Planet Overview

Leaf provides an integration with Planet, fetching PlanetScope images from a back-fill and forward-fill specified by the user. PlanetScope provides numerus categories of products from different satellite sensors called itemTypes and for each one, we have different assetType. For now, we only support PSOrthoTile and the assets analytic_5b (18 images), analytic_sr (12 images) and udm2. Being these images between RBG, NDVI, NDRE GeoTiffs and Multiband images. For more information on those assets check the documentation.

Also, Leaf handles all the subscription process internally, in order to bring foward-filled images as area available from Planet.

The following table shows all the images with its resolutions and types: (TIFs are EPSG:4326, PNGs are EPSG:3857).

NameResolution (m)TypeProjection
NDVI.pngNULLpng NDVIEPSG:3857
NDRE.pngNULLpng NDREEPSG:3857
RGB.pngNULLpng RGBEPSG:3857
multi_band.tif3multi bandEPSG:4326
NDVI.tif3tif raw NDVI valuesEPSG:4326
NDVI_color.tif3tif colored NDVIEPSG:4326
NDRE.tif3tif raw NDRE valuesEPSG:4326
NDRE_color.tif3tif colored NDREEPSG:4326
RGB.tif3tif RGBEPSG:4326
blue.tif3single bandEPSG:4326
green.tif3single bandEPSG:4326
red.tif3single bandEPSG:4326
nir.tif3single bandEPSG:4326
rededge.tif *3single bandEPSG:4326
NDVI_relative.pngNULLpng relative NDVIEPSG:3857
NDVI_absolute.pngNULLpng absolute NDVIEPSG:3857
NDRE_relative.pngNULLpng relative NDREEPSG:3857
NDRE_absolute.pngNULLpng absolute NDREEPSG:3857

* The red edge image will be available by using the assetType: analitic_5b (red edge band) where the default value is analitic_sr which are images with atmospheric reflectance correction.

See the Crop Monitoring API Reference for more information.

Available asset types

analytic_sr

Atmospherically corrected surface reflectance GeoTiff product.

FileBand name
blue.tifBlue
green.tifGreen
red.tifRed
nir.tifNear-infrared

analytic_5b

Radiometrically calibrated GeoTiff product suitable for analytic applications. Has 5 analytic bands, including red-edge.

FileBand name
blue.tifBlue
green.tifGreen
red.tifRed
rededge.tifRed-Edge
nir.tifNear-infrared

udm2

Usable Data Mask 2.0.

File
clear_map.tif
snow_map.tif
shadow_map.tif
light_haze_map.tif
heavy_haze_map.tif
cloud_map.tif
confidence_map.tif

PSOrthoTile

More info at Planet documentation.