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Satellite imagery has already transformed how we see the world.The next step is more important: how we act on what we see.Across conflict zones, climate-affected regions, and areas of forced displacement, high-resolution satellite data increasingly reveals patterns of risk before humanitarian catastrophes escalate. Yet today, this data remains largely reactive, fragmented, or commercially siloed.I would like to open a strategic discussion around three questions:1️⃣ Early Warning vs. Post-Event DocumentationHow can satellite monitoring evolve from documenting damage after it happens to triggering early civilian protection alerts?2️⃣ Accountability & NeutralityWhat governance models could allow satellite data to support international accountability mechanisms while preserving scientific neutrality and commercial integrity?3️⃣ F

Hi all,Some of our field staff would like to be able to view the SPOT mosaic which is served up as WMTS layer in Google Earth, either desktop or online. Is there a way to do that?Thanks!SN

Am I able to order any data under my current 30day free trial? My account seems to say I have some units to be able to download but I can not add anything to be ordered when looking at data. Thanks

Hi everyone,I’m currently exploring how to use VIIRS data as a replacement for MODIS imagery in our monitoring platform. I can access to MODIS through Sentinel Hub’s Request Builder and EO Browser, but those datasets no longer provide recent imagery.We’re now looking for a way to access recent VIIRS data (e.g., VNP43IA4 or equivalent) — ideally through an API — so it can be processed or integrated into our own monitoring system.I understand that Planet’s Analysis Ready PlanetScope (ARPS) products are radiometrically harmonized with MODIS/VIIRS data, so I’d like to confirm: Does Planet provide direct access to VIIRS imagery (or derived products) via its API? If not, is there any recommended workflow or source (e.g., NASA LP DAAC, NOAA, or third-party integration) to retrieve current VIIRS data that could later be combined with Planet imagery?

In the following stac server endpoint https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1/collections/sentinel-2-l1cThere is a bug in Sentinel 2 L1C stac items assets hrefs for dates before july 2023.For example for date “2023/07/07”, tile “MGRS-21HUB” and asset “blue” the s3 href should be like this: s3://sentinel-s2-l1c/tiles/21/H/UB/2023/7/7/0/B02.jp2but actually is like thiss3://sentinel-s2-l2a/tiles/21/H/UB/2023/7/7/0/B02.jp2here is a code snippet for checking it: from pystac_client import ClientSTAC_URL = "https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1"stac_client = Client.open(STAC_URL)stac_client.add_conforms_to("ITEM_SEARCH")l1c_items = stac_client.search( collections=["sentinel-2-l1c"],

I want to plot true-color Planet image from bands reflectance. I found the code in https://docs.sentinel-hub.com/api/latest/data/planet/planet-scope/examples/#true-color-full-3-meter-resolution; however, how to achieve that by Python code?

HiI just watched the excellent Wild Wild Space Documentary and as a non rocket nerd (I am a huge VR nerd) I was unaware of all three companies featured.  I am familiar wih Space X and it’s evil overlord, Blue Origin and it’s celebrity chasing dweeb and a bare blip of Virgin, and of course growing up with NASA - my high school year book cover featured a holographic pic of the moon landing as my hometown built one of the space capsules.  I have always been proud of humanity’s ventures into space and the tech it has spawned that has benefited and enriched our lives.  I truly thought we be living like the Jetsons by year 2000 and  not prepping for the Y2K apocalypse.  But some things have evolved quite fast and furious as noted in the film.The insane privatization of low earth orbit space has sky rocketed (pun intended, sue me) and the race to send thousands more sats up there is concerning, to say he least, and rather horrifying as the competition for dominance / supremac

I have had an Planet account. But i don’t know how to download planet satelite imagery through QGIS. Do i need to purchase planet satelite imagery or Apply for free?  

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Hi,I am trying to use the PRIORITY custom parameter in WCSRequest as referenced here. Whenever i run the code to use it, i get the following error : TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'priority'. How do i make this work?Thanks,Sidharrth

Hello, I am Bilal from Morocco. I have a plot of land that I want in two areas. I found signs of Jewish and French cemeteries for soldiers. The place I am in is in front of a military barracks that was established in 1904 by the French.

Hi,We are evaluating Sentinel Hub for our application, which needs to stream Planet data via WMS to our users.Our use case involves:Many distinct fields (AOIs), each with its own Planet data. Each user has permission to view a dynamic subset of these fields.Our proposed approach is to create a separate BYOC collection for each field. For a given user, we would then create a Configuration that includes all the collections (fields) they have access to.The issue we've encountered is that this creates separate layers for each collection in the Configuration. For example, an NDVI layer appears as COLLECTION_A_NDVI, COLLECTION_B_NDVI, etc. We want to provide a single NDVI layer that seamlessly renders data from the appropriate collections based on the viewing area.What is the recommended way to achieve this in Sentinel Hub? Is our "one collection per AOI" approach correct, or

Dear Planet Community and Leadership,My name is Hasan Al Shareef, an Independent UN Expert and President of AGDO.e.V (Arab/German Green Development Organization).Over the past week, I’ve had the honor of actively contributing to the Planet Community and was recently ranked among the top contributors globally. These engagements reflect my deep commitment to leveraging Earth observation data for humanitarian and climate-related work, particularly in conflict-affected and environmentally stressed regions.In this context, I would like to formally propose offering my role as an Independent Strategic Advisor for Planet in the Arab region.This collaboration would focus on: Expanding Planet’s humanitarian and climate use cases across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Facilitating strategic connections with regional NGOs, governm

