Planet Programs

Ethiopia experienced the worst desert locust outbreak in 2020, which increased food insecurity. This year, Woubet G. Alemu and Christopher S. R. Neigh published their article titled "Desert Locust Cropland Damage Differentiated from Drought with Multi-Source Remote Sensing in Ethiopia" in the Remote Sensing Journal (MDPI).   Their research targets to estimate desert locusts' paths and breeding sites using satellite remote sensing and climate factors. The team used multiple remote sensing sources to conduct this study and analyze the damage of desert locusts in the region. One of the sources they benefited from is monthly PlanetScope Basemaps, provided freely by t

Nusantara Atlas is a platform aimed at monitoring drivers of deforestation, fires, peatland degradation and forest regeneration in Equatorial Asia. It includes Planet-NICFI basemaps publicly available through the NICFI Data Satellite Program, as well as satellite images from Sentinel 2, Landsat, NOAA-20, S-NP, and MODIS, near-real-time deforestation alerts (RADD ; GLAD), fire hotspots (VIIRS and MODIS) and cadastral information.Users can generate time lapse satellite animations on the fly using Planet/NICFI, Sentinel-2, Landsat and share and save the results. It also presents stories and reports on deforestation and fires in such frameworks.About the latter, a research on Nusan

This week’s user story is about monitoring a landslide area in Ecuador. In February 2020, the San Rafael waterfall collapsed, and regressive erosion started around the Coca River, which put the environment and indigenous communities in the surrounding area in danger. The study area is located in Northeast Ecuador, at the River Coca, between the San Rafael Waterfall and the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydropower Dam and close to the volcano Reventador. They analyzed the erosion event with Sentinel-1 SAR data and included in the validation the PS Tropical Normalized Analytic Biannual Archive basemap from June to November 2019 and PlanetScope Imagery between 2020-02-14 and 2020-03-2021. The researchers emphasized that remote sensing and GIS are crucial for assessing and analyzing landslide areas

Hello, community. This is my first post. So, I want to share a quick application of Planet imagery for analyzing landslides. The study case is in a small province in Peru's Andes. This disaster destroyed more than 100 houses. Fortunately, there were very few fatalities. You can read more about this event at this link. 

Hi, good day! I applied and was accepted under the Planet's Education and Research Program. I tried acquiring PlanetScope Scene and PlanetScope Ortho Tile. However, My account does not show that I have such access, please help me. Thank you.

We notice a significant difference between some images that Planet shows us on its Planet-NICFI Basemap Viewer and those extracted in TFRecord format. Here is a guided example of what we notice:There is a shp and a geojson (id_27954006.zip) of a 540x540 meters grid on this link: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jv-oFoLkJZLCJieXIpULBYxqsPg6wl32?usp=sharingThis is what this geometry looks like in  ‘planet_medres_normalized_analytic_2021-10_mosaic’ in Basemap Viewer: Basemap View of the id_27954006.geojson in 2021-10 normalized mosaicWe extract the NICFI-Planet geometry of this shp into TFRecord files using Pl