Which Method is Used to Create the Planet & NICFI Tropical Monitoring Basemaps

This question was originally asked March 10, 2022 05:57 by user Maurice Kalthof.

Hi,

I was wondering how the basemaps, especially the bi-annual basemaps up untill september 2020, are compiled. Are the pixels/images selected based on a quality assesment, or is the median / mean used? If I know this, I can make a better assesment on what period / situation the basemaps represent.

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Aditya Chintalapati replied on May 05, 2022 at 07:13.

Hello,

I'm sharing the NICFI Basemap Product Specification document, In page 4 you can find the details about basemap production algorithm. Here is the link:

https://assets.planet.com/docs/NICFI_Basemap_Spec_Addendum.pdf

Hope this helps!

@elyhienrich thank you for sharing this document!