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.
You are looking at a Portolan / STAC catalog (catalog.json, STAC 1.1.0, Portolan profile v0.1.0) — inside Disaster Data Releases from Planet Labs PBC: Planet Crisis Response imagery for major disaster events.
High-resolution SkySat collects (~0.8 m) acquired 3–4 November 2025 over Hurricane Melissa's landfall zone in southwestern Jamaica, grouped by affected location.
Everything is plain HTTPS — no credentials, no signing, no request-payer.
Two caveats worth knowing before you write a fetch loop:
Python-urllib User-Agent. Send a
browser or curl UA if you use urllib; requests, curl, GDAL/rasterio, rio-tiler and
DuckDB all work as-is.aws s3 ls; navigate the STAC
links instead — every object links to its parent, children and items../savanna-la-mar/collection.json./black-river/collection.jsonfile:size and file:checksum (sha256 multihash, 1220-prefixed) so a download can be verified.proj:code.