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GabiZuccolotto24‎‎ 🌱

Changing plan from basic Education & Research Plan to NASA SmallSat Data Plan

I’m a PhD student using Planet data for my dissertation research. I’m currently on a basic Education & Research student plan. However, I recently received a NASA FINESST grant and therefore would like to switch onto the NASA SmallSat Data plan. Please let me know how to make this switch.

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4 days ago

jawad.ziyad‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

PlanetScope Surface reflectance

Hello,I have a PlanetScope Surface reflectance Product. Is the AnalyticMS_SR.tif file is scaled surface reflectance in Digital Number ? and How do I convert the DN to surface reflectance value?

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6 days ago

PKK‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

PlanetScope VIs calculation

Hello I’m a beginner in GIS and have a few questions about calculating vegetation indices (VIs). Here are the details of my process: I have PlanetScope images (4 bands, 3B_AnalyticMS_SR). I successfully calculated NDVI, and the result was as expected, ranging from -1 to +1. However, when I tried to calculate EVI using this formula (2.5 * (NIR - Red) / ((NIR + 6 * Red - 7.5 * Blue) + 1), the results were strange, ranging from about -8000 to 6000. To address this, I normalized the band values (since some values exceeded 10,000) by dividing by 10,000. But even after that, some values were still greater than 1, which didn’t help. Then, I found a suggestion from somewhere in this community that I should convert the bands to TOA reflectance using coefficients from the metadata because the initial values are in Digital Numbers (DNs). After doing this, I got EVI values within the expected range of -1 to +1. But I’m not sure if this solution is correct. So, I have a few questions:Is the solutio

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18 days ago

Evangelia Efi Konstantinidou‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Product type description in metadata?

Hello,I have a question on the PlanetScope Harmonized surface reflectance data product’s metadata. Where in the metadata can I find an indication that the product is ‘harmonized’, as opposed to non-harmonized surface reflectance image products?I know ‘harmonized’ is an option during product order but how can I verify that I indeed downloaded the desired type of imagery? Thanks in advance,Efi

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1 month ago

Varaha_RS‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

RGB reflectance ranges for proper RGB layer display on QGIS

I am having trouble in getting a clear display of a true color composite (TCI) of a harvested farm in north of India in QGIS. I am using Planetscope image of 2024 from the 8-band Superdove collection. This is a 2.5 acre farm. The TCI content is getting obscured by rainbow effect (‘Unclear.png’). The band ranges and other symbology details are given in ‘Unclear_specs.png’). I have attached a screenshot of the metadata of this farm for reference (‘Unclear_metadata.png’). What band value ranges or other parameters should I edit to see a clearer image?FYR, I have attached screenshots in the three categories for a larger farm (14 acres) that is harvested in one plot and tilled in other plots: Clear_14ac.png, Clear_14ac_specs.png, Clear_14ac_metadata.png. This farm has a very clear view. The clear confidence percent for this image is 95 as compared to the unclear farm (85) but that should not produce such a drastic difference in clarity given the clear percent in both images is 100.Please he

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1 month ago

mariah.hauckPlaneteer 🌎

posted in PlanetScope

Resources and Q&A - Agile EO Webinar: Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Reaches General Availability

In November’s Agile EO episode, we introduced Analysis-Ready PlanetScope (ARPS)—a new offering that accelerates your analytical workflows with pre-processed, harmonized satellite imagery. Watch the webinar on-demand. Below are some questions we received during the event and resources to learn more. Questions Question: Is there a technical product sheet for today's products?Answer: The Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Technical Specification is available here. Question: How do you reduce the clouds or select the images with minimal clouds?Answer: Analysis-Ready PlanetScope does not remove clouds. It composites the best available PlanetScope pixel taken over an AOI based on the amount of cloud cover and quality. The cloud mask is produced by creating a cloud-free reference image using a year’s archive of PlanetScope, Sentinel-2, and Landsat. Question: Can Analysis-Ready PlanetScope data be accessed in Planet Explorer?Answer: No, currently, there is no support for viewing Analysis-Ready Plane

alaaelddin‎‎ 🌱

When I zoom in on the map, it appears pixelated and not completely clear. What is the solution? And how do I make it not pixelated even though my zoom is not great?

