Planet API 101

An Introduction for Beginners

Stanford Geospatial Center

Stanford University Libraries

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To support the use of geospatial technologies in research and teaching at Stanford

(whatever that means at any given time)

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a tiny introduction to

remote sensing

Digital images are made of pixels, and pixels are representations of numeric values

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Those values represent the amount of reflected electromagnetic energy

(which is everywhere, and everything reflects or absorbs it differently, and measurably)

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What's Special about Planet.com Imagery?

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Planet is a 3m image of the Earth, every day.

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Getting on the Stanford Planet.com account

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What we have access to:

Instant Access

• Planetscope Daily Imagery
• Planetscope Composite Basemaps

Application Access

• SkySat Archive (6mo embargo)
• SkySat Tasking (4 x 25sqkm Images)

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Using Planet.com data

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Planet Explorer

• GUI for searching by:
  • Area of Interest
  • Data Type (Scenes vs Basemaps)
  • Metadata: Cloud Cover, % Coverage, Off-Nadir Angle, etc...
• Submit "Orders" for download
• "Orders" notified through email

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Planet Basemap Explorer

• View Monthly & Quarterly "Basemaps"
• Download "Quads" or ~20kmx20km basemap mosaics

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Orders & Basemap APIs

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• Search for imagery
  • Location, Date, Cloud Cover, etc...
• Download imagery
  • Single Image
  • Parallelized bulk download
• API Tile Service
  • Returns TIMS XYZ Tile Services
• XYZ TMS & WMTS (Monthly & Quarterly Composites

ArcGIS Pro & QGIS Plug-ins

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• Search for imagery
  • Location, Date, CloudCover, etc...
• Download imagery
  • Preview Imagery
  • Single Image

Python Notebooks

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planetlabs/notebooks

• Search, activate, download with the Data API

• Ordering, delivery, and tools with the Orders API

• Feeds, Subscriptions, and Results with the Analytics API

• Process Planet data

• Analyze and visualize Planet data

What can you do with Planet.com data?

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Create a complete catalog of all dams, on Earth

Charlotte Weil - Natural Capital

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Detecting Ancient Reservoirs

Andrew Bauer & Claudia Engel, Stanford Anthropology

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Assess impact of fuel aid distributed to refugee settlements

Chris LeBoa

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Making Pastoralists Count

Hannah Binzen Wild & Stace Maples

Stanford School of Medicine

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Thanks!

maples@stanford.edu

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For more, go to gis.stanford.edu

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Thanks, again!

maples@stanford.edu

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For more, go to LK308 at 1:45pm