Planet Labs

• PlanetScope (Dove constellation)

  PlanetScope is Planet's flagship dataset, produced by its constellation of Dove cubesats that together image Earth's entire landmass every day at roughly 3-meter resolution. The continuous daily feed lets customers in agriculture, government, mapping, forestry, and finance monitor change over time rather than buying one-off images. Planet pioneered using large flocks of small, low-cost satellites for commercial imaging, and PlanetScope remains the backbone of its subscription analytics business, feeding both raw imagery and derived data products.

• SkySat

  SkySat is Planet's high-resolution, taskable satellite constellation, delivering roughly 50-centimeter imagery and video that customers can task on demand to capture a specific location multiple times per day. Where PlanetScope provides broad daily coverage, SkySat is used when fine detail and rapid revisit of a particular site matter, such as monitoring construction, infrastructure, ports, or defense activity. The constellation complements Planet's wide-area Dove fleet, giving customers both a daily global basemap and zoom-in tasking capability within one platform.

• Tanager

  Tanager is Planet's hyperspectral satellite line, beginning with Tanager-1, launched in August 2024 using an imaging spectrometer developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Built for the philanthropy-backed Carbon Mapper coalition, Tanager measures hundreds of spectral bands to pinpoint methane and carbon-dioxide super-emitters from individual facilities worldwide, supporting emissions reduction. The hyperspectral data also has applications in mineralogy, agriculture, and environmental monitoring, extending Planet beyond visible imaging into chemical-composition sensing from orbit.

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