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Hi all,
as you may have noticed, sadly Planet mosaics and historical imagery were removed from GFW on April 1, 2025. Currently the Planet Monthly Mosaics (only available over the tropics) are available to purchase as a yearly bundle for 1,440 GBP/year (0r 144 GBP/month).
GFW is looking for feedback on how the removal of Planet mosaics from GFW has affected your work through a short survey here.
It would be great to understand how this has affected your work and what other alternatives you are exploring (if any).
18 May 2025 8:37pm
The loss of the free NICFI tropics data has been a huge loss for us at CI. We have many teams that were using it for lots of different use cases. If anyone has alternatives, we would love to hear about them! Just looking at what we can get from Sentinel/Landsat now.
30 September 2025 7:26pm
Some significant updates on this recently:
"Planet’s commitment to tropical forests and to the organizations that sustain them has not waned. That is why today we are proud to expand access to the Tropical Forest Observatory, which makes PlanetScope mosaics over tropical forests available for non-commercial use. It’s now open to all researchers, Indigenous and civil society organizations, nonprofits, research and development uses, and others working to protect tropical forests. The program offers access to this unique dataset for non-commercial and non-governmental applications to reduce and reverse tropical forest loss.
We have significantly reduced the cost to access our data through this program. We are offering monthly and yearly plans with the option to pay for more data as you need it — to ensure you can start small and then scale the impact of your work across large areas. We hope this will democratize access to our dataset for tropical forest monitoring purposes and make it more attainable globally"
Planet Introduces the Tropical Forest Observatory: A New Program for Reducing and Reversing Tropical Deforestation
Summary Planet is expanding the Tropical Forest Observatory—a program to make PlanetScope imagery available for preventing and reversing deforestation. The Tropical Forest Observatory offers monthly PlanetScope mosaics over tropical forest regions with a...
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22 Sep 2025
Carly Batist