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How ESA's Third Party Missions support European commercialisation
ESA's Third Party Missions programme consists of Earth observation satellites that are owned by commercial and public organisations around the world.
SkySat Sample Data
Download free SkySat sample datasets to preview products available for this mission.
Monitoring the health of wheat crops from space
Very high resolution space data can be used to improve the detection of a plant disease that impacts a major global cereal crop.
Commercial space data help to regreen grasslands in Africa
Commercial satellite imagery made available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme is guiding an ambitious community-focused initiative to regrow natural grasslands in Sub-Saharan Africa.
SkySat ESA archive
The SkySat ESA archive collection consists of SkySat products requested by ESA supported projects over their areas of interest around the world and that ESA collected over the years. The dataset regularly grows as ESA collects new products. Two different product types are offered, Ground Sampling Distance at nadir up to 65 cm for panchromatic and up to 0.8m for multi-spectral. EO-SIP Product Type Product Description Content SSC_DEF_SC Basic and Ortho scene Level 1B 4-bands Analytic /DN Basic scene Level 1B 4-bands Panchromatic /DN Basic scene Level 1A 1-band Panchromatic DN Pre Sup resolution Basic scene Level 3B 3-bands Visual Ortho Scene Level 3B 4-bands Pansharpened Multispectral Ortho Scene Level 3B 4-bands Analytic/DN/SR Ortho Scene Level 3B 1-band Panchromatic /DN Ortho Scene SSC_DEF_CO Ortho Collect Visual 3-band Pansharpened Image Multispectral 4-band Pansharpened Image Multispectral 4-band Analytic/DN/SR Image (B, G, R, N) 1-band Panchromatic Image The Basic Scene product is uncalibrated, not radiometrically corrected for atmosphere or for any geometric distortions inherent in the imaging process: Analytic - unorthorectified, radiometrically corrected, multispectral BGRN Analytic DN - unorthorectified, multispectral BGRN Panchromatic - unorthorectified, radiometrically corrected, panchromatic (PAN) Panchromatic DN - unorthorectified, panchromatic (PAN) L1A Panchromatic DN - unorthorectified, pre-super resolution, panchromatic (PAN) The Ortho Scene product is sensor and geometrically corrected, and is projected to a cartographic map projection: Visual - orthorectified, pansharpened, and colour-corrected (using a colour curve) 3-band RGB Imagery Pansharpened Multispectral - orthorectified, pansharpened 4-band BGRN Imagery Analytic SR - orthorectified, multispectral BGRN. Atmospherically corrected Surface Reflectance product. Analytic - orthorectified, multispectral BGRN. Radiometric corrections applied to correct for any sensor artifacts and transformation to top-of-atmosphere radiance. Analytic DN - orthorectified, multispectral BGRN, uncalibrated digital number imagery product Radiometric corrections applied to correct for any sensor artifacts Panchromatic - orthorectified, radiometrically correct, panchromatic (PAN) Panchromatic DN - orthorectified, panchromatic (PAN), uncalibrated digital number imagery product The Ortho Collect product is created by composing SkySat Ortho Scenes along an imaging strip. The product may contain artifacts resulting from the composing process, particular offsets in areas of stitched source scenes. Spatial coverage: Check the spatial coverage of the collection on a map available on the Third Party Missions Dissemination Service. As per ESA policy, very high-resolution imagery of conflict areas cannot be provided.
PlanetScope and Skysat data available through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme
Through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme, researchers, scientists and companies from around the world can apply to access Planet’s high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use.
Predicting crop yield using Planet data
The world’s population continues to grow, while the climate crisis is raising Earth’s temperatures and increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events – all of which affect food security.
Improved resolution for SkySat data and extension of Planet data availability
The SkySat satellites orbits has been lowered from 500km to 450km altitude and various processing improvements have been implemented by Planet.
SkySat Full Archive and New Tasking
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. Basic Scene Product Components and Format Product Components and Format Image File (GeoTIFF format) Metadata File (JSON format) Rational Polynomial Coefficients (Text File) UDM File (GeoTIFF format) Image Configuration 1-band Panchromatic/Panchromatic DN Image (PAN) 4-band Analytic/Analytic DN Image (Blue, Green, Red, NIR) Ground Sampling Distance (nadir) SkySat-1 & -2: 0.86 m (PAN), 1.0 m (MS) SkySat-3 to -15: 0.65 m (PAN), 0.8 m (MS). 0.72 m (PAN) and 1.0 m (MS) for data acquired prior to 30/06/2020 SkySat-16 to -21: 0.57 m (PAN), 0.75 m (MS) Accuracy <50 m RMSE 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. Ortho Scene Product Components and Format Product Components and Format Image File (GeoTIFF format) Metadata File (JSON format) Rational Polynomial Coefficients (Text File) UDM File (GeoTIFF format) Image Configuration 1-band Panchromatic/Panchromatic DN Image (PAN) 4-band Analytic/Analytic DN Image (Blue, Green, Red, NIR) 4-band Pansharpened Multispectral Image (Blue, Green, Red, NIR) 3-band Pansharpened (Visual) Image (Red, Green, Blue) Orthorectified Pixel Size 50 cm Projection UTM WGS84 Geolocation Accuracy <10 m RMSE 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.
SkySat
SkySat is a constellation of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites from the commercial company Planet Labs.