Imagery acquisition platform
The satellite, aircraft, or named imaging platform that acquired an image.
Sources that carry it
2 sourcesAuthenticated commercial platform for buyer-selected bounding boxes or GeoJSON AOIs. Its STAC Discovery API searches the DigitalGlobe archive by location, acquisition interval, collection, item id, and metadata; Ordering and Streaming deliver selected imagery; the Basemap API streams Vivid products and source-image metadata. Discovery, ordering, streaming, tiles, browse images, full-resolution downloads, and Vivid access are delivery/services of this one contracted platform, not separate Sources. Raster assets and geometries remain in Source prose. No roof-change or damage result is documented.
Commercial SkySat scene/collect archive available to licensed users through Planet Data API search, Orders API, Subscriptions API, and file download. Buyers can search arbitrary GeoJSON AOIs and acquisition times, select catalog item ids, order full products, and subscribe to future matching captures. SkySat scenes have sub-meter products suitable for building-level visual context. APIs, Explorer, subscriptions, clipping, tasking, and download are access modes for one SkySat product family. No explicit roof-change or damage output is documented.
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