# Planet Land Surface Temperature
*data products*

## Specifications
- **level**: L4
- **distributor**: planet-labs
- **gsd m**: {"native":100,"resampled":20}
- **file format**: API subscription
- **access endpoint**: https://docs.planet.com/data/planetary-variables/land-surface-temperature/
- **access model**: commercial
- **licence**: Commercial subscription
- **cost model summary**: Commercial subscription through Planet Subscriptions API; 20 m product marked beta by Planet.
- **primary data portal url**: https://docs.planet.com/data/planetary-variables/land-surface-temperature/
- **use cases**: ["Monitoring temperature changes in cities","Heatwave monitoring","Agricultural field temperature monitoring"]
- **practical limitations**: ["Planet states the 20 m beta LST product is intended for single agricultural fields and warns that urban or water AOIs may not accurately reflect conditions","Use cautiously for building-thermal work; 100 m and 1000 m products are more general thermal context layers"]
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **entity type**: data_product
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-14
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: planet-labs
- **attributes**: {"level":"L4","distributor":"planet-labs","gsd_m":"{\"native\":100,\"resampled\":20}","file_format":"API subscription","access_endpoint":"https://docs.planet.com/data/planetary-variables/land-surface-temperature/","access_model":"commercial","licence":"Commercial subscription","cost_model_summary":"Commercial subscription through Planet Subscriptions API; 20 m product marked beta by Planet.","primary_data_portal_url":"https://docs.planet.com/data/planetary-variables/land-surface-temperature/","use_cases":"[\"Monitoring temperature changes in cities\",\"Heatwave monitoring\",\"Agricultural field temperature monitoring\"]","practical_limitations":"[\"Planet states the 20 m beta LST product is intended for single agricultural fields and warns that urban or water AOIs may not accurately reflect conditions\",\"Use cautiously for building-thermal work; 100 m and 1000 m products are more general thermal context layers\"]","deployment_context":"orbital"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
Planet Land Surface Temperature is a commercial Level 4 Planetary Variables product delivered through Planet's Subscriptions API [^planet-lst-docs]. The product family includes 20 m beta, 100 m, and 1000 m LST variants, with the catalogue row recording a 100 m native product and a 20 m resampled beta option [^planet-lst-docs]. Access is subscription-based under commercial licence terms, so procurement should account for API entitlement, area coverage, and variant availability in the subscription scope [^planet-lst-docs].

The product is positioned for monitoring temperature changes in cities, heatwave monitoring, and agricultural field temperature monitoring [^planet-lst-docs]. For building-thermal use, treat the 20 m beta layer cautiously: it is intended for single agricultural fields, and urban or water areas may not accurately reflect conditions [^planet-lst-docs]. The 100 m and 1000 m variants should be treated as broader thermal context layers rather than individual-building diagnostics [^planet-lst-docs].

## Compositional position
- building-thermal (topics) --[topic_capabilities]--> Planet Land Surface Temperature

## Sources
- [planet-lst-docs] | Planet Land Surface Temperature product documentation | https://docs.planet.com/data/planetary-variables/land-surface-temperature/ | tier=operator-engineering | accessed=2026-06-14

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