instant access to sat comms would be life saving in natural disasters, conflicts, people stranded in remote locations and the potential to enhance and foster communication to unite people rather than divide. Have no clue if this is at all doable but the idea of marrying your amazing image tech with Sat Comms tech would be awesome.

Forum|Forum|6 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Improve Error Messaging when wrong aws_region is inputted in the request- Batch Statistical APIDelivered

If for example the bucket region is being specified as per Google cloud's nomenclature (eg: us-west2 as compared to AWS' us-west2), the error message returned is as below: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://services.sentinel-hub.com/api/v1/statistics/batchServer response: "{"status": 500, "reason": "Internal Server Error", "message": "Something went wrong. Incident id: null", "code": "COMMON_EXCEPTION"}"Issue here has to do with Error messaging and how it could more accurately help identify the issue rather than a simple internal server error.

Forum|Forum|6 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Planet Browser LegendNew

This idea is on behalf of another: Legend on Planet Browser should be visible on the map by default. At the moment the legend of a product like NDVI is hidden behind a dropdown in the Visualise window.I think it should be visible on the map also if all overlay windows are minimized since it's a vital part to understanding the data

Forum|Forum|7 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Planet Explorer missing some functionsDelivered

on behalf of customer:Would like more functionality for data and quota management:-Data that has been previously downloaded to be flagged in the data catalogue to be able to download it several times without charge.-Shared Hosted Folder program to be developed further, to the point where you can search for data by location and date and download it from there.

Forum|Forum|7 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Conditional before submitting an order in Explorer or APIs to save download quotaOpen

It would be highly beneficial to implement a pop-up notification for customers right before they place an order. The pop-up should convey something along the lines of 'This action will consume X value from your download quota.'In cases where the customer either didn't use the clip option or lacks sufficient quota for the download, a message should appear, stating, 'You do not have enough quota to proceed with this order.'This proactive approach will undoubtedly help us avoid numerous issues related to downloads in the future.

Forum|Forum|7 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Convoluted way of downloading imagesDelivered

on behalf of a customer:Downloading tasked images process is convoluted and going from TaDa to Explorer - would be simpler if a downlink link was sent directly to enable download, or if the workflow was contained within TaDa

Forum|Forum|7 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Impact on quota bar and reporting usage when making a mistakeDelivered

on behalf of customer:I made a few mistakes in downloading big regions, this has impacted the usage reporting and quota bar

Forum|Forum|7 months ago

Luis Ángel Aguilar‎‎ 🌱

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.

Forum|Forum|7 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Allow tasking order name changeDelivered

On behalf of a customer:Ability to change the order name after placing order. Or it is sufficient to prevent the registration of the same order name. The reason behind this is that sometimes the “create order from here” button is used and its easy to forget to change the order name. As a result, many orders with the same name are created.

Forum|Forum|8 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Multilingual Search box in Planet ExplorerDelivered

On behalf of a customer: Previously Planet Explorer's search box allowed multilingual searches. However, since the search engine changed, it is no longer possible to search in some languages.

Forum|Forum|8 months ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Sandbox for APIsDelivered

On behalf of a customer:There isn't a Sandbox for planet APIs with allocated testing imagery

Forum|Forum|8 months ago

agdo.e.v‎‎ 🌱

“Feature Request: Dynamic Water-Resource Dashboard in Planet Explorer”New

“Feature Request: Dynamic Water-Resource Dashboard in Planet Explorer” Description: Hi Planet team, I propose a dynamic dashboard widget for monitoring water resources: • Choose a region and time range • See time-series graphs of water-body extent • Export PDF/CSV reports directly This would help humanitarian and environmental users quickly assess water availability.

Forum|Forum|8 months ago

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