Alden Ackerman
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Using the right credential: API keys, OAuth tokens and 401 errors
Planet APIs live on two domains, and they don't accept the same credentials. APIs on api.planet.com accept API keys and OAuth user tokens. APIs on services.sentinel-hub.com accept only OAuth tokens...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Common vertex and geometry problems
Planet APIs reject geometries that are too complex or invalid. If your subscription, order, or feature upload fails because of its geometry, this article explains the limits and how to fix your AOI...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Understanding my Planet Insights Platform Account
You've completed your purchase, but you or your team can't use the product yet. This is expected. If your account uses workspaces, new quota goes to your customer account, not to a workspace. An Ac...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Account Admins: 5 steps after you purchase
New to Planet? Follow the section that matches you. Most people are ready in a few minutes. I bought Planet for my team (you're the Account Admin): go to Account Admins. Someone invited me (you'r...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, What the view_angle value in scene metadata means
Scene metadata includes a view_angle property. This article explains what the value means, why it can be negative, and which imagery sources return negative values.What view_angle measuresview_angl...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Planet Tile Streaming FAQ
What is a tile?A tile is a 256x256 pixel image (a “Tile”) that represents a certain portion of the earth at a particular zoom level. Web applications stream many tiles to your browser or applicati...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, How the Traffic Light System Turns Marker Results into Decisions
The Traffic Light System (TLS) evaluates logical rules that compare observed conditions with criteria for compliance to a particular scheme or measure. It assigns one of the following codes to each...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Understanding Marker Service API responses in Area Monitoring
The Marker Service API is a RESTful interface to the various Area Monitoring markers. This article describes the structure of the marker data it returns, so you can interpret responses for each mar...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, Tasking API orders
The Planet Tasking API (2.0) provides high-resolution satellite imagery as a service. A tasking order is a request to capture new imagery of a specific area of interest (AOI) within a given time of...
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Alden Ackerman created an article, How crop and land-use markers classify parcels in Area Monitoring
The crop- and land-group markers determine whether an agricultural parcel (FOI — feature of interest) is consistent with its declared crop and land use. Both markers share the same architecture; th...
