Planet provides access to a daily snapshot of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. If you would like access, please fill out this form. First check to see if you are part of a lab on campus that has its own Planet group, which can be found listed below. If you would like to create a sub-organization for your lab, there is an option on the form. You will be asked to re-register each spring.
If you already have an existing Planet Labs account associated with your @ucsb.edu email, please email us at dreamlab@library.ucsb.edu first, so we can have Planet grandfather your account into our organization.
More information about the imagery is below the video.
West Campus 2022-2023
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Sub-Organizations
Sub-Organizations exist so that lab groups can work together. Current Sub-Organizations are:
*updated as of 6/12/23
- Benioff Ocean Science
- CCBER
- Climate Hazards
- EDGE Lab
- EmLab
- ESCAD
- GeoMorph
- Jasechko Lab
- Lambert Lab
- McFadden Lab
- NCEAS
- SAND Lab
- SeaSketch
- SONGS MMP
- Systemics
- Tague Lab
- TectGeo
- Valentine
- VIPER Lab
- VOLCSEIS
- Waves
Planet Labs users are expected to provide the Library with notice when planning grant-funded projects using Planet imagery and when they publish their work.
Planet Labs has extensive documentation
Planet provides:
- PlanetSat: ~ 3m 4 band imagery of the entire planet each day
- SkySat: a growing archive of .5 m multi-channel imagery
- Online analysis tools
- A simple set of storymap tools (right-click on image below for playback controls)
- Access to imagery via an API
Thanks to the Office of Research for providing 3 years of funding for Planet.