Planetary Variables

Planetary Variables are analysis-ready data feeds that measure important conditions on the surface of the Earth including: Soil Water Content, Land Surface Temperature, Crop Biomass, and Forest Structure and Carbon. These products draw on observations from numerous public and commercial satellite missions to generate datasets that have broad, continuous geographic coverage and high-temporal resolution.

About Planetary Variables

To learn more about Planetary Variables, please review each of their documentation pages:

• Soil Water Content
• Land Surface Temperature
• Crop Biomass
• Forest Carbon Diligence

Purchasing Planetary Variables Data

If you need to purchase Planetary Variables, please contact Planet Sales.

If you already have your Planet API key that has access to Planetary Variables data, you can skip this section and use the TPDI subscriptions or EO-Browser's Commercial Data tab. For the specific type and id values for each Planetary Variable, please refer to their documentation pages linked above.

Subscribing to Planetary Variables Data

To subscribe to Planetary Variables Data, use Planet's Subscription api with the option to deliver data to Sentinel Hub. This is the preferred way of subscribing to Planetary Variables data.

Subscription to Planetary Variables data is for now also possible using TPDI subscriptions endpoint or via EO Browser's "Commercial Data" tab. You will have to specify values for parameters type and id as explained in the Planetary Variables documentation pages.

Minimum individual subscription is 1 hectare. You can subscribe to smaller areas, however, you will be billed for the minimum area.

Note that delivery of the data can take anytime from a few hours up to a week depending on the request.

Examples

Subscribing to and visualizing Planetary Variables is illustrated by this Soil Water Content example.