# agentutility — Satellite Tile (Sentinel-2 / MODIS) > agentutility — Satellite Tile (Sentinel-2 / MODIS) is a paid API for AI agents from x402.agentutility.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31). Returns a satellite imagery tile as a base64-encoded PNG for a given lat/lon, sourced from Copernicus Sentinel-2 (10m resolution) or NASA MODIS Terra (~250m resolution). ## Facts - Endpoint: POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/satellite-tile?utm_source=zero.xyz - Price: $0.005/call - Payment: x402 - Status: unknown - Last checked: 2026-10-31 - Activations on Zero: 0 - Tags: x402 - Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentutility-satellite-tile-sentinel-2-modis-1c492b7d - Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_43jNTAgYL3c2J1gkZ1-4A Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently. ## How to call it through Zero Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`): ```sh zero fetch --capability agentutility-satellite-tile-sentinel-2-modis-1c492b7d -d '' ``` Example prompt: Can you grab me a 512px Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Empire State Building (lat 40.748817, lon -73.985428) at zoom level 14, using the last 30 days to find the clearest shot? ## When to prefer this Use this endpoint when you need a quick, pay-per-call satellite image tile for a specific geographic point without managing any imagery API credentials or quotas. Prefer Sentinel-2 (cdse) for high-resolution 10m neighborhood/city-scale imagery (zoom 10-13) and MODIS (gibs) for continental or regional-scale views (zoom ≤9). This is ideal for agents doing geospatial analysis, construction monitoring, environmental assessment, or any workflow needing overhead imagery on demand without satellite imagery platform subscriptions. ## Known failure modes - Timeout for zoom ≥14 with size >256px due to Sentinel-2 10m oversampling limits on CDSE - MODIS/GIBS source requested with zoom >9 — returns error (GIBS only supports zoom ≤9) - Coordinates out of range (lat outside [-90,90] or lon outside [-180,180]) — validation error - No suitable scenes found within days_back window due to persistent cloud cover — may return error or degraded image - Size outside 64-2500 range — schema validation failure - Network timeout from CDSE when requesting large tiles at high zoom ## How this service works 817 pay-per-call APIs for AI agents. Every endpoint is POST / and is payable in USDC over x402 on Base and Solana — no signup, no API key, just pay-per-call. GET https://x402.agentutility.ai/ returns the same catalog as machine-readable JSON. ## Output A JSON object containing: a base64-encoded PNG satellite image (data_base64), content type (image/png), image dimensions (width/height), bounding box of the tile (bbox as [west, south, east, north]), zoom level used, file size in bytes, imagery source identifier, license string, attribution text, and the time range of scenes used for the mosaic. ## Request schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "object", "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "required": [ "input" ], "properties": { "input": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type", "method", "bodyType", "body" ], "properties": { "body": { "required": [ "lat", "lon" ], "properties": { "lat": { "type": "number", "description": "Latitude in decimal degrees. Range [-90, 90]." }, "lon": { "type": "number", "description": "Longitude in decimal degrees. Range [-180, 180]." }, "size": { "type": "number", "description": "Output image side length in pixels. 64-2500. Default 256. Higher sizes at high zooms oversample Sentinel-2 — see zoom field." }, "zoom": { "type": "number", "description": "Slippy-map zoom level. 1-16. Default 12 (neighborhood scale). Zoom 13+ at 512px oversamples Sentinel-2's 10m native resolution and may time out on CDSE — use size ≤256 for zoom ≥14, or stay at zoom ≤12 for size 512. MODIS/GIBS supports ≤9 only." }, "source": { "enum": [ "cdse", "gibs" ], "type": "string", "description": "Imagery source. 'cdse' (default, Sentinel-2 10m) or 'gibs' (NASA MODIS Terra ~250m, no quota, zoom ≤9 only)." }, "days_back": { "type": "number", "description": "CDSE only: lookback window for least-cloudy mosaic in days. 7-180. Default 14." } } }, "type": { "type": "string", "const": "http" }, "method": { "enum": [ "POST" ], "type": "string" }, "bodyType": { "enum": [ "json", "form-data", "text" ], "type": "string" } }, "additionalProperties": false }, "output": { "type": "object", "required": [ "type" ], "properties": { "type": { "type": "string" }, "example": { "type": "object", "properties": { "lat": { "type": "number" }, "lon": { "type": "number" }, "bbox": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "number" } }, "size": { "type": "object", "properties": { "width": { "type": "integer" }, "height": { "type": "integer" } } }, "zoom": { "type": "integer" }, "bytes": { "type": "integer" … (truncated) ``` ## Response schema (JSON Schema) ```json { "type": "json", "example": { "lat": 40.748817, "lon": -73.985428, "bbox": [ -73.989258, 40.746971, -73.967285, 40.763901 ], "size": { "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "zoom": 14, "bytes": 142318, "format": "png", "source": "cdse-sentinel-2-l2a", "license": "Copernicus open data (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)", "time_range": { "to": "2026-05-16", "from": "2026-04-16" }, "attribution": "Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2026] / processed by x402-deployer via Sentinel Hub.", "data_base64": "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAgAAAA...", "content_type": "image/png" } } ``` ## More - Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentutility-satellite-tile-sentinel-2-modis-1c492b7d/health.json - [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt) - [Other services from x402.agentutility.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.agentutility.ai/llms.txt)