PlanetScope (RESA) - Level 3A OrthoTile

The PlanetScope satellite constellation, called ‘Flock’, consists of multiple launches of groups of individual Dove satellites into a 400 km orbit. Some of them were launched from the ISS. Therefore, on-orbit capacity is constantly improving in capability or quantity. Each Dove satellite is a CubeSat with a size of 10 x 10 x 34 cm. The complete PlanetScope constellation of approximately 130 satellites is able to image the entire land surface of the Earth every day, equating to a daily collection capacity of 200 million km².

In 2014 the first Dove satellites started operationally acquiring images from the earth’s surface. The optical sensors mounted on the individual Dove satellites operate in the visual and near-infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum with a spatial resolution between 3 and 5 meters. A third generation of PlanetScope sensors (known as SuperDove or PSB.SD) is currently in orbit and is

producing limited quantities of imagery with 5 spectral bands (BGRNIR + Red Edge). These satellites have the potential to produce imagery with 8 separate spectral bands. The RapidEye Science Archive (RESA), which allows Germany-based researchers to apply for free PlanetScope imagery, is operated by the German Satellite Data Archive (D-SDA) of DLR’s Earth Observation Center and can be accessed via the EOWEB Geoportal. New PlanetScope data as well as archive data which is not yet part of the RESA collections can be applied for at Planet Labs Germany GmbH under the RESA contract. For more information see: https://www.planet.com/resa/

This collection comprises the PlanetScope L3A OrthoTile products which are orthorectified as individual 25 km by 25 km tiles referenced to a fixed, standard image tile grid system. The OrthoTile products are radiometrically-, sensor-, and geometrically-corrected and aligned to a cartographic map projection. The Surface Reflectance layer which corrects for the effects of the Earth's atmosphere is included in the product.

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Planet Labs, Inc.. PlanetScope (RESA) - Level 3A OrthoTile. https://gdk.gdi-de.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6591f901-5fdd-431f-89fc-737c5984baf1

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Date ( Creation ): 2021-07-30T12:00:00

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Identifier: https://geoservice.dlr.de/catalogue/srv/metadata/6591f901-5fdd-431f-89fc-737c5984baf1

Presentation form: Digital image

Purpose

Status: ongoing

Point of contact

Planet Labs, Inc.

Point of contact

German Space Agency at DLR

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Planet Labs, Inc. - ( )

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Orthoimagery

Spatial scope ( Theme )

Global

Keywords

urn:eop:DLR:EOWEB:PlanetScope.RESA.L3A_OrthoTile
PlanetScope
Level 3A
OrthoTile
Optical
visible wavelengths
infrared wavelengths

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