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How to get Planet API key?
API keys are available to all registered users with active Planet accounts.
- Find your API Key. Once you’re signed up, log in to your account at planet.com/account to get your API key.
- Conducting an image search.
- Activating & downloading the image.
- Data API Alternatives.
What is Planet API?
Planet’s Data API is a RESTful API interface to Planet’s complete imagery catalog. It enables programmatic support for searching all Planet imagery by metadata.
How do I download Planet imagery?
If you have a contract with Planet, you can download imagery directly from Explorer or via Planet’s APIs. If you do not have a contract with Planet, you will not be able to download imagery. Please contact sales if you would like to download imagery but don’t currently have access.
Where is my google API key?
The new API key is listed on the Credentials page under API keys.
Where is my API ogame?
Every Planet account has an API key and you can find yours by following the instructions at How do I get my API key?. The API key is highlighted at the top of the page. You can also find your API key listed alongside your name and email address on your account page.
How do I download high resolution satellite images?
Top 9 free sources of satellite data [2021 update]
- Google Earth – Free access to high resolution imagery (satellite and aerial)
- Sentinel Hub – Browse Sentinel data.
- USGS Satellite imagery – Landsat, MODIS, and ASTER data.
- NOAA – Get new satellite data every 15 minutes.
How do I download an image from Planet Explorer?
In order to download data from USGS Earth Explorer, here are the four steps you’ll need to follow:
- Set your search criteria.
- Select your data to download.
- Filter out your data.
- Check your results and download.
Is nasa API free to use?
Leave the app running, for now let’s take a look at the NASA API. To use the NASA API, you need a key which will be passed as a parameter on each request, this is free and easy to get — open up a new tab and go to api.nasa.gov.
Do you need an API key to use planet?
As with all Planet APIs, using the Data API requires that you have a Planet API key: if you don’t already have a Planet account, you can sign up for a free trial account website. Once you’re signed up, you can find your API key in your account settings.
How to download images from the planet API?
This API Quickstart Guide will walk you through how to download your first image from the Planet Data API. See guide “Getting Started” guide for instructions on using this guide and acquiring a Planet API key. See Step 1: Searching for Imagery for a guide to searching for images in the Planet API.
What are asset types in the planet data API?
In the Planet Data API, these different item options are called Assets and items usually have multiple asset types. We can see what asset types are availiable for a certain item by adding /assets to the item url.
Can a visual asset be downloaded from the API?
An important thing to know about the API is that it does not pre-generate Assets so they are not always immediately availiable to download. You can see that the visual asset for this item has the status “inactive”, so we need to activate it.