Alden Ackerman
Articles
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Downloading QGIS
To install QGIS, use the official QGIS download page: Download QGIS.Note: QGIS is not a Planet product, and Planet is not responsible for QGIS-related support. QGIS is available for Windows, macOS,...
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Two ways to create a feature collection for your areas of interest (AOIs) — through the Features Manager interface, or programmatically with the Features API.
Planet uses a two-step system: you first upload your Area of Interest (AOI) to create a Feature Collection, and then use that collection's unique reference ID to deploy your data feeds. Option 1 — ...
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Planet’s Approach to Rectifying Sentinel-2 Imagery Issues
Sentinel-2 is managed by the European Space Agency (ESA). For that reason, Planet does not have the ability to rectify Sentinel-2 imagery.Note: Planet ended support for public datasets on July 31, ...
