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 — Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica (2025) STAC/Portolan catalog of post-event Planet SkySat imagery over Hurricane Melissa's landfall zone in southwestern Jamaica (Category 5 landfall 28 Oct 2025; imagery acquired 3–4 Nov 2025). Imagery © Planet Labs PBC, CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial). ## Layout - Root: `catalog.json` → child `post-event/catalog.json`. - `post-event/` holds one Collection per affected location: `savanna-la-mar` (14 scenes, Westmoreland, acquired 2025-11-03), `black-river` (7 scenes, St. Elizabeth, 2025-11-04). - Each Item id is the Planet SkySat scene id; Items live at `post-event/<location>/items/<scene>/<scene>.json` with COGs beside them. ## Assets per Item (keys) - `visual` — true-colour RGB ortho COG (8-bit). - `pansharpened` — pansharpened BGRN ortho COG. - `udm2` — usable data mask (per-pixel quality); `udm` — unusable data mask. ## Access notes - All asset hrefs are relative in the item JSON; the item's `self` link is the absolute public base for resolving them: `https://data.source.coop/planet/disasterdata/hurricane-melissa-2025/`. - 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.