Geopera changelog: dated site, data and research updates
Changelog
What changed at Geopera, dated. Site, data, and research.
August 2026
Every industry page now opens on its own hero image. Sensor pages carry resolution, swath width and band specs alongside a plain reading of what those numbers let you see.
The trust page went live. It gathers the parts of Geopera you can check before you spend anything: the quality gate every order passes, where our accuracy claims are validated, per-AOI pricing, provenance on deliverables, and how to apply for a sample over your own area.
The research page was rebuilt around four areas. Each one carries a status label that says how far along the work actually is, from validated to in progress, with a dated list of what we have published.
The sensors page opens with a scroll-driven constellation. Every sensor we can order from is drawn as a tile, joined by hairlines to the four questions buyers ask first: how close, how often, how much ground, and what lies beyond true colour.
New guide on adding satellite imagery to QGIS: XYZ tiles, QuickMapServices and GeoTIFFs, plus the licensing trap most tutorials leave out.
July 2026
Post on Strait of Hormuz imagery and the tankers going dark, written with the tasking restrictions currently in force over the region stated up front.
Post on the discontinuation of Google Earth Pro for desktop and what to move to.
The API and enterprise pages were rebuilt from what the platform does today, and the API page joined the product navigation.
June 2026
New guide on how disturbed area is measured for Mining Rehabilitation Fund reporting in Western Australia, where the levy is charged per disturbed hectare.
Satellite-derived bathymetry shipped with its validation published beside it. Depths land within about a metre of airborne LiDAR in turbid water, and within 38 cm of held-out ICESat-2 laser photons in clear water, with an uncertainty estimate on every pixel.
Our processing pipeline got a name. Everything from ortho correction through to mosaicing is now Legato, and it has its own page describing each stage.
The free satellite data guides are now published in German and Brazilian Portuguese, with hreflang wired up so search engines serve the right one.
May 2026
New guide on atmospheric correction: what it does to a raw scene, and why surface reflectance is the input NDVI and change detection actually need.
March 2026
Two guides published: what imagery costs per square kilometre by resolution tier, archive against tasking, and how SAR images through cloud and darkness.
November 2025
Post reconstructing the orthorectification error that convinced the internet the Three Gorges Dam was buckling, and what correct terrain modelling looks like.
October 2025
The free satellite data guide was extended to five more countries: the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany and Brazil.
July 2025
Pera Portal update: Sentinel-2 in the browser, 28 indices computed on the fly without a download, multi-provider samples, and notifications when a new capture lands.
May 2025
21AT data became available through Geopera. Their sensors joined the catalogue and the published price list.
April 2025
Partnership with Wyvern announced, bringing hyperspectral imagery into the catalogue.
Geopera joined the Maxar partner ecosystem, bringing their high-resolution sensors into the catalogue.
This log starts in April 2025. Guides published before then are still on the blog under their original dates. Work that has not shipped yet is listed with its status on the research page.