Planet Labs opens its satellite feed to the world
Planet Labs' open satellite feed
Planet Labs, the San Francisco-based satellite manufacturer and constellation operator, now offers an open feed of its satellite data. With 97 satellites still in orbit, the company captures imagery of Earth's entire landmass daily. This article details how to access and query the feed using tools like wget and DuckDB, and highlights recent launches, including the Pelican-11 satellite deployed by SpaceX's Transporter 17 mission.
Planet Labs is a 15-year-old, San Francisco-based satellite manufacturer and constellation operator.
- smallerfish
I wish Planet had better pricing for nonprofits. I co-run a conservation nonprofit focused on deforestation in Latin America, and our affordable choices are between 2 year old Google Earth imagery, 10m resolution Nimbo imagery (ok, but not sufficiently detailed to be evidentiary), and Sentinel 1 SAR data, which is useful but very noisy. Planet quoted us something like $30k per year for a strip of coastline that represents something like 5% of the territory we're monitoring, so it's just not a viable option under their current pricing model.
- Avicebron
Refreshingly doesn't feel like AI. If someone asked me "what does software engineering look like", I would point to this.
- maelito
Also checkout https://nlnet.nl/project/Mapterhorn-imagery for planet high-def satellite PMtiles. Not yet released.