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Planet Satellite Imagery for Agriculture

See field changes sooner with Planet imagery

Near-daily, high-resolution satellite imagery in FarmQA gives you a closer look at field variability, so you can spot changes sooner, prioritize scouting, and make more informed in-season decisions.

3.5m

PlanetScope resolution

See more field-level detail.

Near-daily

Frequency

Get more opportunities to catch change.

5 yrs

Of history

Put current conditions in context.

Global

Coverage

Broad coverage across agricultural regions worldwide.

Spatial resolution

The Planet difference starts with a closer look

Spatial resolution determines how much detail you can see within a field. PlanetScope imagery provides 3.5m resolution, giving you a more detailed view of crop variability than broader-resolution satellite imagery. That added detail can help reveal smaller areas of variability, making it easier to identify where conditions differ within a field and where a closer look may be warranted.

Temporal resolution

Near-daily imagery helps you keep up with the field

Spatial resolution tells you how closely you can see. Temporal resolution tells you how often you get a fresh look. PlanetScope’s near-daily revisit gives you more opportunities throughout the growing season to see changes as they develop. When crop conditions can change quickly, more frequent imagery can help you identify an area of concern while there’s still time to investigate it. Cloud cover and other conditions can affect the number of usable images, but Planet’s high revisit frequency gives you more opportunities to capture a clear view when timing matters.

Decisions

Turn better visibility into better agronomy decisions

Planet isn’t just about getting more satellite images. The combination of higher spatial resolution and near-daily updates gives you another source of field intelligence for deciding where to look, what to investigate, and where management may need to differ.

Detect subtle field variability

See smaller differences within a field that may be harder to distinguish with broader-resolution imagery. Use those patterns as a starting point for investigating crop development, stress, or other sources of variability.

Prioritize scouting

Use recent imagery to identify areas that warrant a closer look and direct scouts to the most important parts of a field instead of treating every acre the same.

Support management zone creation

Use high-resolution imagery to help identify field-level variability and develop management zones based on patterns you can see across the field.

Inform variable-rate decisions

Bring imagery into your precision agronomy workflow to support management zones and variable-rate prescription development.

Indices

Turn Planet imagery into agronomy-ready insights

QA Advisor automatically processes Planet imagery into agronomy-ready views and vegetation indices, so you can look beyond a visual satellite image and evaluate field variability in different ways. Available views and indices include:

NDVINDREMSAVISAVIVisualRed Edge

Spatial resolution matters. With higher resolution, in-field grown anomalies become more visible.

From satellite pass to field-level action

Planet imagery comes directly into the same QA Advisor application you use to manage your agronomy work. Imagery is automatically clipped to your field boundaries and processed into field-level layers, eliminating the need to download, process, and move imagery between separate tools.

In QA Advisor you can:

View Planet imagery and vegetation indices by field

Compare imagery across dates

Sync imagery layers for offline mobile use

Move directly from imagery into scouting, analysis, management zones, and variable-rate workflows

The result is more than imagery from above. It’s field intelligence that connects directly to the work happening on the ground.

History

Look back to better understand what you're seeing today

A single image tells you what’s happening at one point in time. Historical imagery can help you determine whether what you’re seeing is new or part of a recurring field pattern. With up to five years of historical imagery available, you can compare seasons, evaluate crop development over time, and identify patterns that may help explain current field conditions. Combine imagery with FarmQA Analytics to add even more context, including long-term NDVI trend tracking at the field level.

Fit

Is Planet the right fit?

Planet is well suited for agronomy programs where field-level detail and frequent in-season visibility matter, including intensive scouting, high-value crops, precision agronomy, and variable-rate programs.

Don’t need this level of imagery frequency or resolution across every acre? Explore Sentinel imagery for reliable, broad-scale monitoring and seasonal trend visibility.

Pricing

Priced for real operations

$0.85/acre/year

PlanetScope Imagery. Includes near-daily PlanetScope imagery, QA Advisor processing and field-level delivery, and up to five years of historical backfill.

Need an even closer look? Get a single 0.5m high-resolution image covering up to 6,200 acres for $400. Additional acreage can be added in 250-acre blocks for $15 per block.

Support

QA Advisor offers one-on-one support for all customers.

See what Planet can show you

See how near-daily, high-resolution Planet imagery in FarmQA can help you spot field changes sooner, prioritize scouting, and make more informed in-season decisions.