# Citiview Satellite Imagery

> Citiview Satellite Imagery is a paid API for AI agents from agents.citiviewgroup.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Returns a NASA satellite image (MODIS/VIIRS true-color or night lights) of any location on any date, centered on a place name or coordinates with a configurable area size

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agents.citiviewgroup.com/v1/satellite?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-satellite-imagery-ac20f79e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Kx83dSA2ZJvL95K9CVOId

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 citiview-satellite-imagery-ac20f79e
```

Example prompt: Can you get me a NASA VIIRS satellite image of the Los Angeles area centered at 34.05, -118.25 for January 8, 2025, covering about 500 km wide, so I can see the wildfire smoke?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need actual NASA satellite imagery of a specific place and date — especially for natural events like storms, wildfires, floods, snow cover, or night lights. Prefer this over map tile services when you need historical true-color or thermal imagery from a specific date. Use when geospatial visual context from space is required rather than a street map or rendered basemap.

## Known failure modes

- Cloud cover may obscure ground features on certain dates
- Date out of satellite data range returns an error or empty result
- Invalid or out-of-range coordinates return an error
- Place name not recognized if 'near' parameter is ambiguous
- size_km outside 50-2000 range may be rejected
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

Satellite image of any place on any date from NASA (daily true-color MODIS or VIIRS, or night lights), centered on a place or coordinates with your choice of area size. Good for storms, smoke, fires,…

## Output

A satellite image (likely JPEG or PNG) of the requested location and date, rendered from NASA MODIS VIIRS true-color or night-lights data at the specified pixel resolution and geographic area width.

## 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"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "date": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "YYYY-MM-DD (default yesterday)"
      },
      "near": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Place"
      },
      "layer": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "viirs (default) | terra | aqua | night"
      },
      "pixels": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "size_km": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Width of the area, 50-2000"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/citiview-satellite-imagery-ac20f79e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agents.citiviewgroup.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.citiviewgroup.com/llms.txt)