--- title: Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer | daily.dev description: Microsoft's Planetary Computer is a free geospatial data platform that aggregates satellite and sensor data from commercial, academic, and government sources.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/visualizing-the-world-with-planetary-computer-5y8kbhjuj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft's Planetary Computer is a free geospatial data platform that aggregates satellite and sensor data from commercial, academic, and government sources.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/visualizing-the-world-with-planetary-computer-5y8kbhjuj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5Y8KbHjUj.png og:image:alt: Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Visualizing the world with Planetary Computer **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft's Planetary Computer is a free geospatial data platform that aggregates satellite and sensor data from commercial, academic, and government sources. It exposes STAC-based APIs for querying spatiotemporal data, supports Python and R for data science workflows, and includes an Explorer UI for prototyping visualizations. Developers can layer datasets using tools like Folium on OpenStreetMap, generate code snippets from Explorer queries, and work with GitHub Codespaces or QGIS plugins. Rate limits apply based on Azure region and token usage, with best performance in West Europe. A commercial tier, Planetary Computer Pro, extends the platform to private and commercial data sources. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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