Perascope
PERASCOPE 50cm imagery, sold through Geopera, comes from the KF01B satellites. They collect panchromatic and four-band multispectral imagery across a 150km swath, wide for a 50cm sensor.
Rate card
A$12 per km² from the archive
| Product | Archive per km² | Tasking per km² |
|---|---|---|
| PERASCOPE 50 cm · min width 5 km | A$12 min 25 km² | A$23 min 100 km² |
- Excl. tax, Australian dollars, processing included on optical orders.
- Smaller areas are billed at the minimum. Narrower parts are widened to the minimum width.
How it arrives
- Files
- Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF with STAC metadata
- Processing
- Orthorectified, pansharpened, colour-balanced, mosaicked
- Included
- Raw scenes, orthorectified scenes, surface reflectance, pansharpened, mosaic, QA report
- Sign-off
- An analyst signs off every delivery
- Delivery
- Most orders within 24 hours, archive often the same day
Samples are by application: apply, a short call, then the sample.
Apply for a sample →Technical specifications
What you can do with Perascope
Detail at 50cm GSD
At 50cm GSD, vehicles are countable, and building outlines, road furniture and single trees stay distinct. The panchromatic band carries that geometry, and the 2m GSD multispectral bands are pansharpened against it, so colour products hold the same detail.
Standard index bands
Blue, green, red and near-infrared cover the everyday products: true colour, colour infrared, and the indices built from red and near-infrared (NDVI) or green and near-infrared (NDWI). Those index rasters carry the 2m GSD multispectral sampling, not the 50cm GSD panchromatic figure.
10 satellites collecting
10 satellites fly this specification, so there are more chances of a usable pass inside a tasking window and a deeper archive to search before anything is tasked. As stated by the supplier: Up to six revisits per day. That is the cadence to plan against; a cloud-free result usually takes more than one opportunity.
Wide strips
The swath is 150km at nadir, so a large area of interest is covered in few strips. Fewer strips means fewer joins to match, and less time spread across one delivery.