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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Search, activate, download with the Data API
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Ordering, delivery, and tools with the Orders API
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Feeds, Subscriptions, and Results with the Analytics API
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Process Planet data
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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