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2 months ago

Dinh Hung‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Xin gia hạn tài khoản

Xin chào,Hiện tại tôi đang sử dụng hình ảnh PlanetScope để phân tích dữ liệu thông tin biến động rừng của mình. Tuy nhiên, tôi nhận thấy Tài khoản Giáo dục và Nghiên cứu của mình đã hết hạn. Tôi có thể yêu cầu gia hạn cho tài khoản của mình không? Ngoài ra, hiện tại tôi cần lượng dữ liệu lớn hơn. Tôi có thể tăng giới hạn tải xuống hàng tháng cho tài khoản của mình không?Cảm ơn bạn rất nhiều vì sự giúp đỡ của bạn. Tôi mong nhận được phản hồi của bạn.

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2 months ago

Frankdent‎‎ 🌱

posted in PlanetScope

How do you balance the mosaic images?

I would like to know how to balance the mosaic images. I would like to do a classification but it seems like some images have the red value as twice of the other images, even those from the same day. Is there a color balancing I can do?

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2 months ago

JaquelineS‎‎ 🌱

posted in PlanetScope

supervised classification

How to perform supervised classification with PlanetScope images?

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2 months ago

Ray Fu‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

How to show a high-resolution imagery

Hi,I downloaded a few high-resolution images, but I found it is not clear enough when I opened it using QGIS. Is there any special operation required before you can see a clear image (three meter resolution)?

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2 months ago

Chunli‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

What is the DEM used for orthorectification of PlanetScope images

We are using Planetscope images (psscene) for mapping surface displacement. Our work needs to know the DEM used in the orthorectification, so we can decide if we can un-orthorectify and re-orthorectify with the DEMs after an event. How can I get such information. Thanks,Chunli

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2 months ago

heigis‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Updating Subscription Geometries

Just got word that a few farmers submitted inaccurate geometries for their fields (maybe 7 or 8 fields in all). I looked at the sentinelhub API and there doesn’t appear to a means for updating a subscription so assuming I need to delete these 7 or 8 subscriptions and then subscribe to them again with the correct geometries? If this is not the case, please let me know. Was thinking there might be a way to just update the geometry for each field subscription but maybe not. Thank you.

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2 months ago

Adnan Siddique‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Can we make a dataset prepared with Planet imagery public?

Hi everyoneI have prepared a dataset with Planet imagery, which I accessed under the “Planet Education & Research Program”. I wrote a conference paper on it, which is now published: M. A. Siddique et al., "Towards Automated Monitoring Of Glacial Lakes In Hindu Kush And Himalayas Using Deep Learning," IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2023, pp. 2165-2168, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS52108.2023.10281471. I have acknowledge Planet as well. I am wondering whether I can make this dataset public for use by other researchers. What is Planet’s policy on that? Can I do so? I’ll thankful if anyone here can guide me.RegardsAdnanhttps://sites.google.com/itu.edu.pk/rsa-lab/

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3 months ago

probinso‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

How can I get a list of norad ids for the different constellations?

I am looking for a list of all the historical and current norad ids for PlanetScope and the other collections. When I search online by name I am seeing some satellites up as Flock, but I don’t know where a complete list is. Where can I find a complete list of these satellites or their ids?

