# Dove-R
*sensor . products*

PlanetScope four-band Dove-R instrument generation with updated Bayer pattern and pass-band filters.

## Specifications
- **product status**: retired
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: planet-labs
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":464,"max":888},"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-R instrument generation with updated Bayer pattern and pass-band filters.","sensor":"{\"instrument_family\":\"passive-optical\",\"measurement_principle\":\"passive\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":464,\"max\":888},\"spectral_band_count\":4,\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":3.7},\"swath_km\":25}"}

## Editorial
Dove-R is the PS2.SD 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 Dove-R runs from March 2019 to 2022-04-22, placing it between the earlier Dove Classic archive and the later SuperDove generation.[^planet-planetscope-docs]

The instrument uses blue, green, red and near-infrared bands with published ranges of 464-517 nm, 547-585 nm, 650-682 nm and 846-888 nm.[^planet-planetscope-docs] The sensor keeps the PS2 telescope lineage but uses an updated Bayer pattern and pass-band filters, which makes it a distinct PlanetScope generation rather than a direct spectral duplicate of Dove Classic.[^planet-planetscope-docs]

The generation-level native GSD is 3.7 m, while USGS characterization describes about 4 m pixel GSD for Dove-R.[^usgs-dove-r] PlanetScope Scene products for Dove-R are approximately 25.0 x 23.0 sq km.[^planet-planetscope-docs] Dove-R has demonstrated vegetation-index mapping with the shared RGB and NIR band set, with cross-generation time series requiring care around spectral response differences.[^planet-planetscope-docs]

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

## 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-r] | System characterization report on Planet's Dove-R | https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20211030D | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-16 | published=2021-08-09

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