Ocean Basemaps:
Comprehensive, High-Frequency Mosaics for Analysis
Power your applications and analytics with seamless basemaps built from the most recent satellite imagery from around the world.
WHAT IT IS
Ocean Basemaps: Current, Complete, Analysis-Ready Mosaics
Ocean Basemaps leverage cutting-edge software together with daily global satellite imagery to create visually consistent and scientifically accurate mosaics. Gain insights over broad areas and diverse geographies, and empower time series analysis and data analytics with Ocean’s Global and Select Basemaps.
Ocean’s range of basemap solutions ensure that your application needs are met. Ocean Select Basemaps are customizable with options for visual or multispectral content and frequency of delivery. Ocean’s Global Basemap spans the Earth’s entire landmass and is generated once each year from data collected daily.
Visual Basemaps
Surface Reflectance Basemaps
Global Basemaps
Select Basemaps
Actionable Insights at the Highest Frequency, Tailored to You
With Ocean Select Basemaps, customers have access to accurate, up-to-date, and seamless geospatial data captured by the world’s largest fleet of satellites.
Select Area
Define your coverage area
Select Imagery Type
Choose either Visual or Surface Reflectance
Select Updates
Choose between quarterly, monthly, biweekly or weekly
Select Delivery Type
Choose between web streaming or download
Ocean Select Basemaps comprises two offerings—Visual Basemaps and Surface Reflectance Basemaps—that are generated in line with customer needs to provide fresh, actionable insights over broad areas. Unlike other image mosaics, Ocean Select Basemaps let the customer determine the AOI, frequency of updates, and the delivery.
Select Visual Basemaps
Monitor evolving landscapes and infrastructure over time and derive insights from advanced analytics over large regions. Select Basemaps give you the power to define what you need, where you need it, and how often – without sacrificing coverage or quality.
- Seasonally color-balanced, seamless, cloud-free
- Spatially accurate data with minimized haze, light, and topographic effects
- Suited for computer vision analytics
Select Surface Reflectance Basemaps
This product leverages advanced image processing techniques on OceanScope imagery to remove atmospheric effects, optimize pixel accuracy, and empower deep spectral and quantitative analysis.
- Optimized for pixel accuracy to inform robust quantitative analysis
- Minimized effects of atmosphere and sensor characteristics to reflect ground truth
- Suited for a variety of vegetation indices, including NDVI, EVL, NDWI, and more
Ocean Basemaps and GIS: Flexible Delivery, Efficient Integration
Use Ocean Basemaps within your preferred GIS environment. Access Basemaps efficiently online in a variety of formats.
- Ready to use with popular GIS applications, including ArcGIS and QGIS
- Web streaming via XYZ and WMTS services
Get the new add-in for easy, rapid integration into Esri ArcGIS Pro.
Timely, Global Context for Mapping and Visualization
GLOBAL BASEMAP
Ocean integrates 1.5+ million scenes daily to produce an annual Global Basemap that is seamless and visually appealing. Comprehensive and cloud-free, the high-accuracy and high-resolution Global Basemap covers the Earth’s entire landmass and is ideal for mapping, updating charts, and visualization.
How It Can Help
Power Your Analytics and Applications with
Basemaps Built from Daily, Global Imagery
Unlike traditional mosaics, Ocean allows you to build basemaps using the most recent satellite imagery over your areas of interest, with updates at the frequency you need. Use Ocean Basemaps to inform applications and analytics, build situational awareness, derive insights across large regions, and monitor change across time.
Refresh Outdated Data
Update charts and maps with current global imagery
Customize Your Solutions
Ocean Basemaps are available off-the-shelf or custom built
Comprehensive, Global Coverage
Access areas that are difficult to image due to consistent cloud cover or remote location
Receive Analysis-Ready Data
Mosaics are pre-processed into gridded GeoTIFFS for download
Simple Data Integration
Data is available for integration into workflow via WMTS or webtiles
Ocean selects the best pixels from its high cadence satellite feed and transforms them into spatially accurate mosaics, providing a precise picture of the world’s entire landmass.
Turn Geospatial Data into Insights
With Ocean Basemaps
Basemaps automate a set of imagery preprocessing steps to ensure that you get the most from Ocean’s global, high-frequency satellite imagery. Looking for something not listed here? Ocean can work with you to find the right solution for your application.
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“Navigating Oceans, Shaping Futures”