Hydrosat Thermal Infrared Satellite Technology
Operate When Others Can’t. See What Others Miss.
Our constellations expand what’s possible with market-leading thermal insights. Hydrosat’s systems have flight-heritage and are engineered to meet standards for civil and national security missions.
Cutting-edge Space Technology
Combined with 30+ years of field testing
Hydrosat deploys advanced thermal infrared satellite technology to deliver high-resolution, analysis-ready imagery for global resilience leaders in agriculture, water management, and national security.
Our vertically integrated approach enables tighter control over performance, quality, and innovation at every stage of the system. From sensor engineering to calibration to API delivery through our platform, we provide reliable end-to-end thermal insights.
Our Constellation
Prepare for the future
Our next-generation constellation captures global imagery across the visible, near-infrared, and long-wave infrared spectra at exceptional spatiotemporal resolution.
With our market-leading swath, it will deliver daily, continuous monitoring of any location, combining 25 m high-resolution thermal imagery with coincident 10 m visible data.
This unmatched commercial capability enables continuous, analysis-ready surface temperature insights to support advanced environmental monitoring and decision-making worldwide.
Why Thermal Matters
Detect change before it’s visible
Hydrosat is a leader in infrared technology, delivering high-confidence insights for large-scale monitoring challenges. With flight-heritage, we already enable broad-area detection with the sensitivity required to identify subtle thermal signatures, ensuring both scale and precision.
Signal Before the Noise
Thermal anomalies often emerge weeks before changes become visible to the human eye or traditional sensors. By identifying these early signals across large areas, analysts can tip higher-resolution sensors to the right location and uncover the story sooner.
Persistent Awareness
Thermal sensors can observe continually-day and night-and remain effective through dust, fog, and light vegetation. This makes it possible to detect surface patterns and anomalies across wide areas, that conventional imaging cannot reliably detect.
Satellites on Orbit
Following the launch of VZ-1 and VZ-2 (2025), our constellation is what drives us forward to bring change to people's lives, businesses and governments.
| Orbit Type | Sun synchronous |
|---|---|
| Orbit Altitude | ~510 km |
| Overpass Time | ~10:30 am or ~1:30 pm |
| Spectral bands | 7 VNIR + 2 LWIR |
| GSD | 30 m (VNIR), 70 m (LWIR) |
| Field of view | 70 km |
The Next-Generation
Daily detection of hidden changes and emerging risk
Hydrosat’s growing satellite constellation is designed in-house with proprietary payloads built by our experts to deliver daily, global thermal and visible imagery at unprecedented spatial and radiometric performance.
The system will capture 10 m resolution VNIR bands and 25 m LWIR bands, producing a product optimized for advanced analytics and large-scale monitoring.
Each satellite is engineered to deliver highly precise, consistently calibrated measurements with secure, low-latency data delivery – ensuring users receive accurate thermal insights quickly and reliably.
Use Cases & Applications
Discover how organizations are leveraging Hydrosat's thermal intelligence to address real-world challenges across food security, water security, industrial monitoring, and more.
Agriculture
Identification of unseen crop stress, optimizing irrigation strategies, evaluating drought impacts, and monitoring crop growth.
Wildfire
Enhanced disaster preparedness by tracking ignition risk, mapping heat perimeters and pinpointing emergency response efforts, in real time.
Urban Heat
Monitoring heat islands and planning urban cooling initiatives for safer and healthier communities.
Energy
Detect the smallest anomalous activity, assess efficiency, and ensure environmental compliance of large-scale industrial facilities.
Aquaculture
Identify sea surface temperature hotspots and monitor the health of fish stocks, for more manageable and sustainable fisheries.
Defense & Intelligence
Monitor the thermal signatures of strategic locations, enabling characterization of anomalies quickly and precisely.
Want to Explore Our Data?
Hydrosat's Discovery Platform
Explore our catalog of thermal insights, download data, or streamline into your systems via our STAC-compliant API.