Data on the platform is managed in Data Collections. Data Collections can contain any georeferenced raster data. Several data collections are readily available for all users, and some require a purchase of data first.

Readily available data collections include:

• Public datasets such as Sentinel and Landsat.
• Planet Sandbox Data, which we make available to try out various Planet products.
• More datasets from Planet and the community that you can explore here.

You can also create additional data collections to work with data you purchase or have in your own cloud. Managing this data in data collections on the platform enables you to use data management, analysis, streaming, and other features on Planet Insights Platform.

• Planet data that you purchase can be delivered into a data collection (see access data).
• Georeferenced raster data stored in your own AWS S3 bucket can be registered using the Bring Your Own COG (BYOC) service.

You can use Data Collections to see and control what data is in collections. Additionally, you can use the following APIs to further manage data collections:

• Orders API or Subscriptions API to order Planet Data and deliver it into a data collection.
• BYOC API to register your data with a collection and access it just like any other data on the platform.
• Catalog API to search through the data in collections using the Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification.