Crop Biomass
Crop Biomass provides cloud-free, analysis-ready data every day. By combining optical (Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope) with radar data (Sentinel-1), this product offers users the opportunity to monitor agricultural fields, even during periods with a persistent cloud cover.
Crop Biomass users get a daily raster independently of weather conditions with the data from the most updated direct observation from the day before. Each pixel has a relative measure of biomass with values that range from 0 to 1. A detailed description of Crop Biomass' methodology can be found in Burger et al. (2024).
Extensive validation has been conducted on different crops. Examples of this validation can be found for grain crops in Guillevic et al. (2024) and for alfalfa in Lucero et al. (2024).
Use Cases
Agriculture
- Monitor crop growth and development: You can track the growth and development of crops throughout the growing season, helping them to identify any issues early on and take appropriate action.
- Detect and respond to stressors: Frequent updates on Crop Biomass data can help you detect stressors such as pests, diseases, or nutrient deficiencies. Timely access to this information allows you to respond more quickly and effectively, minimizing potential negative impacts on crop health and yield.
- Optimize inputs and interventions: By tracking biomass dynamics, you can make better-informed decisions about the timing and application of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, as well as plan targeted interventions to address issues in specific areas of the field.
- Improve harvest planning and efficiency: Access to up-to-date Crop Biomass data can help you plan harvests more effectively, by identifying areas of the field with higher biomass that may require adjusted harvest strategies or equipment settings.
- Estimate crop yield: Peer-reviewed scientific article in Field Crops Research: Planet’s Biomass Proxy for monitoring aboveground agricultural biomass and estimating crop yield Guillevic et al., 2024
Published Scientific Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- The Biomass Proxy: Unlocking Global Agricultural Monitoring through Fusion of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Burger et al., 2024
- Planet’s Biomass Proxy for monitoring aboveground agricultural biomass and estimating crop yield Guillevic et al., 2024
Blog Posts
- Planet's Crop Biomass for Agriculture Monitoring and Yield Forecasting
- Next Generation Agriculture Monitoring at Scale with Planet's Crop Biomass
API Information
| API | Available | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Data API | ❌ | |
| Orders API | ❌ | |
| Subscriptions API | ✅ |
Subscriptions Access
Data is delivered within 12 hours after data acquisition which is at 00:00 local solar time.
For more information on the Subscriptions API and code samples, see the API documentation.
Documentation and Tutorials
Get Started with Planet subscriptions API
Learn how to work with Planet subscriptions API through the Quickstart guide.
Planet University
Explore video tutorials about the Crop Biomass
Subscriptions Jupyter Notebooks
Check out the Jupyter notebooks tutorial on GitHub for using the Subscriptions API.
Custom scripts for Planet Insight Platform
Explore scripts to visualize Crop Biomass in EO Browser