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3 months ago

NSJacobs‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

RGB band normalization from TIFF to JPEG in python yields weird hues & inconsistency

I am trying to use Python to convert a directory of 4 band PlanetScope Surface Reflectance TIFF tiles to RGB JPEGs so I can upload the smaller, easy to visualize JPEG files to LabelBox for manually labeling Arctic lakes as either ice covered or ice free.I have thrown together a script (relevant functions attached below) which reads in the bands from each of my downloaded TIFF files (I have around 100 right now) and normalizes each of them to 0-255 for conversion to JPEG. I have tried many different normalization algorithms, including histogram stretching, but all methods so far leave almost all my images with significant red, green or blue tint, which makes identifying which lakes are ice covered vs. ice free much more difficult (example of blue tint below.)Is there a way to automatically process RGB files for each of my scenes which will appear without these tints, more like the rgb preview images shown on Planet Explorer? (Or is there a way to directly download pre-processed RGB dir

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3 months ago

agus aris‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Steps to extend my account further

I would like to contact you regarding my account, which I am currently using as an Education and Research Standard account, but it has been inactive since September 15, 2024. Could you please inform me of the steps I need to take to renew my account?I appreciate your assistance and look forward to your guidance.

AS-22‎‎ 🌱

Hi, I am using Planet Explorer for an educational research program.The other day, around 8 pm (CST), Explorer stopped retrieving images.Of course, I did not exceed the usage limit, nor did I change any settings, I was logged in and using it as usual.I can't find a solution whether this behavior is a bug or a problem on our end.If you could help us, we would appreciate your response.

Haiyan Huang‎‎ 🌱

Hi, According to the Planet UDM2 documentation, UDM2.1 is better than UDM2.I downloaded an image (20240810_090129_25_2460), and the bundle contains two TIFF files: SR.tif and udm2.tif.How can I verify whether the udm2 file corresponds to UDM2.0 or UDM2.1 Best,Haiyan

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4 months ago

bajajraj‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Getting Error while exporting Planet Images to Google Earth Engine.

Hi,I am trying to import Planet Images into Google Earth Engine. I am following all the steps required which includes creating a Cloud Project, enabling the Google Earth Engine API, giving access to Planet account and Earth Engine writer in IAM section. After following the steps, when I am ordering the images, my delivery fails and I am getting following error - "Error while calling the GEE image import API: failed to trigger GEE ingestion: googleapi: Error 403: Google Earth Engine API has not been enabled in project: y.".I am not sure why I am getting the following error. If anyone can help me with this, it will be great.Thank You.

Angela‎‎ 🌱

Am currently doing my project with E& R quota credits data,am wondering if am allowed to share the images when am submitting my work to a journal

Cloud mask with PlanetScope NCFI

Hello, I want to generate a cloud mask using a single band from a PlanetScope image of the NCFI monthly mosaics. Which band would you recommend and why? I want to clarify that I'm not interested in combining bands, but rather in working with just one band to create the cloud mask.

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5 months ago

Matheus de Aguiar Sant Ana‎‎ 🌱

asked in PlanetScope

Questions about band 5 of the nanosatellite Super Dove

What is the importance of band 5 of the yellow nanosatellite Super Dove? Do you have any articles or reports showing the importance of this band for agricultural productivity and vegetation health?

Downloading PlanetScope scenes

I’m very new to Planet and have been using Planet Explorer to to search for higher resolution imagery than Sentinel 2 data. Planet Scope scenes appear to cover my AOI. In the explorer the Add to Cart button is greyed out. How can I purchase / download these scenes?

max323‎‎ 🌱

I have downloaded several planet PS Scenes, all of them are captured by PSB.SD. According to https://developers.planet.com/docs/data/planetscope/, the image size should be 32.5 * 19.6 km2. However, when I use python to load the tiff file and print the numpy array shape, I get following results. All images have different size, and some are significantly smaller than others, like (547, 13063). Why is it like this? I can provide the file name if it is necessary. Thanks. (8519, 11745) (9018, 13084) (7716, 13091) (9424, 12945) (5661, 4270) (9410, 13041) (8524, 11748) (9439, 12959) (9407, 13028) (8515, 11734) (9419, 13039) (3742, 13094) (547, 13063) (8570, 5336) (9390, 13051) (8578, 8503) (1973, 12990) (7370, 12967) (8577, 6384) (3999, 9560) (5910, 13025) (2293, 13087) (5041, 13054) (9432, 12959) (8583, 7444) (7560, 11803) (7586, 11785) (2799, 11786) (6345, 13019)

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5 months ago

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