With an industry-leading combination of coverage and cadence, Planet delivers Earth imaging data at unprecedented scale. Planet’s 15 SkySat satellites gather over 400K km²/day of images which are added to the archive daily.
Product Description
The SkySat archive contains some of the highest quality satellite imagery in the world, with a resolution of up to 0.7 meters. Imagery is available from as far back as 2014. Four bands are available for analysis, including R G B and NR.
The rich archive is perfect for monitoring historical change and assessing trends with the most recent before and after images available, and for use to train machine learning and computer vision algorithms.
Depending on application and level of expertise, imagery is offered in 6 processing levels: Visual, Pansharpened Multispectral, Analytic, Analytic DN, Panchromatic, and Panchromatic DN. Please see the table below for more details about each level.
Provider:
Off the shelf
Resolution
Access mode
Format
Delivery time
Basic Scene Product (L1A)
- Analytic - unorthorectified, radiometrically corrected, multispectral BGRN
- Analytic DN - unorthorectified, multispectral BGRN
- Panchromatic - unorthorectified, radiometrically corrected, panchromatic (PAN)
- Panchromatic DN - unorthorectified, panchromatic (PAN)
- L1A Panchromatic DN - unorthorectified, pre-super resolution, panchromatic (PAN)
Ortho Scene Product (L3A)
- Visual - orthorectified, pansharpened, and color-corrected (using a color curve) 3-band RGB Imagery
- Pansharpened Multispectral - orthorectified, pansharpened 4-band BGRN Imagery
- Analytic - orthorectified, multispectral BGRN. Radiometric corrections applied to correct for any sensor
artifacts and transformation to top-of-atmosphere radiance - Analytic DN - orthorectified, multispectral BGRN, uncalibrated digital number imagery product
Radiometric corrections applied to correct for any sensor artifacts - Panchromatic - orthorectified, radiometrically correct, panchromatic (PAN)
- Panchromatic DN - orthorectified, panchromatic (PAN), uncalibrated digital number imagery product
SkySat Technical Information
| Basic Scene | Ortho Scene & SkySat Collect | |
| Ground sample distance | Pan: 0.72 m, Multispectral: 1.0 m | Pan: 0.8 m, Multispectral: 1.0 m |
| Pixel Resolution | N/A | Analytic, Analytic DN: 1.0 m ; Panchromatic DN, Visual Pansharpened Multispectral: 0.8 m |
| Spectral bands | R G B NIR PAN | R G B NIR PAN |
| Bit depth | 16-Bit | 16-Bit |
| Geometric precision | <50 m RMSE | <10 m RMSE |
| File structure | GeoTIFF | GeoTIFF |
| Radiometric conversion | Analytic product - Absolute Radiance derived using vicarious calibration methods. Radiometrically calibrated to radiance units and scaled by 100 to reduce quantization errors | |
| Revisit time | Nadir: 28 days per spacecraft, sub-weekly per constellation. Off-nadir: sub-weekly per spacecraft, sub daily per constellation | |
Please note
There is no minimum AOI for archived data.
Pricing / Licensing
Planet Terms of Use and cloudeo Terms & Conditions apply.
