🛰 Real Sentinel-2 · Landsat 9 · VIIRS data

See what's happening on the ground —
without setting foot on it.

Draw a region anywhere on Earth. Get real satellite-derived water quality, geology, vegetation, and urban growth readings in minutes — the same analysis that used to take a field team weeks and thousands of dollars.

earthobservation.land/app — Turbidity (NDTI)
TURBID · Jan 2024
CLEAR · Jan 2026
↔ DRAG TO COMPARE — this is a live feature of the actual platform, not a mockup
What satellite imaging analysis is

Every point on Earth gets photographed by a satellite every few days. We turn that into an answer.

Sentinel-2, Landsat 9, and VIIRS orbit the planet continuously, capturing reflected light across bands the human eye can't see — infrared, red-edge, shortwave. Specific combinations of those bands reveal specific things: turbidity in water, chlorophyll in algae, moisture in soil, heat radiating from a city at night. We run the well-established scientific formulas for each of these automatically, on whatever region and date range you choose.

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No equipment, no site visit

The satellite already took the photo. We just need to ask it the right question — you never need to send anyone anywhere.

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History back to 2015

Compare today against five, eight, ten years ago. Field surveys can only tell you about the day someone showed up.

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Works anywhere on the planet

The same lake, farm, city, or coastline — anywhere in the world, at the same cost and turnaround time.

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Published, peer-reviewed methods

Every index — NDTI, NDVI, NDCI, NDWI, and more — is a documented formula from the remote sensing literature, not a proprietary black box.

Sentinel-210m resolution · 5-day revisit
Landsat 930m resolution · 16-day revisit
VIIRS DNB500m resolution · nightly, since 2012
CoverageGlobal, no restrictions
ComputeGoogle Earth Engine
TurnaroundSeconds to minutes
How it reduces cost

A field survey answers one question, once, for one place. A satellite reading answers it for anywhere, repeatedly, for a fraction of the cost.

This isn't a replacement for ground-truthing entirely — it's a way to know exactly where and when ground-truthing is actually worth sending someone.

Task
Traditional field survey
This platform
Water quality sample, one site
$150–500 + travel + lab fees
Included in subscription
Turnaround time
Days to weeks (lab results)
Seconds
Historical comparison (5 years)
Rarely available — no past samples
Instant, back to 2015
Coverage of a large lake/region
A handful of point samples
Every pixel, wall to wall
Repeat monitoring (monthly)
Multiplies the cost above every time
Same subscription
Urban growth over 10 years
Effectively unmeasurable retroactively
One trend chart
Who this helps

Four domains, one platform

The same underlying technology, tuned with different band formulas for four very different questions.

💧 Water quality

Turbidity, algal blooms, chlorophyll, clarity — for lakes, reservoirs, and coastal water, without a boat.

🪨 Geology

Mineral composition, salt deposits, and rock type from spectral signatures — a first-pass survey before drilling.

🌿 Vegetation & shoreline

Reed beds, riparian cover, wetland health — track ecological change across entire watersheds.

🏙 Urban development

Nighttime lights, built-up area, high-res true colour — quantify a city's growth year over year.

Enterprise-only

Beyond index readings — real counting and classification

Three tools that go further than a single number: automatically count individual objects and classify entire landscapes, using the same real satellite data.

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Tree & palm counting

Example: "How many date palms are actually on my farm?" Draw your farm's boundary and get an automatic count — each tree is detected as an individual peak in vegetation greenness, the same technique used in commercial orchard surveys.

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Water body inventory

Example: "How many lakes and reservoirs are in this province?" Draw a boundary around an entire region — even a whole country — and get every distinct water body automatically counted and measured.

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Land cover classification

Example: "What's actually out there?" Automatically segment any region into distinct land cover types — water, vegetation, bare soil, built-up — with the exact area of each, no manual training data required.

Honest note: these tools give strong, defensible estimates — not laboratory-certified counts. Tree counting works best on mature, moderately-spaced orchards; very dense plantings can under-count. Land cover classes are grouped automatically but not auto-labelled — you confirm what each class represents by comparing it against the image. Full detail on the Accuracy & Methodology page.
Pricing

Three plans, built around how much of the platform you need

Basic
$19/mo
  • ✓ Water Quality + Shoreline Vegetation
  • ✓ 50 readings / month
  • ✓ Print reports & save images
  • ✗ Compare slider & trend charts
  • ✗ Advanced Analytics
Pro
$59/mo
  • ✓ All families except Archaeology & Terrain
  • ✓ 300 readings / month
  • ✓ Compare slider & trend charts unlocked
  • ✓ Print reports & save images
  • ✗ Advanced Analytics
Enterprise
$199/mo
  • ✓ Every family, including Archaeology & Terrain
  • ✓ 2,000 readings/month
  • ✓ Tree counting, water body inventory, land classification
  • ✓ Priority support
How it works

From nothing to a full report in four steps

1

Search or draw

Type any place on Earth, or draw a region directly on the satellite map.

2

Pick a date range & index

Choose what to measure and over what period — a single date, or years of history.

3

Take a reading

Real Earth Engine computation runs in the background — statistics, imagery, and a written explanation.

4

Export or compare

Print a report, save the image, plot a trend, or drag the slider to compare start vs end.

28+
Indices across 4 domains
10m
Sharpest resolution available
2015
Historical data available from
Global
Any region, no restrictions

Draw your first region in the next two minutes.

No field team, no lab fees, no waiting weeks for results — start with a free trial.

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