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Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Geolocation errors make time series analysis unreliableOpen

On behalf of a customer:Pixels not aligning which makes time series analysis difficult

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Assured Tasking Cloud Coverage UpdateOpen

On behalf of a customerWould like to be notified about any cloud coverage changes over their task more than 24 before. They might task earlier.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Cloud cover forescatDelivered

Evolving cloud cover forecast in dashboard

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Thomas‎‎ 🌱

Global monthly/ quarterly basemaps area extension SVALBARDOpen

Hi all,I’m working on mapping glaciers and recently used the planet monthly and quarterly basemaps as a source for high resolution data in several glaicerized regions. I like to extend the mapping task to Svalbard, yet, unfortunately no basemaps are available for this region. Would it be possible to add it as a “new basemap region” and get monthly and quarterly basemaps at least for July-September or 3rd quarter in each year (Potentially also April-June and 2nd quarter). Checking the daily scenes, cloud-free mosaics should be feasible in this area in general. For the quarterly basemap, it would be best to prioritize images from August and early September to minimize snow cover.Thank you for considering the idea and looking forward to hearing back from you!Kind regards,Thomas

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Time Series - Planet StoriesDelivered

Planet stories provides an opportunity to create time series videos, but it doesn’t allow you to rewind or pause the video. Having the ability to rewind, pause, or fast-forward in time allows customers to visually see change over time which can be difficult when looking through hundreds of images.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Jeremy Umlauf‎‎ 🌱

Allow users to Upload their own AOIOpen

I would love to see the functionality that a user could add in their own kml to planet to view areas and before allowing it to be opened it would show how much area is going to be opened and how much that user has left in their subscription. In my line of work, we are always rushing to get areas open and as planet does a good job most of the time to get the area opened quickly it is very frustrating when we can’t get the area opened quickly. Having to go through the ticketing system just to get an area open seems to be an unnecessary workflow and I think it would make everyone's experience better if we had full control to open what we want, when we want. Thank you

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Disable cancel button after cancellation windowOpen

on behalf of a customer: Confusion over if the cancel button is clicked, but were still charged.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Orders API-partial ordersOpen

When using “partial delivery” I would like to see which items failed explicitly.In other words, the orders API response includes a list of the files delivered, which have the item IDs in them. Comparing that against the input IDs should show which were not successfully delivered.I would like to have an explicit list of failed_items within the API

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Bulk Downloads and Improved Naming With the Basemap ViewerOpen

There should be a bulk download option within the Basemap Viewer. For people who are not comfortable with the API or the CLI, clicking the download button next to each individual basemap quad is cumbersome, and each quad downloads as its own file rather than a single bulk file which clutters the downloads folder. Additionally, the nomenclature of the basemap quads should indicate their date. Pausing to throw 50 quads from one month into a single dated folder before moving on to the next month to ensure I’m organizing the right data together is time consuming. Also when the quads are actually in my GIS, I have no immediate way of knowing the date of the quad I’m looking at.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

dereklutchko‎‎ 🌱

SkySat Tasking Date Range DefaultsOpen

Hi, for consideration:When adding a tasking order, the default start and end dates are today and 364 days from now, respectively. If a customer’s contract is only for 1 year, this automatically creates an ‘end date after contract’ error and requires user input to update the end date for the collect.Users may decide to update that end date anyway; however, I enjoyed not having to make another selection and just leave as-is. There may be more considerations, but perhaps defaulting that to a year or the furthest valid date would be a better user experience?There’s also something about seeing a red error message based on a default values that the user didn’t even enter…(it’s a little thing, but thought I’d offer it up!)

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

tory.earth‎‎ 🌱

Planet Stories: Title ChangeOpen

Planet stories is a great resource to record land use changes over time. However, it is not possible to change the title of Time-Lapses once they have been published. In order to edit the title, a new Time-Lapse needs to be created which can be time consuming. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

Ability to convert UTC into local time in Tasking DashboardOpen

When our customers place a task we would like to be able to use our own timezone.Would like the ability to set the UTC time currently displayed to follow a specific time zone in the Tasking Dashboard interface. This will help us plan captures better in our own timezone and lead to a better user experience. See an exmaple here from Esri Inc - if account settings could have an option to change Timezone display or settings for tasking, similar to a drop down seen below.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

"Testing" Tasking DashboardOpen

I would like a “Testing” or “Dummy” Tasking Dashboard that allows me to go through the full workflow to place a Flexible SkySat Tasking Order, but is only for testing and demonstration purposes (i.e the order is not placed but allows me to display the process to take an order).

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

Ability to see areas of access (AOIs) on Account pageOpen

I would love to be able to see my areas of access in the Account page: https://account.planet.com for products/plans that have access limited to certain AOIs (areas of interest) - for example a PlanetScope Monitoring Subscription. Sometimes new users may not know the areas of access, and/or it can be difficult to remember the AOIs provided for the subscription. Having them displayed on a map in the account page, along my with usage and reports would be very useful.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

nicard‎‎ 🌱

Video and high temporal resolution still frameOpen

I would like to see greater availability and improved pre-processing of high spatial and temporal resolution imagery products that allow advanced analysis (including movement detection and quantification) for natural hazards such as flooding.My use case is measuring river flow and floods. For this, SkySat video is excellent, and SkySat All Frames also has some potential, however the imagery is relatively hard to get hold of and is delivered in a very raw form, which brings time delays, as imagery must be stabilised, rectified and optically enhanced before useful analysis can be undertaken.I very much hope the new Pelican constellation will retain the video and high frame rate still imagery capabilities, while improving on image quality and pre-processing!

