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Planetary Variables provide a range of global data products, derived from several satellite constellations, which measure the changing conditions of the Earth's surface.

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matt.ballard
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matt.ballardPlaneteer 🌎
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Open Data for Planetary Variables in Sentinel Hub

Planet recently released support for delivering Planetary Variables to Sentinel Hub.  Check out this product announcement and this blog post if you’d like to learn more about what’s been released. To help you explore these new datasets and capabilities, we have also released open datasets for several of our Planetary Variables.  We’ve opened these datasets to allow for anybody to explore what this data looks like or to test workflows.As part of this open data release, data is available for Land Surface Temperature, Crop Biomass, and Soil Water Content.  There is 4 years of data from 2019 to 2022 across 4 areas of interest in Uruguay, India, Germany, and the US.  You can explore more information about these collections here: https://collections.sentinel-hub.com/tag/planetary-variables/.  By clicking through to the specific Planetary Variables, you’ll be taken to their open data pages, such as this Soil Water Content Open Data page.To make it simple to use these open datasets, they have

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Q&A + Resources - Agile EO: Updates to Planetary Variables for Agriculture

In the May Agile EO episode, we shared upcoming updates to Planetary Variables for Agriculture. Watch the webinar on-demand for more information. Below are answers to common questions and some questions that we weren’t able to get to during the live event. Senior Product Manager, Ariel Zajdband, provided answers, plus resources to learn more. Question: Are Planetary Variables available globally? Answer: Yes. Question: When are these updates to Planetary Variables available? Answer: 20 m Soil Water Content and Land Surface Temperature is available on June 1, 2025, and 3 m Crop Biomass on August 1, 2025. Question: I understand that the Planetary Variables have some restrictions, can you share what those are or where on Earth they aren’t available? Answer: Yes, the restrictions are actually related to slope and the presence of a dense vegetation cover as in rainforests. For more information you can check our documentation. In any case, we can test our data in your area to assess the feasi

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Python SDK for Forest Carbon Datasets

Hi all - I am a co-founder of Cecil and we are one of Planet’s Forest Carbon partners. At Cecil we make nature data consistent, joinable, and ready for analysis with our platform built for data science and engineering teams.Cecil’s Python SDK includes an API and analytical database, providing seamless access to datasets like Planet’s Forest Carbon Monitoring data. With Cecil data teams can securely connect their data operations and leverage a modern SQL database in their workflow to analyse time-series and spatial data at scale. There is no minimum spend or subscription to get started with Cecil, making high-quality datasets accessible to organizations of all sizes with usage-based pricing.Feel free to reach out to me on this platform or send me an email to get started for free (alex@cecil.earth). Excited to be in this community! 

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Webinar Resources + Q&A - Revolutionizing Agriculture Insurance With Satellite Data

In our recent webinar, Revolutionizing Agriculture Insurance With Satellite Data: Insights for 2025, experts at AXA Climate, SwissRe, GreenTriangle, Suyana, and Planet shared:Key updates from the 2024 growing season Real-world examples of how satellite data is improving claims and underwriting accuracy The latest parametric solutions for Agriculture Insurance Watch the webinar on-demand for all of the details.  Below are some questions we received during the event and resources to learn more. QuestionsQuestion: What’s the benefit of using Planet data versus public?Answer: Many of Planet’s products leverage existing public satellite data, which play a vital role in addressing a variety of use cases and often serve as an excellent foundational solution. Planet’s satellite constellation, PlanetScope, complements public optical sensors such as Sentinel-2 and MODIS. It proves especially valuable in scenarios requiring higher spatial resolution or more frequent revisit times. Furthermore, ou

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Resources and Q&A - Agile EO Webinar: 3 m Forest Carbon Monitoring

In October’s Agile EO episode, 3 m Forest Carbon Monitoring, we introduced the world's first 3 m-resolution and quarterly-updated map of every tree on Earth that brings accuracy, transparency, and trust to nature-based solutions for climate change. Watch the webinar on-demand here.  Below are some questions we received during the event and resources to learn more. Questions Question: What is the minimum tree size you can detect?Answer: The monitoring product provides area-based estimates, rather than tree-based estimates. In other words, it is not explicitly detecting and delineating individual trees. However, visually, signals of individual trees can be apparent in the data in some cases, e.g., sparsely vegetated systems with large trees. These signals are more likely for large trees (crowns larger than the 3 m pixel size), and trees with heights greater than 4 m.    Question: Are there areas of the world where this product is less reliable?Answer: We are currently developing a valida

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query field boundary

I followed your instruction and create a subscription, however I receive this message:Request failed with {"error":{"reason":"Policy issue","details":["No valid line items found for organization_id '467158' and resource_id 'FIELD_BOUNDARIES_v1.0.0_S2_P1M'."]}}NoneMay I ask what could be the problem

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[Agile EO Webinar Series] Planet Field Boundaries - Resources and Q&A

In this month of Planet’s Agile EO Webinar Series, we covered our newest Planetary Variable, Field Boundaries (FB). This is the first PV that we have built in Slovenia after the acquisition of Sinergise. FB contains a dataset of polygons that represents the boundaries of agricultural fields for your areas of interest anywhere around the globe. Agricultural field boundaries serve as the foundational framework for a wide range of analyses from food security to supply chain traceability to commodities trading.  You can watch the on-demand recording here. If you want to learn more about Field Boundaries, please contact a representative in your region: North and South America - matthew.walkley@planet.com, Asia Pacific - janelle.ting@planet.com, and Europe/Middle East/Africa -  lukas.aitken@planet.com.   Below you’ll find some FAQs and top questions from the live webinar.  Questions & Answers Definition and characteristics of field boundariesWhat is the minimum field size that is reliabl

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mirons
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mironsCommunity Manager 🌎
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Planetary Variables: Soil Water Content Validation WhitepaperBlog

Attached is a whitepaper that covers both a spatial and temporal validation of Planet’s latest Soil Water Content product.The paper, which is partly based on Planet’s own field measurements, does a great job explaining why the validation of soil water content is so challenging. Other interesting topics covered are the number of in-situ measurements you need to get an equivalent of 1 Soil Water Content pixel (spoiler alert, this is 7!) within the same uncertainty and results of many temporal validations showing Pearson correlations up to 0.9.Please reach out to https://www.planet.com/contact-sales/ with any questions! 

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azcuemaite
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Crop Hydric state for irrigation

Hello,We are using planet images to control irrigation in crops.We usually use SWIR bands with other satellites.Is there a way to see  a crop hydric state, or something similar with planet available bands?

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