In a previous post, Alan introduced our Surface Reflectance imagery, an exciting product that delivers an accurate picture of what’s happening on the ground. By accounting for the effects of the atmosphere, sensor characteristics, and incident solar radiation, we aim to provide as near as possible to true reflectance of the Earth’s surface. For our latest release, we’ve taken all the benefits of Surface Reflectance imagery and paired them with our Basemaps – wide area mosaics with preselected, composited, and gridded scenes. Voilá! We give you Surface Reflectance Basemaps, our analysis-ready, Basemaps product, which eliminates an enormous amount of processing work for our customers and partners. Planet’s unmatched ability to provide daily coverage along with new atmospherically-corrected data allow us to deliver a basemap product no one else comes close to. These four-band basemaps are immediately useful for applications that perform quantitative analysis based on pixel values, across any area or time of interest. [caption id="attachment_4399" align="aligncenter" width="2734"]

Surface Reflectance Basemaps Product Overview