# sat.ipintel.ai Satellite Observe

> sat.ipintel.ai Satellite Observe is a paid API for AI agents from sat.ipintel.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.025/call, status healthy (last checked 2026-09-15, last successful call 2026-09-10).

Fetches satellite imagery and scene metadata (PNG URLs) for given coordinates using true color, vegetation, water, thermal, or radar analysis modes.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://sat.ipintel.ai/satellite-observe
- Price: $0.025/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: healthy
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Last successful call: 2026-09-10
- Success rate: 98% of calls made through Zero
- Rating: 4.7 / 5 from 1 review
- Activations on Zero: 53
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sat-ipintel-ai-satellite-observe-1a2a81fb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7ddcZiGF3GYe4AQLsdDMK

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 sat-ipintel-ai-satellite-observe-1a2a81fb -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull a vegetation-mode satellite image centered on 37.7749, -122.4194 with a 5000-meter radius, preferring a scene from 2024-06-15 and allowing up to 30% cloud cover?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need actual satellite-derived imagery or band-specific analysis (vegetation NDVI, water index, thermal, SAR radar) for any global coordinates, especially when cloud-independent radar is needed or when environmental/agricultural/disaster analysis is required. Prefer over generic map tile APIs when spectral analysis modes matter.

## Known failure modes

- No scene available within the date tolerance window — try increasing date_tolerance_days
- Cloud cover threshold too restrictive for optical modes — raise max_cloud_cover or switch to radar mode
- Coordinates out of satellite coverage area — returns error with no imagery
- Invalid date format supplied — must match YYYY-MM-DD pattern
- Radius outside allowed range (500–50000 m) — returns validation error
- Payment not received or insufficient — x402 payment required error

## How this service works

Agent-ready satellite observations for any coordinates. Returns PNG image URLs and scene metadata for true color, vegetation, water, thermal, or radar analysis.

## Output

Returns one or more PNG image URLs for the requested satellite observation along with scene metadata including acquisition date, cloud cover percentage, satellite band/mode used, and geographic bounding extent.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "lat": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 90,
   "minimum": -90
  },
  "lon": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 180,
   "minimum": -180
  },
  "date": {
   "type": "string",
   "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
   "description": "Optional preferred acquisition date in YYYY-MM-DD format."
  },
  "mode": {
   "enum": [
    "true_color",
    "vegetation",
    "water",
    "thermal",
    "radar"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "true_color"
  },
  "orbit": {
   "enum": [
    "ASCENDING",
    "DESCENDING"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "ASCENDING",
   "description": "Sentinel-1 orbit direction for radar mode."
  },
  "radius_m": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 3000,
   "maximum": 50000,
   "minimum": 500
  },
  "max_cloud_cover": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 20,
   "maximum": 100,
   "minimum": 0,
   "description": "Optical modes only. Radar is cloud-independent."
  },
  "date_tolerance_days": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 10,
   "maximum": 60,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "mode": "true_color",
  "tool": "satellite-observe",
  "image": {
   "format": "png",
   "clean_url": "https://sat.ipintel.ai/results/satellite/example.png",
   "annotated_url": "https://sat.ipintel.ai/results/satellite/example_annotated.png"
  },
  "attribution": "Satellite imagery data",
  "selected_scene": {
   "date": "2026-07-10",
   "source": "Sentinel-2 L2A",
   "cloud_cover": 4.2
  },
  "fulfillment_status": "exact"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sat-ipintel-ai-satellite-observe-1a2a81fb/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from sat.ipintel.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/sat.ipintel.ai/llms.txt)