Nothing changes for the users of the PSScene4Band item type. However, PSScene4Band will be deprecated by January 2023. After that you will not be able to create new orders or subscriptions for PSScene4Band and existing subscriptions will stop. However, the alredy imported BYOC collections will continue to work normally.
Existing collections containing PSScene4Band data are not compatible with the PSScene data. However, you can re-order the same data again as PSScene at no additional cost to you.
as we have informed you in March, Planet is deprecating support for PSScene4Band.
As of November 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to create new Orders and Subscriptions using the PSScene4Band item and asset types. After this date, you will only be able to create Orders and Subscriptions using PSScene.
What you need to do to prepare:
Update your Orders and Subscriptions with the PSScene item type before November 1.
Delete or cancel Subscriptions you do not want migrated.
What Planet will take care of for you:
Starting on Tuesday, November 15, if no action is taken on your part, Planet will begin to automatically migrate most subscriptions using PSScene4Band to PSScene. We recommend removing any subscriptions with legacy PSScene4Band asset types, as Planet will no longer support them.
The closest equivalent is ‘analytic_udm2’, which has the same optical bands plus additional UDM2 “usable data mask” bands, which you can ignore if you do not need them. Note that the band names differ between PSScene and PSScene4Band, as documented here.
Yes, you can use both the 4-band and 8-band bundles under the same plan. Note, however, that significantly more data is available as 4-band imagery than as 8-band.
8-band data is only available from the new “SuperDove” satellites, while 4-band data is available from all PlanetScope satellites. Please find more detailed info in Planet’s specifications.
Config set up at code base :
harmonizeTo: ‘PSB.SD’,
itemType: ‘PSScene’,
productBundle: ‘analytic_8b_udm2’,
error:
{
"error": {
"status": 400,
"reason": "Bad Request",
"message": "Harmonization to PSBSD not supported for the requested itemType and productBundle",
"code": "COMMON_BAD_PAYLOAD"
}
Harmonization is not available for the PSScene top of the atmosphere reflectance products (analytic_udm2 and analytic_8b_udm2), thus “harmonizeTo” must be “NONE”.
Harmonization to “Sentinel-2” is available for the surface reflection poducts (analytic_sr_udm2 and analytic_8b_sr_udm2).
as explained two weeks ago, running subscriptions for the deprecated PlanetScope item type PSScene4Band will be automatically migrated to PSScene by Planet. However, the auto-migrated subscriptions cannot be ingested into existing BYOC collections. We have therefore canceled any such subscriptions. If you wish to continue receiving new data and haven’t yet migrated to PSScene as described above, please do so now.
Thanks for all the information. We upgraded the configuration last year as specified and can download and process 4-band imagery but we would like to know which sensor frequency(PS2 or PS2.SD) is used in our code. Please help us with the information based on the below configuration from our API.
Collection Id: 092aa3aa-36be-4b9a-b21c-XXXXXXXX
Order part config: harmonizeTo: NONE, itemType: PSSCENE, productBundle: ANALYTIC_UDM2.
Unfortunately this attribute is not available inside the evalscript. The only place where you can see this is in the metadata of individual deliveries: in the Dashboard, select the subscription/order, select a Delivery in the below list:
