What Is the Typical Use Case for Area Under Management (AUM) and How Is PU Consumption Calculated?

A typical AUM use case is to monitor agricultural fields throughout the year to observe changes and ensure crop health. Here’s an example scenario of how the PUs are calculated.

Example

*PlanetScope Scene is a single image captured by a PlanetScope satellite. For more information, refer to the PlanetScope documentation.

**For this use case, two assets are provided for each observation.

• PlanetScope 8-band atmospherically corrected surface reflectance product (ortho_analytic_8b_sr), and
• Sentinel-2

Two tools are used for both assets, including:

• Clip: Used to define and process specific areas of interest. Consumes  1 PU
• Harmonize: Ensures data consistency across multiple satellite sources like PlanetScope and Sentinel-2. Consumes 2 PU

PU Consumption Breakdown

1. Asset Consumption

To observe agricultural fields throughout the year, acquire assets for the entire year. Since we have already defined the input parameters where two assets are needed per day and we need 292 days, we can calculate how many PUs are needed for the assets based on the price: 20 PUs per activation to access one asset.

2. Tools Consumption

Each tool has the PU price, and we need to take into account all the input fields and the number of days and multiply it with PUs per use to get the total PUs needed to use the tools.

Tools Total: 2,920 PU + 5,840 PU = 8,760 PU/year

3. Summary of Total PU Consumption for the Year

We have been focusing on the yearly PUs, but the Platform plans have monthly limits, so we will now calculate the monthly average and convert the calculated monthly PU consumption into $$.

• Monthly Average: ~1,710 PU
• Cost Estimate: ~$17 per year or ~$1.42 per month (based on current PU rate for annual Enterprise-L Platform access plan)

Additional PU Considerations

4. Egress cost

Data download (egress) costs vary by data size. Example calculation: