The Hyperspectral Constellations

Reach New Scales
of Sight

With plans to launch in 2023, Planet’s Hyperspectral Offering is designed to support a fundamental shift in how businesses and governments understand human activities and their economic and environmental impacts.

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Carbon Mapper
and Beyond

The genesis of the Carbon Mapper initiative came from a need to use high quality hyperspectral data to locate point source methane super emitters at the facility scale.

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Rapid Revisit and Broad Coverage

Frequent revisits and large coverage areas enable more frequent monitoring for pattern of life development.

Broad Range and Narrow Sampling

Spectral Range target at 400-2500nm with 5nm sampling allowing for numerous Hyperspectral use case possibilities

Unprecedented Sensitivity

3-6x more sensitive than comparable space-borne systems across the system’s entire spectral band.

More than Hyperspectral

Leverage Planet’s diverse offerings across spectral, temporal, and spatial to support Tip and Cue or other mission needs.

HOW IT CAN HELP

See the Unseen

Hyperspectral data may be able to help by identifying the spectral “signatures” of chemicals, materials, and processes across the globe, revealing otherwise hidden trends.

Comprehensive

Could provide coverage areas that airplanes, drones and sensors cannot capture at scale and regular revisit.

Extensive

Broad spectral range and narrow spectral sampling could support a broad number of use cases.

Precise

A hyperspectral payload with an industry-leading sensitivity to uncover the previously unseen.

HOW IT’S USED

Hyperspectral Data for Every Industry

Hyper spectral remote sensing is poised to become a cross-industry technology. Its rich data output makes it highly compatible with the digital transformation wave.

  • PlanetScope

    Always-on Monitoring

  • ~200

    Satellites

  • 3.7 m (3.0 NIIRS)

    GSD

  • 8

    Spectral Bands

  • Not required

    Tasking

  • SkySat

    High-Resolution Tasking

  • 21

    Satellites

  • 0.5 m (4.0-5.0 NIIRS)

    GSD

  • RGB, Pan and NIR

    Spectral Bands

  • Sub-daily

    Tasking

  • Pelican

    Very High Resolution

  • ~32

    Satellites

  • 0.3 m (>5.5 NIIRs at-nadir)

    GSD

  • 7

    Spectral Bands

  • Up to 12 revisits/day

    Tasking

  • Hyperspectral

    Broad Spectral Range

  • 2

    Satellites

  • 30 m

    GSD

  • 400-2500nm(5nm spacing)

    Spectral Bands

  • Tasking Required

    Tasking

Hyperspectral data with unparalleled collection capacity and sensitivity

Each Tanager satellite is being designed to make one orbit approximately every 90 minutes.