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Image Hunter is a search engine for finding and purchasing commercial satellite imagery (including Planet, Airbus, Maxar, and many Chinese satellite companies) without a subscription.
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Image Hunter is a search engine for finding and purchasing commercial satellite imagery (including Planet, Airbus, Maxar, and many Chinese satellite companies) without a subscription.
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Use Apollo Image Hunter to find and purchase commercial satellite imagery on an a la carte basis. Unlike other satellite tools such as , Image Hunter indexes imagery from , including:
Planet Labs PBC SkySat and PlanetScope (American)
Airbus Pléiades Neo (European)
Maxar WorldView (American)
Jilin-1 (Chinese)
SuperView-2 (Chinese)
KOMPSAT (Korean)
TerraSAR-X (German)
Beijing-3 (Chinese)
The search interface is similar to or Planet Explorer. To find imagery, use the area selection tools to define your region of interest. By default, results are sorted by the most recent imagery, but you can also use date filters to find imagery from a particular point in time, and to filter by cloud cover, image resolution, and particular satellites.
In Image Hunter, you can only see a very low resolution preview of the image. Typically, this is enough to let you confirm that the image isn't too cloudy, but not to do much more than that. To order the image, you must first request a quote from Apollo Imaging. Within a couple days, they will email you back with the price and a link to purchase the image, then send it as a GeoTIFF.
The quotation and order process takes several business days, so it is not possible to immediately receive satellite imagery.
It is operated by Apollo Mapping, an American satellite imagery broker.
Logan Williams
Satellite imagery is priced per square kilometer, typically with a minimum order of 25 square kilometers. Prices vary by satellite company and resolution. Typical prices are around $6.00/square kilometer for Jilin-1 imagery (70cm resolution), (50cm resolution) and (25cm resolution.)
Imagery is usually delivered in GeoTIFF format. These files are large, and best viewed in or other GIS software.