This is the fifth article in the “Satellite Imagery API” series. You can read information about our product, its capabilities and why we recommend that you use it in the first article: “Why the Satellite Imagery API?”
The Satellite Imagery API (also known as Agro API) allows you to get satellite data as a polygon in GeoTIFF format. You can get the image of your polygon for all available functions: True colour, False colour, NDVI and EVI indices (giving you information about vegetation level on your polygon).
You can get information about the polygon creation process from the documentation on our website or the article in our blog.
This option was designed for users who want to work with raw data. This data format provides you with ample opportunities for self-processing of satellite data.
To get a GeoTIFF image of your polygon, you need to follow two simple steps:
- In your request to our system, specify an ID for your polygon, a period of searching and your API key. In the Agro API response, you will obtain the array of JSON structures related to your polygon, sorted by date range and containing a “data” field with URL links for products (True and False colour, NDVI & EVI indices), which you can receive in GeoTIFF format.
- Copy the URL obtained in the “data” block and make an API call. Your polygon in the selected product will then be downloaded to your computer.
To work with this data format, you can use a program such as GDAL, QGIS or GRASS GIS.
See examples and parameter descriptions in our documentation.
Example of API request
Download NDVI satellite image in GeoTIFF
Please also see the other articles in this series: