Thermal Imagery

SatVu's HotSat satellites deliver high-resolution commercial thermal infrared imagery at up to 3.5 m ground sampling distance, captured day and night by a Mid-Wave Infrared sensor (3.7-5 um at night, 4.5-5 um by day) and available as stills or as video clips of up to 60 seconds. Pixels are supplied as relative digital numbers - zero is the coldest pixel in the scene - which are colour-mapped in GIS software. Users access imagery through the self-service SatVu Platform, a RESTful API and a Python SDK, receiving Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs with STAC-format JSON metadata, and can either task new collections (standard or assured priority, each with a feasibility check and a price estimate before ordering) or buy from the priced archive catalogue. Key verticals are economic monitoring of energy and commodity assets (gas flaring, refinery, power-station and mine activity), urban heat and climate resilience, national security, and critical-infrastructure and solar-farm inspection. HotSat-2 entered commercial operations in June 2026, and SatVu is scaling toward an eight-satellite constellation offering 10-20 revisits per day.