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Buy what has already been captured, or send a satellite to capture something new. Every sensor type, every resolution, one order.

Shanghai and the Yangtze estuary from Sentinel-2
Archive

Already captured

Most places on Earth have been photographed from orbit many times. Archive scenes are the fastest and cheapest way to see a site: we search every catalogue at once and show you each capture with its date, resolution and cloud cover.

  • Optical archive from 30 cm, radar archive from 25 cm
  • History back to 1972 for long-term change
  • Cloud-free scenes chosen and checked for you
  • Usually delivered within one working day
Tasking

Captured for you

When you need a fresh picture, we book a satellite to capture your area on the dates you choose and follow the order until the files arrive.

  • Standard: a capture within your window, at the best price
  • Priority: placed ahead in the operator's schedule
  • Emergency: the next possible pass, for disasters and incidents
  • Monitoring: repeat captures weekly, monthly or on a set calendar
Boston at about 50 cm per pixel, SkySat
Sensors

Choose by what you need to see

Typical figures across commercial and public constellations. We match the sensor to the question, not the other way round.

DataDetailBest forWorksTypical revisit
Very high resolution optical30 – 70 cmBuildings, vehicles, construction, mappingDaylight, clear skyDaily with several satellites
High resolution optical1 – 5 mLarge areas, monitoring, land useDaylight, clear skyDaily
Radar (SAR)25 cm – 20 mShips, floods, ground movement, cloudy regionsDay, night, any weatherDaily or better
Multispectral3 – 30 mCrops, vegetation, water quality, burn scarsDaylight1 – 5 days
Hyperspectral5 – 30 mMinerals, methane, crop stress, pollutionDaylightOn request
Thermal3.5 – 100 mHeat loss, industry, fires, water temperatureDay and nightDays
Night lights40 – 750 mActivity, outages, growth, flaringNightNightly
Elevation models50 cm – 30 mVolumes, flood risk, terrain, 3D citiesStereo or radar pairsOn request
Resolution

How much detail do you need?

Sharper costs more. Slide to see the same 120 by 80 metre patch at each resolution.

An illustration averaged to each pixel size, not a satellite image.
30 cm

Very high resolutionPaid

Cars, road markings, single trees and roof details.

Petermann Glacier, Greenland, in Sentinel-2 false colour
Open data

Free, and searchable first

Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat cover the whole planet every few days at no charge. Start there to understand a site, then buy higher detail only where you need it.

  • Sentinel-2: 10 m, 13 bands, every 5 days
  • Sentinel-1: radar, any weather
  • Landsat: 30 m, back to 1972
Delivery

Ready for your software

  1. FormatGeoTIFF

    Orthorectified, georeferenced, with full metadata. Also JPEG2000 or PNG on request.

  2. LevelsRaw to ready

    From raw sensor data to pan-sharpened, analysis-ready reflectance.

  3. VectorsGIS layers

    Analysis as GeoPackage, shapefile or KML, with a short report.

  4. AccessDownload or cloud

    A secure link, or delivery to your own cloud storage.

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