 To: Planet Developer Relations & Planet University TeamDear Planet Team,I hope this message finds you well.My name is Hasan Al Shareef, an Independent UN Expert and President of AGDO.e.V (Arab/German Green Development Organization). We are currently leading a humanitarian initiative focused on mapping water resource dynamics and monitoring ecological stress in arid and semi-arid regions, using remote sensing data for real-time, evidence-based decision-making.Over the past few days, we have engaged deeply with the Planet Community platform and received valuable support and engagement, including from @elyhienrich. We’ve also proposed a new feature request for a Dynamic Water-Resource Dashboard in Planet Explorer, and contributed to discussions around PlanetScope-based monitoring strategies.Given this momentum and our organizational capaci

Bula,I am new here and i have been watching Planet labs for abit on youtube as well as reading abit about all over the internet. I am very interested in learning more about planet Labs as well as how can I use ths informaition. If anyone is from Fiji here  i would be keen to have chat but also, kina lost on where to start. I am interested in the agriculture aspect of this. Can someone point me in the right direction. Also most of this stuff is new to me as I am here out of curiosity and like learning new things

Happy to share our latest publication with the community: https://caribjes.com/CJESpdf/CJES55-4-Ramsewak-NarivaSwampTrinidad.pdfGrateful to all co-authors and collaborators.

Hello, and thank you for allowing me into your community. I need help. On 2021 I fell the sidewalk was half shoveled of snow and ice is there any way I can prove this using satellite imagery? I sustained a traumatic brain injury from the fall and left me with lifelong symptoms. One other thing I am not sure of where to post my message.

GOOD AFTERNOON Dear Community.While processing with acolite. i fell on NETCDF ERRORs. Behold, here is what was being written to notify that there is an error.Wrote rhos_783S2A_MSI/B7 took 177.3s (RevLUT)Wrote rhot_833Computing surface reflectance 8 833 0.943Interpolating tilesProcess Process-1:Traceback (most recent call last):  File "multiprocessing\process.py", line 314, in _bootstrap  File "acolite\acolite\acolite_gui.py", line 33, in run  File "acolite\acolite\acolite_gui.py", line 28, in run  File "multiprocessing\process.py", line 108, in run  File "acolite\acolite\acolite_run.py", line 208, in acolite_run  File "acolite\acolite\acolite_l2r.py", line 1533, in acolite_l2r  File "acolite\gem\gem.py", line 174, in write  File "acolite\output\nc_write.py", line 271, in nc_write  File "src\\netCDF4\\_netCDF4.pyx", line 5630, in netCDF4._netCDF4.Variable.__setitem__  File "s

The Geoinformatics Department at the Geology Institute, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, invites you to participate in our cutting-edge research project titled:"Geoecological Monitoring, Condition Assessment, and Rehabilitation of Landscapes Affected by the War in Ukraine."Research Objectives: Damage Assessment: Conduct a scientific evaluation of the scale and nature of damage in post-conflict urban and agricultural landscapes, identifying both immediate and long-term environmental impacts. Reclamation and Rehabilitation: Develop strategies for the sustainable rehabilitation of damaged lands, focusing on the rational use of resources, landscape restoration, and rebuilding of infrastructure. Integration of Geomatics Technologies: Employ state-of-the-art geospatial tools, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Digital Terrain Model

Dear All,I want to find contrail images taken from above with the aim of measuring their width versus distance from the plane, over a distance of several kilometers. I believe the information exists on satellite photos, but I am unable to find them on my own.Here's an example of the type of shot I'm looking for, but with much better resolution :https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Contrails_nasa2004October13.jpgCould someone please help me with some suggestions? Thanks in advance !Best,Serge

Hi community, is there a service that provides information about the mangrove's extension and sea level rise under climate change scenarios? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I’m a new user in Planet and I’d like to measure the number of people gathering for certain events in Mexico. What would be the best way of doing this?I know the date, time and location of events, which sometimes overlap with the timing when the satellite images are taken. I don’t know too much of remote sensing, but my idea was to measure the spatial distribution of image tone intensities, comparing images of a same location with and without the gathering.I’d appreciate if I could get any feedback on how to implement this! One of my questions is what is the appropriate meters per pixel that image that I should use? What is the minimum size of a gathering that I could detect?Example: I know that in this park (24.022724971695283, -104.67158198775181) there was a political gathering on June 21, 2018 around the time the image was taken. Hopefully, if there were enough people attending, I would be able to observe this, right?Thanks for any directions or s

Can someone help me to identify the water, which is in some place is covered by trees`?

This question is not about visualization so it may not be related to https://community.planet.com/topic/show?tid=159&fid=3 even there are some similarities. My issue is that I am feeding a Keras model where I need to basically use a 0.0 to 1.0 color space. Now for regular RGB images I would simply do a rescaling with /255. For Sentinel2 I’d do /10000 but what is the correct factor for Planet```PSSceneAsset types    ortho_analytic_4b_sr    ortho_analytic_4b_xml    ortho_udm2```I do not want an individual range per scene but a “standard” rescaling factor. If there are outliers (as with Sentinel2 NIR channel) this would be Ok.thank you very much for your support.

Hello every one!I would like to know if there is any document up to date that contains information about all the satélites, such as its constellation, the day of launch, orbital parameters and so on. I have looked for it and couldn't find anything, if anyone knows where I can find this info other than in Planet Labs public ephemerides I would really apreciated it. Thank you in advance,Oscar Gamallo