Purchasing Satellite
Imagery & DEM’s

Thank you for your interest in Apollo Mapping’s imagery and digital elevation models (DEMs)!

As part of our service to deliver streamlined satellite imagery and DEMs, we believe in responding quickly whether you require medium-resolution imagery for monitoring remote sites and detecting large landscape changes to the highest-resolution imagery for modeling the environmental impacts of a new housing community.

We value you, clients who need imagery to complete tasks but don’t want to code or invoke an API for your project.

We understand that you just need ready-to-go images to proceed with your job as quickly as possible while honoring your budget.

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What do you need from your imagery?

WorldView-3

Highest resolution, most spectral bands, more collections, and the best positional accuracy? If your project demands the highest resolution imagery available and/or requires spectral analysis, then WorldView-3 should be your first choice. And with an archive that grows by nearly 680,000 square kilometers per day, we are sure to have the imagery you need!

WorldView-2

Improved spectral analysis, extreme agility, and high accuracy? WorldView-2 features the first 8-band multispectral imaging system, adding a coastal, yellow, red edge and an additional near-infrared red (NIR) band to the traditional four bands. Positioned 770 kilometers above the planet, WorldView-2 collects up to 785,000 sq km of 8-band imagery every day. No wonder it’s our best seller!

WorldView Legion

Crisp resolution, diverse spectral bands, frequent revisits, and a robust archive of coverage? The WorldView Legion constellation allows Apollo Mapping to offer increased imaging capacity and faster delivery times to its customers across various sectors, including defense, mining, oil and gas, engineering, education and research, and humanitarian relief.

Pléiades 1

Daily global coverage, multiple imaging modes, and a quick response for emergencies? The Pléiades 1 twins are exceptionally agile with the ability to collect one million square kilometers of high-resolution imagery per day, per satellite. Featuring daily revisit time to any location on the planet, the Pléiades constellation separates itself from the competition for site monitoring and projects requiring rapid imagery acquisitions.

Planetscope

Near real-time imagery, massive global archive, daily monitoring, and red edge spectral data? Planet continues to improve their Doves with multiple launches each year, a major differentiator to macro-satellites like WorldView-3 which only improve every 5 to 10 years with a new launch.

Pléiades Neo

Millions of square kilometers per day, 6-band multispectral, twice a day visits, and fully commercial? Along with the 30-cm panchromatic band, Pléiades Neo boasts six 1.2-meter multispectral bands, including deep blue, blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared. Pléiades Neo is entirely open to commercial clients, with no government ownership of tasking time, thereby increasing its collection capacity.

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What resolution imagery do you need?

The uses of medium and high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery are as vast as the human imagination. Here are two lists of several situations when it makes the most sense to use high and medium-resolution imagery.

High-Resolution Scenarios

  • Plan the location of a solar and/or wind farm
  • Assess the health of urban forest canopies
  • Construct accurate topographic models
  • Digitize surface cracks on rapidly melting glaciers
  • Plan field survey locations and methodology
  • Model the environmental impacts of a new housing community, particularly on the local plant species
  • Trace footpaths and roadways in rural and urban environments
  • Assess the amount of new building in an urban environment via change detection

Medium-Resolution Scenarios

  • A cost-effective means to obtain base layer imagery for large areas
  • In regions with historically high-cloud cover and thus lack of coverage with high-resolution imagery
  • Monitor remote sites and detect landscape changes
  • For projects that require the most up-to-date imagery over large areas
  • Predict regional agricultural yields before harvest
  • Macro-scale spectral analysis that requires multiple temporal datasets
  • Replace Landsat 7 imagery that has missing scan lines
  • Supplement free lower-resolution satellite imagery such as ASTER and MODIS

How long will it take to receive my imagery?

We get this question all the time. The answer depends on the variables, but one of the main factors is whether we can find your imagery in an archive or if we will need to place a tasking order.

Tasking Order

A tasking order is an on-demand service whereby clients define a custom polygon on the planet to be imaged by the next available high resolution satellite. The time to collect this area of interest is controlled by local weather conditions and competition from surrounding tasking orders.

Archive Order

An archive order relies on a historic database of high resolution imagery with a specific time/date stamp and known cloud cover. Clients are able to browse available data with the assistance of Apollo Mapping to determine the best imagery for their intended applications.

Still have questions about satellite imagery and DEMs?

Complete the form with any questions you might have about high-resolution imagery, DEMs, or any of the other products/services we offer here at Apollo Mapping. We’ll happily answer any questions to make the process easy for you.

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Find the imagery you need, your way.

Buy instantly online or work with a satellite imagery expert.

From area of interest to delivered assets — typically within 24 hours.

Self-serve

Search & Order Instantly

Define your area of interest, compare results, and request pricing
— all in minutes.

Search satellite imagery

Best for experienced users who know what they need.

Done for you

Tell Us What You Need

Share your area, timeframe, and goals
— we’ll handle the rest.

Request expert assistance

Ideal if you’re unsure which imagery is right for your project.