Planet and Leaf Partner to
Provide Agricultural Insights For Developers
May 19, 2022
-Planet Labs PBC announced that
their PlanetScope data is now available through
Leaf, an agricultural data infrastructure company.
Through Leaf’s imagery service, developers can
access Planet’s satellite imagery to better inform
their agricultural products.
Leaf’s unified farm data API
helps streamline farm data integrations into a
standardized format. With Leaf, software developers
build useful products for the agricultural industry,
including farm optimization tools, carbon markets
and sustainability tracking, outcome-based
financing, agronomic recommendations, and
traceability applications. Now, with the integration
of Planet’s data, Leaf customers can easily access
daily satellite images of agricultural land.
“Agriculture is going through a
digital revolution, and it’s companies like Leaf
that are helping to propel this transition. I’m
excited to have our daily data available through
Leaf, where developers can pull the latest insights
from Planet’s products into new models and toolkits
for the industry,” said Jim Thomason, Planet’s VP of
Imagery Products.
Planet owns and operates the
largest fleet of Earth observation satellites in
history, with approximately 200 satellites currently
in orbit. The company collects an image of every
land-based location on Earth every single day,
generating an unprecedented dataset. These datasets
are often leveraged by agricultural companies to
analyze crop yields, predict harvest times, and lend
insights into sustainable farming practices.
Leaf customers can now access
the company's PlanetScope data, dating back to 2015,
which provides daily images of each location at
approximately 3 meter resolution. This historical
archive is automatically integrated into Leaf’s
infrastructure, enabling users to gain unique
information regarding agricultural trends over time,
like environmental and seasonal change or
documentation of regenerative practices. New daily
images are then also populated each day, giving near
real-time insights into the health and productivity
of agricultural fields.
“Our goal is to empower
developers to build a food and agricultural system
that benefits our health, environment, and
agricultural economy. We are thrilled to now offer
Planet’s data via our API as their PlanetScope daily
imaging product could allow for better monitoring of
sustainable projects and reveal changing seasonal
trends for farmers and agronomists,” said Leaf CEO
and co-founder Bailey Stockdale.
To access the Planet data,
users can use an existing Planet account or
subscribe to Planet imagery directly with Leaf. Leaf
provides Planet imagery to developers in an
analysis-ready format by processing the data and
cropping and color correcting RGB and NDVI images of
requested agricultural fields. Leaf’s single API is
also compatible with Sentinel-2 and Landsat,
enabling developers to have multiple Earth
observation data streams when building their
products.
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