97.3% change-detection accuracy
Outperforming the next-best commercial model by 11.6 points on the SpaceNet-7 benchmark for flood and building damage, published in Q4 2024.
- Spica
- 97.3%
- Best incumbent
- 85.7%
- Margin
- +11.6 pts
Earth observation · decision-grade
Precision satellite intelligence for a planet in motion.
Spica Space operates one of the densest commercial constellations dedicated to sub-meter revisit, then fuses every pass through a proprietary AI stack to deliver decision-grade change detection within 90 minutes of acquisition. We turn raw pixels into verified events — illegal dredging, crop loss, methane plumes, infrastructure encroachment — so operators stop guessing and start acting.
Constellation telemetry
0.7 m
Native resolution across the 11-satellite array
4 h
Median revisit over 94% of Earth's landmass
22×
Downlink compression via onboard AI inference
4.2 M
Analyzed tiles streamed daily to enterprise tenants
Independently benchmarked
Numbers a procurement officer will actually check.
We avoid superlatives and publish the test that matters. Three measurements, each run by a third party.
78 minutes median, audit-verified
Independently benchmarked by the Open Geospatial Consortium in Q1 2025 across 1,820 enterprise tasking requests against four competing operators.
- Spica (median)
- 78 min
- OGC sample size
- 1,820 requests
- Audience share
- 94% of landmass covered
FedRAMP Moderate + ISO 27001
The only commercial EO provider holding FedRAMP Moderate authorization as of November 2024, alongside SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications.
- FedRAMP
- Moderate
- ISO
- 27001 : 2022
- Audit window
- Trailing 12 months
Where the platform earns its keep
One verified event per vertical, not a feature list.
Operations and risk teams use the same pipeline; the output adapts to the question being asked.
Crop loss at sub-field scale
Detecting hail and standing-water damage within hours of the event across mid-tier row crop operations in the U.S. Midwest, supporting parametric insurance payouts without in-person claims adjustment.
Methane plume quantification
Shortwave-infrared tasking for upstream operators to localize super-emitters within 78 minutes and assign a quantified flux estimate to each event.
Illegal dredging & vessel activity
Persistent monitoring of coastal concessions to surface sanctioned dredging, transshipment at sea, and unauthorized port construction along tropical coastlines.
Catastrophe footprint in 48 h
Delivering damage polygons to a leading global reinsurer within hours of a major tropical cyclone, replacing overflight-based adjuster scheduling.
Infrastructure encroachment, road and rail
Tracking right-of-way expansion, illegal settlements and encroachment around critical transport corridors for sovereign customers, delivered through FedRAMP Moderate-authorized environments.
Verified event · maritime
From raw pixel to a police referral in 11 hours.
On 19 February at 05:11 UTC, Spica-04 passed a coastal concession in the Mekong delta on its 4-hour median revisit. Onboard inference flagged a 2.3 km² turbidity anomaly inconsistent with tidal signatures. The alert, including a confidence-weighted plume polygon and 0.7 m imagery, reached a maritime monitoring customer's inbox 71 minutes later.
A second pass at 09:14 UTC confirmed expansion against the prevailing current model. The customer escalated the verified event to local authorities the same afternoon. Spica's change-detection model sustained 97.3% accuracy on the SpaceNet-7 benchmark across flood and building damage during the same quarter.
- 05:11 UTCSpica-04 acquisition, onboard inference flags anomaly
- 06:22 UTCVerified tile delivered via API to the tenant
- 09:14 UTCConfirmatory pass shows plume expansion
- 16:40 UTCCustomer escalates to local coastguard
Platform datasheet
Specifications as a procurement document.
The surface area a remote-sensing or GIS engineer will need to evaluate. Every row answers a question we have already received.
Resolution modes
Three canonical product levels that map to the same archive and the same tasking queue.
- L1B
- 0.7 m panchromatic, 2.8 m multispectral, orthorectified, RPC metadata
- L2A
- Surface reflectance, atmospheric correction, 12-bit radiometric depth
- L3
- Tile-aligned to Planetary Computer grid, cloud-masked, ready for analytics
Spectral bands
Eight spectral bands per pass, calibrated against vicarious ground targets.
- RGB + NIR
- Standard 4-band stack at 2.8 m
- Red edge
- Vegetation stress and chlorophyll indexing
- SWIR ×2
- Moisture, burn scars, methane absorption windows
- Panchromatic
- Single-band 0.7 m native resolution
Delivery formats & APIs
Served through a streaming API and a static archive bucket, both available behind the same authentication.
- Streaming
- WebSocket + REST, GeoJSON change polygons, COG tiles
- Static
- Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF, Zarr, STAC catalog with Planetary Computer prefix
- Auth
- OAuth 2.0, short-lived tokens, FedRAMP Moderate tenant isolation
- SDK
- Python, TypeScript and R · open-source on GitHub
Tasking, CRS & schemas
Task a satellite in plain JSON or through the dashboard. Outputs conform to OGC standards.
- Tasking
- AOI polygon, window, priority, max cloud, off-nadir bounds
- CRS
- EPSG:4326, EPSG:3857 and any UTM zone, reprojection on the fly
- Schemas
- STAC 1.1, OGC API — Features, ISO 19115 metadata
- Uptime
- 99.97% trailing 12 months across the public API surface
In production with operators across five regulated verticals
A leading global reinsurer · a G20 finance ministry · a top-ten global port operator · a multilateral development institution · a national environment agency · 380+ organizations in production
- Series B$84M · March 2024 · Lux Capital lead
- Team142 across Boulder, Toulouse, Singapore · 41 PhDs
- Retention128% net revenue retention · 2024 investor letter
- Open sourceSpica-Change · PyTorch · 140+ citations
30 minutes · live operator console
Book a walkthrough of the Spica Insight platform.
We open the console, point it at your region, and deliver a verified event of your choice live in the call — no slides. Your security team is welcome on the call.
- Sub-meter revisit over 94% of Earth's landmass
- 0.7 m native resolution, 4-hour median revisit
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP Moderate
- Same-day handoff to a named mission engineer
Prefer email?
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