In this repository, you'll find a collection of Jupyter notebooks from the software developers, data scientists, and developer advocates at Planet. These interactive, open-source (APLv2) guides are designed to help youwork with our APIs and tools, explore Planet data, and learn how to extract information from our massive archive of high-cadence satellite imagery. We hope these guides will inspire you to ask interesting questions of Planet data. Need help? Find a bug? Please file an issue and we'll get back to you.
NOTE: After installing Docker, Windows users should install WSL2 Backend when prompted.
If you've never cloned the Planet notebooks repo, run the following:
git clone https://github.com/planetlabs/notebooks.git
cd notebooks
If you have previously cloned the Planet notebooks repo in the past, make sure to update to pull any changes locally that might have happened since you last interacted with the Planet notebooks:
cd notebooks
git pull
Authentication with Planet's API Key can be achieved by using a valid Planet API Key.
You can export your API Key as an environment variable on your system:
export PL_API_KEY="YOUR-API-KEY"
If you wish to have your API Key be persistent (forever stored as PL_API_KEY
), then you may enter this export
command in your ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
file. If you are using our Docker environment, as is defined below, it will already be set.
In Python, we set up an API Key variable, PLANET_API_KEY
, from an environment variable to use with our API requests:
# Import the os module in order to access environment variables
import os
# Set up the API Key from the `PL_API_KEY` environment variable
PLANET_API_KEY = os.getenv('PL_API_KEY')
Now, your Planet API Key is stored in the variable PLANET_API_KEY
and is ready to use in your Python code.
Some Notebooks in this repository use the Sentinel Hub Python SDK. Currently, this SDK uses a different method of authenticating than what is used with the Planet APIs and SDK for Python.
For the Sentinel Hub Python SDK, you must provide a client_id
and a client_secret
which can be obtained from the Dashboard app. You can find full instructions on setting up the client credentials in this SDK from the SDK documentation.
from sentinelhub import SHConfig
import getpass
config = SHConfig()
if not config.sh_client_id or not config.sh_client_secret:
print("No credentials found, please provide the OAuth client ID and secret.")
config.sh_client_id = getpass.getpass("sh_client_id: ")
config.sh_client_secret = getpass.getpass("sh_client_secret: ")
config.save()
print(f"Credentials saved to {SHConfig.get_config_location()}")
else:
print(f"Using credentials stored here: {SHConfig.get_config_location()}")
Planet Notebooks rely on a complex stack of technologies that are not always easy to install and properly configure. To ease this complexity we provide a docker container for running the notebook on docker compatible systems. To install docker on your system please see docker's documentation for your operating system.
The Docker image for these notebooks is hosted in the planetlabs/notebooks repo on DockerHub. To download and prepare the image for use, run:
cd notebooks
docker pull planetlabs/notebooks
docker tag planetlabs/notebooks planet-notebooks
# If you get errors running the above, you might have to add sudo to the beginning:
#sudo docker pull planetlabs/notebooks
#sudo docker tag planetlabs/notebooks planet-notebooks
If you want to re-build the Docker image yourself, this is documented below in the "Appendix: Build the Docker image" section.
To run the container (after building or downloading it), add your Planet API key below and issue the following command from the git repository root directory:
docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 -v $PWD:/home/jovyan/work -e PL_API_KEY='[YOUR-API-KEY]' planet-notebooks
# If you get a permissions error running the above, you should add sudo to the front:
# sudo docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 -v $PWD:/home/jovyan/work -e PL_API_KEY='[YOUR-API-KEY]' planet-notebooks
# Windows users run: winpty docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 -v "/$PWD":/home/joyvan/work -e PL_API_KEY='[YOUR-API-KEY]' planet-notebooks
This does several things:
-
Maps the docker container's
8888
port to your system's8888
port. This makes the container available to your host systems web browser. -
Maps a host system path
$PWD
to the docker container's working directory. This ensures that the notebooks you create, edit, and save are available on your host system under thejupyter-notebooks
sub-directory and are not destroyed when you exit the container. This also allows for running tests in thetests
sub-directory. -
Ensures that the directory in the Docker container named
/home/jovyan/work
that has the notebooks in them is accessible to the Jupyter notebook server. -
Starts an interactive terminal that is accessible through http://localhost:8888.
-
Sets an environment variable with your unique Planet API key for authenticating against the API.
-
Includes the
--rm
option to clean up the notebook after you exit the process.
Once the Docker container is running, the CLI output will display a URL that you will use to access Jupyter notebooks with your browser.
http://localhost:8888/?token=<UNIQUE-TOKEN>
NOTE: This security token will change every time you start your Docker container.
exploring_planet_data: Working with our various image products, how to use the udm mask or deliver imagery to our GEE integration
- How to use the Data and Orders API to create analysis ready data
- Converting Raster Results to Vector Features
- Introduction to Cloud Native Geospatial Tools
- Comparing Planet Scope with Landsat 8
- Deliver data to GEE
- Start working with satellite imagery in Python
- Create labels using Planet imagery
- Pixel-by-pixel comparison of PlanetScope and Landsat Scenes
- Visualize and convert a UDM to a binary mask
- Work with the Usable Data Mask (UDM2)
- Explore the Planet Data API with Python
- Search, activate, and download imagery with the Planet Python Client
- Search & Download Quickstart Guide
- Planet Data API reference
- Create a mosaic from multiple PlanetScope scenes
- Calculate a vegetation index from 4-band satellite imagery
- Convert PlanetScope metadata from radiance to reflectance
- Analytics quickstart:
- Analytics user guide:
- Other analytics notebooks:
Soon we hope to add notebooks from the researchers, technologists, geographers, and entrepreneurs who are already using Planet data to ask interesting and innovative questions about our changing Earth. If you're working with our imagery and have a notebook (or just an idea for a notebook) that you'd like to share, please file an issue and let us know.
This documents how to build the docker image yourself, rather than using the recommended step of downloading pre-built Docker images. This is useful if you are a developer adding dependencies or a new Jupyter notebook to this repo, for example.
First you must build the docker image. Note, this only has to be done the first time you use it. After checking out the repository, you run:
cd planet-notebook-docker
docker build --rm -t planet-notebooks .
cd ..
This will build and install the Docker image on your system, making it available to run. This may take some time (from 10 minutes to an hour) depending on your network connection and how long Anaconda takes to configure its environment.