# Dove Classic
*sensor . products*

PlanetScope four-band Dove instrument generation used for early Planet Dove imagery.

## Specifications
- **product status**: retired
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: planet-labs
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":455,"max":860},"spectral_band_count":4,"gsd_m":{"native":3.7},"swath_km":25}
- **entity type**: sensor
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-16
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: claimed
- **provider**: planet-labs
- **attributes**: {"kind":"sensor","product_status":"retired","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"planet-labs","description":"PlanetScope four-band Dove instrument generation used for early Planet Dove imagery.","sensor":"{\"instrument_family\":\"passive-optical\",\"measurement_principle\":\"passive\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":455,\"max\":860},\"spectral_band_count\":4,\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":3.7},\"swath_km\":25}"}

## Editorial
Dove Classic is the PS2 PlanetScope instrument generation, a retired four-band passive optical multispectral frame imager operated by Planet Labs PBC.[^planet-planetscope-docs] Planet's availability window for this generation runs from July 2014 to 2022-04-29, making it a historical PlanetScope source for time series that predate later Dove-R and SuperDove coverage.[^planet-planetscope-docs]

The instrument provides blue, green, red and near-infrared bands, with published band ranges of 455-515 nm, 500-590 nm, 590-670 nm and 780-860 nm.[^planet-planetscope-docs] For resolution planning, the generation-level native GSD is 3.7 m, while USGS characterization describes about 4 m pixel GSD for the Dove Classic system.[^usgs-dove-classic]

Scene products are approximately 25.0 x 11.5 sq km, so the 25 km catalogue dimension should be read as the along-scene dimension rather than a square 25 km swath.[^planet-planetscope-docs] Dove Classic has demonstrated vegetation-index mapping with the four shared RGB and NIR bands, but cross-generation analysis against Dove-R or SuperDove data needs attention to the different spectral response functions.[^planet-planetscope-docs]

## Compositional position
- planet-dove (missions) --[mission_payloads]--> Dove Classic

## Sources
- [planet-planetscope-docs] | PlanetScope instrument documentation, Planet | https://docs.planet.com/data/imagery/planetscope/ | tier=operator-datasheet | accessed=2026-06-16 | published=2026-04-24
- [usgs-dove-classic] | System characterization report on Planet's Dove Classic | https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20211030C | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-16 | published=2021-07-26

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