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Easily order individual tasks with pay-as-you-go flexibility

High-Resolution Imagery with Planet Satellite Tasking

At 50 cm resolution, Planet Tasking provides organizations with near-real-time intelligence to proactively identify blind spots, anticipate events, and have confidence in the next mission-critical decision.

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Rapid revisit, Global Intelligence

Reliable, High-Resolution Data from Around the World

With ~15 SkySats in orbit, Planet offers the most frequent, intraday revisit capability of any commercial provider, capturing actionable insights sub-daily for for real-time decision making.

Rapid Revisit

Multiple revisits per day, the highest frequency commercially available

High-Resolution

Enhanced 50 cm ortho spatial resolution images

Tip and Cue

Leverage Planet Monitoring and Tasking constellations for a simple Tip and Cue workflow

Global Coverage

An average of 2,400 archival images of every spot on Earth’s landmass

Rapid Delivery

High-resolution images and insights delivered less than three hours from capture

Workflow Integration

Access data and imagery within existing workflows with Planet’s API

With Planet’s automated Tasking Dashboard, you can request high-frequency satellite imagery and data, stereo collection for 3D models and DEM construction, off-nadir imagery, and videos of any location in the world.

How to task a satellite

Powerful, Flexible Access to High-Resolution Imagery

Tasking a satellite is now more flexible than ever. Whether you need a quick, one-time image or a scalable solution for ongoing projects, Planet makes satellite tasking simple.

Use our Single Order Tasking portal for ease of access and pay-as-you-go flexibility, or unlock the full capabilities of the Tasking Dashboard for an efficient, integrated workflow with tasking credits.

NEW!

Single Order Tasking

Access satellite imagery quickly and pay-as-you-go in the Single Order Tasking portal powered by our partners at SkyFi. Gain quick access to order individual tasks for ad-hoc projects through our 100% digital experience. Sign in, order your imagery, and have the capture delivered, all online.

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Tasking Dashboard

Access the Data You Need When You Need It

The Tasking Dashboard uses tasking credits, making it an ideal solution for organizations requiring scalability and flexibility for ongoing projects.

This easy-to-use interface is accessible anywhere, and allows you to submit, modify, and cancel satellite imagery requests online. The process is automated, and provides near-real-time updates from order to fulfillment. Assets are delivered to you directly through Planet’s powerful, cloud-based infrastructure.

STEP 1

Name Order

Enter the name of your order

STEP 2

Define the Product

Select whether to schedule a single or reoccurring order

STEP 3

Define Tasking Parameters

Change the default setting to suit your requirements

STEP 4

Insert GeoJSON

Copy and paste the location’s GeoJSON

STEP 5

Review and Confirm

Review order summary and confirm order

To learn more about Tasking, visit Planet University.

How It Can Help

With the Highest Revisit Commercially Available, Planet Tasking Delivers High-Precision Insights and a Global Perspective

Planet Tasking is built for flexibility and frequency. Using the world’s most agile constellation of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites, Planet is empowering organizations with geospatial insights and images multiple times a day.

High Accuracy

Images provide extremely detailed information in high-resolution

More Timely

High intraday revisit enables real-time intelligence to changes as they evolve

Easily Accessible

Cloud-based dashboard makes tasking simple and possible anywhere

Comprehensive Library

Access to Planet’s constantly updated archive of approximately 50 PB of Earth data

With ~15 high-resolution satellites in orbit, Planet Tasking has the highest intraday revisit capability of any commercial provider globally, capturing satellite imagery and insights sub-daily in areas that are traditionally challenging for imaging due to low satellite capacity.

High-frequency satellite imagery provides reliable, real-time information to avoid blind spots, anticipate events, and empower rapid, informed action. Planet data makes global change visible and accessible. Planet Tasking’s automated, cloud-based system ensures that your response is always timely.

How It’s Used

How Organizations Inform Decisions with Planet Tasking

Defense and Intelligence

Reliable, up-to-date satellite imagery from Planet Tasking provides fast and accessible insights into geopolitical and security events as they unfold.

Task collections of 50 centimeter ortho imagery sub-daily
Reduce risk and receive quick insights with tip and cue capabilities
Capture unexpected events across remote locations, borders, and coastlines
Extract insights with near-infrared, stereo, and video capabilities
Validate actions with rapid revisit tasking

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey used Planet satellite imagery to uncover covert nuclear facilities in Iran.

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Civil Government

Protect public lands, measure policy impacts, focus on specific areas of interest, and enable rapid decision making.

Manage and monitor infrastructure projects broadly
Improve protection of natural resources and people
Analyze areas of interest and derive timely insights
Update maps and charts with the most recent data
Monitor and detect changes to land use

Humboldt County, California, uses Planet to proactively identify and monitor cannabis cultivation.

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Forestry and Land Use

Monitor and manage forest assets and operations, track changes in land use and land cover, and localize forest clearing in near-real time with high-cadence, high-resolution imagery.

Optimize your timber harvest operations
Monitor and manage forest health
Track changes to land cover and land use over time
Prevent illegal and unpermitted clearing of forest

Brazil’s Federal Police uses Planet imagery to monitor the Amazon Rainforest for illegal mining and deforestation, drug trafficking, and unauthorized fires.

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Emergency Response

Accessible, frequent, and high-resolution imaging helps anticipate, assess, and mitigate disasters.

Anticipate changes in landscape, identify potential dangers, and stem problems
Understand the scope of disaster at speed with before and after imagery
Inform the most effective and rapid mode of response

Planet worked with the Moore Foundation, the Moraga-Orinda Fire District, and UC Berkeley to build an automated system that informs decision-making for first responders.

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Energy and Infrastructure

Fast, reliable, high-resolution data help monitor infrastructure development and growth across regions.

Monitor important assets and reclamation projects
Manage and preempt risks to your business
Evaluate competitor activity, production methods, and equipment
Mitigate and prevent crisis

Planet partner, SynMax, monitors activity at every major oil and gas practice in the U.S. in near-real-time, to provide transparency to stakeholders across the energy market.

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