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 collection (collection.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.
Post-event 50 cm Planet SkySat and Pelican collects acquired 26–28 June 2026 over the locations affected by the 24 June 2026 Venezuela earthquake — Caracas, La Guaira, Catia La Mar, Puerto Cabello, Valencia, Independencia & Ocumare de la Costa, and Yumare. Each Item is one scene (titled by location and time) bundling the available visual, pansharpened-analytic and usable-data-mask COGs; filter by the location / location_slug properties.
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.Each collection publishes a STAC-GeoParquet mirror of its items — one row per item, with geometry and all properties. Query it directly, no download:
That is almost always faster than walking the rel:"item" links, which are there for
STAC clients and for humans clicking through the browser.
Every raster is a cloud-optimized GeoTIFF, so read the window you need rather than the file:
Asset keys on each item (udm used above):
udm — Unusable Data Mask (UDM) (roles: data, snow-ice, cloud, cloud-shadow)udm2 — Usable Data Mask (UDM2) — per-pixel quality (roles: data, snow-ice, cloud, cloud-shadow)analytic — Pansharpened 4-band (BGRN) analytic COG (roles: data)visual — Visual (true-colour) ortho COG (roles: data, visual)thumbnail — Scene preview (roles: thumbnail)file:size and file:checksum (sha256 multihash, 1220-prefixed) so a download can be verified.proj:code.