Satellite Data Sources

High-resolution multispectral optical imagery. Thirteen spectral bands from visible through near-infrared and shortwave infrared make it the workhorse for vegetation, land cover, and water analysis.

Typical uses: True color and false color composites, NDVI / EVI / NDWI vegetation and water indices, crop and forest monitoring, land-cover change.

C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar that images the surface day or night and sees straight through cloud, smoke, and light rain. Delivered as GRD products in VV and VH polarizations.

Typical uses: Flood mapping, surface-change detection, vessel detection, and all-weather monitoring where optical imagery is blocked by clouds.

Analysis-ready, Radiometrically Terrain Corrected backscatter derived from Sentinel-1 (C-band). Terrain correction with a DEM makes backscatter values comparable across slopes — ideal for quantitative and time-series work in hilly terrain.

Typical uses: Time-series backscatter comparison, terrain-aware change detection, and SAR analysis where consistent radiometry matters.

The VIIRS Day/Night Band measures visible light at night. NASA Black Marble products are calibrated and atmospherically corrected, turning city lights into a proxy for human activity.

Typical uses: Tracking urban development and electrification, estimating economic activity, and detecting power outages after disasters.

Near real-time thermal fire detections from VIIRS and MODIS. Hotspots are updated daily and overlaid directly on the map — no account or API key required to browse.

Typical uses: Wildfire situational awareness, monitoring fire spread, and correlating thermal anomalies with events on the Watchfloor.

Bring GeoTIFF, Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF, or GeoJSON files and combine them with satellite imagery on a single map. Your data stays alongside the open sources for custom analysis.

Typical uses: Overlaying field boundaries, custom AOIs, survey results, or third-party rasters together with Sentinel and VIIRS imagery.