Planet Basemaps is our solution for providing comprehensive, high-frequency, visually stunning, and analysis-ready mosaics. For years, we have referred to them as both basemaps and mosaics. However, these two terms actually have slightly different meanings.
A basemap typically refers to a visual backdrop for maps, apps, and analysis.
A mosaic, in the geospatial sense, refers to a collection of raster datasets that have been stitched together into a single larger dataset. While also an effective visual backdrop, mosaics can also be used for raster and geospatial analysis and can power AI and machine learning workflows.
Our solution supports all these workflows. So to provide better clarity, we have renamed Planet Basemaps to Planet Mosaics.
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