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SkySat Camera
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Planet SkySat passive optical imaging payload collecting panchromatic, blue, green, red, and near-infrared imagery for high-resolution tasking and archive products.
SkySat Camera is Planet's high-resolution passive optical imaging payload for the SkySat constellation. It collects panchromatic and multispectral imagery, and current SkySat products include tasking, archive imagery, and video or stereo collection modes for a 15-satellite high-resolution constellation. [1]
The optical design uses Cassegrain telescopes with three overlapping 5.5 megapixel CMOS imaging detectors in the focal plane. Multispectral bands are characterized as blue 450-515 nm, green 515-595 nm, red 605-695 nm, and near-infrared 740-900 nm; the product line also includes four-band and panchromatic imagery. [2] [1]
For current product use, orthorectified SkySat imagery is sampled at 50 cm per pixel; the USGS SkySat-12 multispectral characterization is 0.81 m GSD with a 5.9 km swath. Those values describe different product and characterization contexts and should not be conflated. [1] [2]
Pricing not publicly listed by operator
Supply chain position
- Multispectral optical imagingvia Planet SkySat
[usgs-ofr-2021-1030e] Pan plus four MS bands; USGS ECCOE characterisation of Planet SkySat.
None on record.
- [1]Planet Documentation, SkySat imageryoperator datasheet2026-06-16
- [2]System Characterization Report on Planet SkySat, USGSagency doc2026-06-16
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SkySat Camera. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/skysat-camera (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:products:sensor:skysat-camera,
title = {SkySat Camera},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/skysat-camera}
}