The Long Waited Microsoft Planetary Computer Preview is Here

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Welcome to the Planetary Computer preview!

Your account request was recently approved, and you now have access to all the resources of the Planetary Computer.

The Geospatial and Earth Observation community has waited long to get access to the Microsoft Planetary Computer. Finally, I have got access to it. I hope you did as well.

If you do not know about the Planetary Computer by Microsoft, it is a ready-to-use cloud platform with all you need to get working on earth observation. You have the Jupyter Notebooks and all the packages you need preconfiguring for you as well as abundant sources of EO data readily available.

The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs, a flexible scientific environment that allows users to answer global questions about that data, and applications that put those answers in the hands of conservation stakeholders. — Source

The Data

One of the core components of Microsoft Planetary Computer is the availability of petabytes of EO and geospatial data. The list of available data is impressive and can grow…