Project Proposal (Restrained)

1. Go to the ESA User Services Portal
2. Register or log in to EO Sign In - Users are recommended to provide their institutional email address when registering a new account
3. After logging in, complete and submit the form with your proposed use of the data
4. The proposal will be evaluated by ESA, which normally takes between 4 and 6 weeks
5. Upon successful evaluation, you will receive a confirmation email, which describes the amount of data to be provided, and details of how to order the data.

The collection is open for research and application development projects, exclusively for non-commercial and non-operational activities and for civil Earth observation research applications only. Access to the data requires submission of a Project Proposal, which is subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.

ESA will support as many high-quality and innovative projects as possible within the quota limit available, therefore only a limited amount of products can be allowed to each project.

Learn more about the quota limit and see a comparison with other missions in our FAQ: How much data may I request in a Project Proposal?

The SkySat collection has worldwide coverage: The Planet Explorer Catalogue can be accessed (Planet registration requested) to discover and check the data readiness.

Availability and restrictions to the use of the data are described in the Terms of Applicability document.

If you need help with the proposal form, consult this guide on how to access data requiring a project proposal.

For further information about the EO Sign In Service you can visit TellUs.

Should you need support to prepare your proposal or access the data, please contact EOHelp.

The SkySat Level 1 Basic Scene, Level 3B Ortho Scene and Level 3B Consolidated full archive and new tasking products are available as part of the Planet imagery offer.

The SkySat Basic Scene product is uncalibrated and in a raw digital number format, not corrected for any geometric distortions inherent to the imaging process. Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPCs) are provided to enable orthorectification by the user.

• Basic Panchromatic Scene product – unorthorectified, radiometrically corrected, panchromatic (PAN) imagery.
• Basic Panchromatic DN Scene product – unorthorectified, panchromatic (PAN) imagery.
• Basic L1A Panchromatic DN Scene product – unorthorectified, pre-super resolution, panchromatic (PAN) imagery.
• Basic Analytic Scene product – unorthorectified, radiometrically corrected, 4-band multispectral (BGR-NIR) imagery.
• Basic Analytic DN Scene product – unorthorectified, 4-band multispectral (BGR-NIR) imagery.
   

The SkySat Ortho Scene product is sensor- and geometrically-corrected (using DEMs with a post spacing of 30 – 90 m) and is projected to a cartographic map projection; the accuracy of the product varies from region-to-region based on available GCPs.

• Ortho Panchromatic Scene product – orthorectified, radiometrically corrected, panchromatic (PAN) imagery.
• Ortho Panchromatic DN Scene product – orthorectified, panchromatic (PAN), uncalibrated digital number imagery.
• Ortho Analytic Scene product – orthorectified, 4-band multispectral (BGR-NIR) imagery. Radiometric corrections are applied to correct for any sensor artifacts and transformation to top-of-atmosphere radiance.
• Ortho Analytic DN Scene product – orthorectified, 4-band multispectral (BGR-NIR), uncalibrated digital number imagery. Radiometric corrections are applied to correct for any sensor artifacts.
• Ortho Pansharpened Multispectral Scene product – orthorectified, pansharpened, 4-band (BGR-NIR) imagery.
• Ortho Visual Scene product – orthorectified, pansharpened, colour-corrected (using a colour curve) 3-band (RGB) imagery.

The SkySat Ortho Collect product is created by composing SkySat Ortho Scene products along an imaging strip into segments typically unifying ~60 individual SkySat Ortho Scenes, resulting in an image with a footprint of approximately 20 km x 5.9 km. The products may contain artifacts resulting from the composing process, particular offsets in areas of stitched source scenes.

As per ESA policy, very high-resolution imagery of conflict areas cannot be provided.