Tropical Impact crater diameters elaborated with PlanetScope stereo retrievals and ICESat-2 data tracks

Commercial satellite elevation retrievals are routinely provided for many areas on the Earth surface at the 2 m scale but can be lacking from cloudy, tropical areas. We have produced elevation retrievals from PlanetScope data using the multi-temporal nature of Planet Dove data to overcome cloudy tropical conditions for the Pantasma impact crater in Nicaragua. We compliment our PlanetScope elevation retrieval with ICESat-2 tracks to clearly delineate the actual diameter of the Pantasma impact feature.

Figure 1. A PlanetScope elevation retrieval on the left with one ICESat-2 elevation track on the right. We found the use of PlanetScope elevation retrievals was of great utility in the tropics because of frequent cloudy conditions.