Developer API and platform services that embed search, ordering and delivery of satellite, aerial and drone imagery from 700+ sensors into apps
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SkyWatch BUILD is SkyWatch's offering for software developers who want to add Earth observation imagery search, purchase and delivery to their own applications. Without it, an application has to build identity, sourcing, payments and fulfilment itself and negotiate a separate contract with each imagery provider. BUILD exposes these functions through the SkyWatch platform's REST API (documented as the SkyWatch EarthCache API) and seven platform services: identity (user creation, KYC checks, permissions), archive and tasking search across what SkyWatch states are 700+ satellite, aerial and drone sensors, ordering, fulfilment with automated quality assessment, payments, policy rules, and geocoding and area-of-interest management. The catalogue includes free Sentinel-2 and Landsat open data, Airbus Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, SPOT and TerraSAR-X, Maxar/Vantor imagery including WorldView Legion, Planet SkySat and Tanager, and SAR from ICEYE, Capella Space and Umbra. Orders are delivered as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs with STAC metadata and can be streamed as DirectView or WMTS layers into ArcGIS or QGIS; webhooks and AOI monitors notify applications of order events and new imagery. Developers request access to BUILD, and their users sign in with a single SkyWatch ID that SkyWatch says reaches its network of 7,500+ organisations. Data is billed pay-as-you-use, and partner applications can earn a revenue share on every data transaction that flows through them. Scribble Maps integrated BUILD in 2024 so that its users can order satellite imagery inside its online mapping tool.
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Pre-processing & Enhancement
Cleans, calibrates, and standardises data for quality.
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SkyWatch
SkyWatch is a Canadian geospatial data platform company that gives access to satellite, aerial and drone imagery from more than 700 sensors through one account, with transparent pay-as-you-use pricing. Its products cover finding and buying imagery (EXPLORE), managing procurement, storage and sharing across an organisation (HUB), ordering imagery inside ArcGIS (MAP), a developer API for building imagery ordering into applications (BUILD), and a distribution service for data providers (CONNECT). The company was founded by a team that met at the NASA Space Apps Challenge in 2014 and launched its first geospatial data API in 2016.
2014
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11-50
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Canada
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Embeds data and insights into existing systems and workflows.
