are all scenes that meet critera being reported?

[BriannaLind]

Planet data collection functions similar to Landsat in that data is operationally collected constantly. This differs from similar resolution satellites like WorldView that can 'point' to different places and can be tasked with collecting images at a particular place and time. Given this information for most places in the world, the Planet constellation collects data nearly once a day, sometimes more...... this means that any lat long for a 3-year period (post 2021), it would be reasonable to expect roughly ~1000-1500 images. planet_overlap appears to be underestimating scenes post processing; however the 'total items fetched' seems extremely reasonable. Given that the cloud filter is set to 0.95, why are more scenes not being reported?

See example below

PS C:\Users\brian\planet_overlap> C:\Users\brian\AppData\Local\Python\pythoncore-3.14-64\Scripts\planet_overlap.exe --aoi-file .\cal01.geojson --start-date 2023-01-01 --end-date 2025-12-31 --output-dir .\output --max-cloud 0.95
INFO:root:Starting: main
INFO:root:Starting planet_overlap CLI
INFO:root:AOI file: .\cal01.geojson
INFO:root:Date range: 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31
INFO:root:Output directory: .\output
INFO:root:Loading AOI...
INFO:root:Loaded 1 AOI(s)
INFO:root:Created 1 spatial tile(s)
INFO:root:Created 37 date range(s)
INFO:root:Fetching Planet data...
INFO:root:Planet API session created successfully
INFO:root:Processing 37 tile/date combinations
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 1/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 29 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 2/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 32 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 3/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 37 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 4/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 26 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 5/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 67 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 6/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 26 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 7/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 24 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 8/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 27 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 9/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 35 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 10/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 35 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 11/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 37 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 12/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 41 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 13/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 26 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 14/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 38 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 15/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 55 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 16/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 46 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 17/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 33 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 18/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 54 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 19/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 55 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 20/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 39 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 21/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 37 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 22/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 47 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 23/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 50 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 24/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 38 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 25/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 38 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 26/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 44 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 27/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 34 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 28/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 37 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 29/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 36 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 30/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 53 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 31/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 40 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 32/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 54 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 33/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 44 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 34/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 41 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 35/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 40 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 36/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 13 items for search
INFO:root:Processing tile 1/1, date range 37/37
INFO:planet_overlap.client:Found 14 items for search
INFO:root:Total items fetched: 1422
INFO:root:Processing results...
C:\Users\brian\AppData\Local\Python\pythoncore-3.14-64\Lib\site-packages\pyogrio\geopandas.py:917: UserWarning: 'crs' was not provided. The output dataset will not have projection information defined and may not be usable in other systems.
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INFO:pyogrio._io:Created 551 records
INFO:root:Results saved to output\results.geojson
INFO:root:Properties saved to output\properties.json
INFO:root:Total scenes found: 551
INFO:root:Date range covered: 2023-01-18T18:28:05.437968Z to 2025-12-28T19:20:34.003119Z
INFO:root:Average cloud cover: 7.43%
INFO:root:Average sun angle: 40.5°
INFO:root:planet_overlap CLI completed successfully
INFO:root:Completed: main | Runtime: 46.65s | Peak Memory: 8.29 MB
PS C:\Users\brian\planet_overlap> cd outputs

[BriannaLind]

Notes:
add explanation of "total items fetched" vs. total scenes found. Right now, not clear what discrepancy is.... is that the number of 'test' images collected? dropped bc of cloud cover?