Valerry35@discourse.osgeo.orgPlanetX is a free open source (GPL 3) plugin for QGIS 3.36 and newer, QGIS 4 included. It opens a 3D globe in its own window next to the QGIS map and shows the whole Earth from space down to single streets.
- QGIS project layers on the globe in the map order, a swipe to compare layers, map and globe synchronization in any CRS.
- Terrain with vertical exaggeration, atmosphere, sun lighting by time, OSM base map and 3D buildings.
- My Places - placemarks, paths and polygons, KML and KMZ import and export, tours with MP4 recording.
- Ruler on the WGS84 ellipsoid, elevation profile, slope, aspect, viewshed, insolation, flooding and water flow.
- Point clouds (LAS, LAZ, COPC through PDAL), own terrain from a project raster, drill holes and tunnels under the surface.
- Geology and geophysics layers, earthquakes, Earth cutaway, map sheet designations.
- Other bodies - the Moon, Mars, Jupiter moons and more, and the starry sky.
- PlanetX Lite is the same globe without QGIS - one Rust program for Windows, Linux and macOS and the same program as a web page. It opens scenes saved by the plugin, KML/KMZ, tours, point clouds and 3D models. Version 0.22.0 opens GeoPackage, Shapefile, GeoJSON, GPX, GML, MapInfo, FlatGeobuf, DXF and DWG as layers with styles, labels and extrusion. License Apache 2.0.
- The plugin prepares scenes, Lite shows them on any computer or phone.
- Plugin in the QGIS repository: https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/planetx/
- PlanetX Lite in the browser and downloads: https://valery35.github.io/planetx-lite/
- Questions and wishes are welcome.
Discuss this on our forum.
PlanetX 1.40 for QGIS - site analysis as one toolkit. What should come next?
Six recognition windows are merged into one Recognition window. The source is Sentinel-2 images (the window picks a summer image and a snow image itself), the globe base map, a project raster or AlphaEarth embeddings. Tasks - own samples, image colors, similar to a sample, forests and clear-cuts, fields, water, overgrown fields. OK puts a class raster and smoothed polygons into the project, the forest, field and water tasks also give center lines of roads, rivers and cuttings.
The same Site analysis submenu has slope and aspect, viewshed with buildings, insolation and shadows, flooding, flow lines and catchments, sea level, land change 2017-2025, minerals by spectrum and EMIT, earthworks. All data are open and free.
What next? Options - class accuracy and an error matrix, image time series over years, Sentinel-1 radar, batch runs over layer polygons, own class rules, a site report - or simplify. Examples of your own tasks are most welcome.
Release and manual - Release PlanetX 1.40.0 · Valery35/planetx · GitHub
Plugin - https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/planetx/