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Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering

ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.

Sample data products from ESA’s Third Party Missions

Samples of data products from a range of Third Party Missions are now available to download, offering a preview of what these missions provide.

International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions

ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.

New Data Voucher for Planetscope on-demand

ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme offers researchers, scientists and companies from around the world access to Planet’s high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use.

VHR Data Quality in the limelight

In recent years, the satellite landscape has steadily expanded with a variety of very high resolution (VHR) commercial satellites, also emerging from new space providers. A result of this growth is an increased need to address data quality assurance.

About PlanetScope

The PlanetScope satellite constellation consists of multiple launches of groups of individual cubesats (Doves and SuperDoves).

*Mission Parameters*
Orbit Altitude	475 km - 525 km
Orbit Type	Sun-synchronous
Orbit Inclination	98°
Repeat Cycle	Daily
Equator Crossing Time	9:30 - 11:30 am (local solar time)

PlanetScope Objectives

The PlanetScope constellation of 430+ Dove and SuperDove satellites is able to image nearly all Earth's land every day.

PlanetScope Instruments

PlanetScope Camera

The PlanetScope camera on each Dove cubesat operates currently in eight bands - red edge, red, green, green I, yellow, blue, coastal blue and near infra-red.

Sensor Type	Three-band frame Imager or four-band frame Imager with a split-frame NIR filter (Dove-C) Four-band frame imager with butcher-block filter providing blue, green, red, and NIR stripes (Dove-R) Eight-band frame imager with butcher-block filter providing blue, green, red, red-edge, and NIR stripes (SuperDove)
Spectral Bands	Coastal Blue: 431 - 452 nm Blue: 465 – 515 nm Green I: 513 - 549 nm Green: 547 – 583 nm Yellow: 600 - 620 nm Red: 650 – 680 nm RedEdge: 697 – 713 nm NIR: 845 – 885 nm
Ground Sample Distance (nadir)	Dove-C: 3.0 m-4.1 m Dove-R: 3.0 m-4.1 m SuperDove: 3.7 m-
Frame Size	24 km x 8 km (approximate) for Dove-C 24 km x 16 km (approximate) for Dove-R 32.5 km x 19.6 km (approximate) for SuperDove
Maximum Image Strip per orbit	20,000 km²
Revisit Time	Daily at nadir
Image Capture Capacity	200 million km²/day

PlanetScope Data

DATA COLLECTIONS

ESA is offering, for scientific research and application development, access to data from the full archive of the PlanetScope missions upon submission and acceptance of a project proposal. These collections are available as part of the Planet imagery offer.

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 made available to each project.

The following data collections are available:

Product Information

Name	Description	Product Level
PlanetScope Basic Scene Product	Scaled Top of Atmosphere Radiance (at sensor) and sensor corrected product. The Basic Scene product is designed for users with advanced image processing and geometric correction capabilities. This product has scene based framing and is not projected to a cartographic projection. Radiometric and sensor corrections applied to the data.	Level 1B
PlanetScope Ortho Scene Product	Orthorectified, scaled Top of Atmosphere Radiance (at sensor) or Surface Reflectance image product suitable for analytic and visual applications. This product has scene based framing and is projected to a cartographic projection.	Level 3A
PlanetScope Ortho Tile Product	Radiometric and sensor corrections applied to the data. Imagery is orthorectified and projected to a UTM projection.	Level 3B

PlanetScope INSTRUMENTS

PlanetScope DATA