planet-download 0.2

A package for acquiring and processing Planet images

Planet Image Download Using Planet API

This Github repository helps to dowload the planet scope image using the api provided by planet scope.

How to use this package

Clone this repository and use it like example below: We need three things to use the package:

1. Spatial extent or bounding box
2. Dates (dates is in list, we provide base year and target year )
3. Planet Api Key

from planet_image_acquisition.planet_image_acquisition import get_planet_image
spatial_extent = (120.527,16.342,120.652,16.464) # xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax
dates = [2018,2019] # Should be provided in list format
api = '' # Provide the planet api key for your account

base,target=get_planet_image(spatial_extent,dates,api)

Temporal Resolution for Planet Scope Image

We can download planet scope image from the year 2018. For the year 2018 and 2019, we can only download 6 months composite. For 2020 we can download planet image of 6 monthe composite (2019-12_2020-05), 2 months composite (2020-06_2020-08),and all other from this point is a one month composite

Years and Image composite for the respective year is given as below. One should provide dates like below inorder to download planet image. I this package we only provide the year other logic is handled in date_logic python file.

Year	Image Composite
2018	2017-12_2018-05, 2018-06_2018-11
2019	2018-12_2019-05, 2019-06_2019-11
2020	2019-12_2020-05, 2020-06_2020-08, 2020-09, 2020-10, 2020-11, 2020-12
2021	2021-01, 2021-02, 2021-03, .... , 2021-12
2022	2022-01, 2022-02, 2022-03, .... , 2022-12
2023	2023-01, 2023-02, 2023-03, .... , 2023-12
2024	2024-01, 2024-02, 2024-03, .... , 2024-12