UP42

Organisations struggle to operationalise Earth observation data because it is fragmented across providers, contracts, formats and tools. The UP42 platform centralises access to archive imagery and on‑demand tasking from leading satellite, aerial and drone providers, standardises delivery, and offers enhancement and analytics processes so teams can automate geospatial workflows and feed results directly into their own systems.

Key capabilities:

• Catalog: Search, preview and order archive data with instant pricing — multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal, SAR, elevation and lidar — from providers including Airbus (Pléiades, Pléiades Neo, SPOT, TerraSAR-X), Vantor (WorldView), Planet (SkySat), BlackSky, ICEYE, Capella Space, Umbra, Satellogic, Pixxel and Wyvern, plus free Sentinel-2 and Landsat data, under a single contract.
• Tasking: Task satellites and aerial systems to capture new data over your area of interest, with up-front price estimates, feasibility checks and acquisition tracking.
• Processing: Run enhancement algorithms (pansharpening, orthorectification, coregistration, true colour conversion, upsampling) and analytics (change detection; building, ship, storage-tank, aircraft and tree detection) on delivered data.
• Data management & delivery: STAC-based storage that converts rasters to cloud-optimised GeoTIFFs and vectors to GeoJSON, with an ArcGIS Pro add-in, plus WMTS streaming into GIS and automated cloud bucket delivery on the Enterprise plan.
• API & Python SDK: Programmatic access to automate search, ordering, processing and retrieval at scale.

What distinguishes UP42 is the combination of a broad multi‑provider data catalogue, standardised cloud-native delivery and enterprise governance — budgets, a four-tier user role hierarchy, SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance — in one platform. Founded in Berlin in 2019, UP42 is part of Neo Space Group.