Planet makes available select imagery for major disaster events, including major earthquakes, floods, storms, wildfires, and human-made disasters. These are available here in a STAC Catalog under a CC-BY-NC license. See the Planet Disaster Data page for more information.
# Planet Crisis Response — Gironde/Landes Wildfire, France (2026)
STAC/Portolan catalog of pre- and post-fire Planet imagery over the Gironde/Landes Atlantic
wildfire complex near Bordeaux, France — the Le Porge → Arès burn zone on the Arcachon Basin.
Fire ignited ~23 Jul 2026, ~34,000–45,000 ha of Landes pine forest burned. Imagery © Planet
Labs PBC, CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial).
## Layout
- Root: `catalog.json` → children `post-event/catalog.json` and `pre-event/catalog.json`.
- `post-event/` (11 scenes):
- `2026-07-28` — PlanetScope 8-band (PSB.SD), 8 scenes, Gironde coast / Arcachon Basin.
- `2026-07-29` — SkySat (~0.7 m), 3 collects, Le Porge → Arès burn zone.
- `pre-event/` (8 scenes):
- `2026-07-08` — PlanetScope 8-band baseline, 8 scenes, same coast footprint (two scenes
partly cloudy, ~40% and ~64% clear).
- Each Item id is the Planet scene/collect id; Items live at
`<phase>/<date>/items/<scene>/<scene>.json` with COGs beside them.
## Assets per Item (keys)
- `visual` — true-colour RGB ortho COG (8-bit). (all scenes)
- `analytic_sr` — surface-reflectance analytic COG. (PlanetScope 07-08, 07-28)
- `udm2` — usable data mask (per-pixel quality). (PlanetScope 07-08, 07-28)
- `pansharpened` — pansharpened ortho COG. (SkySat 07-29)
## Intended use
- Burn-severity / damage assessment from the ~0.7 m SkySat over the burn zone.
- Wide-area change detection: 07-08 PlanetScope baseline vs 07-28 post-fire PlanetScope.
## Access notes
- All asset hrefs are relative in the item JSON; the item's `self` link is the absolute public
base for resolving them.
- Per-collection and per-folder `items.parquet` (STAC-GeoParquet) indexes are available.
- COGs are cloud-optimized: use GDAL/rasterio, rio-tiler, DuckDB, or HTTP range requests; read
overviews for previews rather than downloading whole files.