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Aaron H‎‎ 🌱

Inclusion of "Remaining quota in the Plan Summary dashboard.Open

Include a "Remaining” value in the Plan Summary dashboard. Currently Purchased, Used and Pending are present but the addition of what remains of the quota can help customers with planning tasking.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Petra‎‎ 🌱

Add Monthly Surface Reflectance Basemaps 4-bands for whole world (area) for users of a paid Research licenseOpen

Idea: make Monthly Surface Reflection Basemaps 4-bands available for the whole world (area) for users of a paid Research license.I don’t understand why Planet puts “Monthly Surface Reflection Basemaps” in the contract and does not deliver it.*********************I am quite disappointed now that we have bought a Research license in which it was written:“4 Select PlanetScope Monthly Surface Reflectance Basemap Download for Academic”to find out that Planet provides only 3 spots in the US and the country of Ghana. No way to call that a Basemap.Also bi-weekly and weekly Surface Reflectance Basemaps may give you just other minute AOIs in the world. Also this is not worth the term Basemap.As a user you have no control over the areas provided nor over the period that they might be provided, thus there is no consistency.So currently, despite our bought license I advise people to create a NICFI account (tropical areas only). People can subsequently choose to work with Google Earth Engine.(Yes I’ve contacted our contact person at Planet… Customer success. ?? No, not yet.)

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

Add geopackage file format to Explorer (.gpkg) import AOIOpen

I would like to see Geopackage (.gpkg) file format added to Explorer supported file types for import file to define area of interest.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

Group management of hosted content for sharing within my organisation/subscriptionOpen

I would love if it was possible to better share hosted items such as Planet Stories or Hosted Data to all users in my Organisation/subscription, instead of on an individual user level. Hosted Data shared across all users in a organisation/subscription would lead to increased usage of hosted data files and better quota management by stoppig duplicate hosted files or Stories being created over the same location. I am very familiar with the ArcGIS Online or Portal functionality of Groups. https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/share-maps/groups.htm It would be great to have Groups in Planet Explorer.For example, A group is a collection of items usually related to a specific area of interest. As an admin you could create groups as a way to organize and share hosted items for multiple users in the organisation/suborganisation/subscription. Groups can also be used to organize specific types of data and users. For example, a group dedicated to imagery analysis may contain only hosted data or Planet stories for a specific use case (i.e stories and hosted images of a Fire or flood - this would lead to better outcomes for sharing and using this data in a time of crisis).

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

PE Order flow: be notified if another user has already ordered image in my Organisation/subscriptionOpen

I would like to have a pop-up or notification somewhere in Planet Explorer Ordering process, to be notified if another user in my subscription has already ordered the same images in my Organisation/subscription. This would make it easier to not duplicate orders and help better manage quota. Currently I need to be an admin to download the reports and then map in a GIS to see where previous orders have been placed, leading to duplicate orders.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

Ability to see order history across suborganisations, or all users in my subscriptionOpen

As an Admin I would like the ability to see order history across suborganisations, or all users in my subscription, in the Account page. This would be great as a map displayed on the Account page, showing orders and image locations of all images ordered for download and hosted over the organisation. At the moment I have to manually download the geojson files and footprints of the images, and reports in a GIS to understand where users have ordered and downloaded across the subscription. Being able to easily see this instantly on a map in the Account page would save time and make management easier. It also helps to understand quota when visualised for display.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

UzoDonChuma‎‎ 🌱

Automated PostCodesOpen

An algorithm using the building detection and road detection AI to automate new street/building identification and labelling for postal use-cases.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Planet SDK for Python does accept fallback in bundle_array when creating ordersOpen

The Python SDK library does not support fallback assets in product_bundle key like the API does. Following the steps described here:https://github.com/planetlabs/notebooks/blob/master/jupyter-notebooks/gee-integration/gee-integration.ipynbwith 'analytic_sr_udm2,analytic_udm2' string will lead to the following error:planet.specs.SpecificationException: bundle - 'analytic_sr_udm2,analytic_udm2' is not one of 'analytic_udm2', 'analytic_3b_udm2', 'analytic_8b_udm2', 'visual', 'basic_analytic_udm2', 'basic_analytic_8b_udm2', 'analytic_sr_udm2', 'analytic_8b_sr_udm2'.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Brittany‎‎ 🪴

Integration with ArcGIS Online/PortalOpen

I would like to see integration with ArcGIS Online/Portal. There would be a few ways to do this:Using the Planet APIs for search & order functionality in an ArcGIS Web AppBuilder Widget or Experience Builder, or similar app widget for easy search tool in a web map app. Shared Planet Basemaps Group for easy display of basemaps into Web Apps within the organisation. I.e. put in API key to unlock basemap display. Content collaboration to add images into content page as an ArcGIS Online “hosted raster or vector tile or scene layer” that could be used in any web map, and shared in an ArcGIS online organisation like other content. Hosted Data link into content (add streaming links directly into Content or Group) for easy display and use in ArcGIS Online.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago

Community TeamPlaneteer 🌎

Integrating my Planet API Key with my Sentinel Hub Credentials ConfigurationOpen

Currently, I can store my Sentinel Hub credentials in a configuration file and access them using Sentinel Hub Python package as documented here.If I need to enter my Planet API Key in the same workflow, I currently need to input this as a variable via a different method.As a user, it would be super neat if I could enter my Planet API Key as a variable into my Sentinel Hub configuration so that I can have one method to call my credentials with simplifying how to enter my credentials.

Forum|Forum|2 years ago