Archive
Archive satellite imagery over your area
Search what more than 100 satellites have already captured over your site. Each result shows its date, resolution, cloud cover, how much of your area it covers and its price per km², so you can rule a scene out before you pay for it.
Most orders deliver within 24 hours.
How to read a search result
- Date and UTC time
- When the satellite passed. Check it against the date your question is about.
- Sensor
- Which satellite took it. Each one has a page in our sensor catalogue.
- Resolution
- The ground size of one pixel. A car is about nine pixels long at 50 cm and four or five at 1 m.
- Off-nadir angle
- How far from straight down the satellite was looking. A lower angle means less building lean and less ground hidden behind tall objects.
- Cloud cover
- Cloud across the whole scene. Preview the footprint to see whether it sits over your site.
- Coverage
- How much of your area the scene covers, in km² and as a percentage. A scene at 19% will need others beside it.
- Price per km²
- The published rate for that sensor, in AUD. An order smaller than the sensor's minimum area (5 to 25 km² for optical) is billed at the minimum.
One search across many operators, with processing in the rate
What you can search
Commercial archive from more than 100 satellites. We hold agreements with many operators, so you don't need an account with each one to find out what exists over your site.
Open data sits in the same search: Sentinel-2, Landsat and NAIP. Sentinel-2 is free in the portal, so a 10 m look at the site costs nothing.
What the rate includes
Optical archive on the rate card costs between A$9 and A$46 per km², depending on the sensor. That price includes processing: archive scenes are orthorectified, aligned, cloud-masked, pansharpened, colour-balanced and mosaicked like any tasked order, and an analyst signs off the result before delivery.
Files arrive as Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF with STAC metadata. Download them, stream them into QGIS or ArcGIS over WMTS, or pull them through the API.
Questions
Is processing included in the archive price?
Yes. Archive scenes are orthorectified, aligned, cloud-masked, pansharpened, colour-balanced and mosaicked like any tasked order, inside the per-km² rate.
What is the minimum order?
5 to 25 km² for optical, depending on the sensor. A smaller area is billed at the minimum, and the area must be at least 2 km wide, or 5 km for PERASCOPE.
How quickly does an archive order arrive?
Most orders are delivered within 24 hours.
Can I check a scene before buying it?
Yes. Each result shows its date, resolution, off-nadir angle, cloud cover and how much of your area it covers, and you can preview its footprint on the map.
What format does it arrive in?
Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF with STAC metadata, by download, streamed over WMTS or through the API. We deliver in your national coordinate system and other formats at no extra cost.
What if nothing recent or clear exists?
Order a new capture in Tasking Studio, or send us the area and we'll quote it. If the satellite can't capture your area inside the window, or the capture is cloudier than the limit you set, we reorder it or refund you in full.
See what already exists over your site
Draw the area in the portal and read the results. If nothing recent or clear enough comes back, we can quote a new capture.