Online Basemaps
Discover Nimbo's GIS-ready satellite maps. Worldwide, cloud-free, updated every month. Create your Nimbo account to retrieve any month available.
CLEAR & UP TO DATE
The basemaps you need, worldwide, every month
There are a lot of basemaps available from different satellite imagery sources, but Nimbo’s stand out by combining three main strengths: they’re cloud-clear, updated every month and consistent all over the world. Game changer and time saver to prepare your GIS projects.
CLOUD REMOVAL
Basemaps without clouds or cloud shadows, thanks to Nimbo’s exclusive AI-driven image processing techniques applied to Sentinel imagery from the Copernicus programme.
RECENCY / FREQUENCY
Always get the most recent picture with basemaps updated every month, in 5 color layers: RGB (natural colors), Infrared, NDVI and LAI (vegetation indices), Radar.
HOMOGENEITY
Consistent color treatment and smart tile merge, providing the same quality of information all over the globe, and smooth operating ground for automatic model training.
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MULTISPECTRAL DATA ACCESS
The world in layers, GIS-ready
Nimbo leverages Sentinel’s passive and active sensors
to produce synthetic satellite views in five color layers worldwide, every month
RGB
Natural colors
Infrared
Near Infrared
Vegetation index (NDVI)
Vegetation health index
Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Vegetation density (Paid plan only)
Radar
Band-C VV-VH index
DEM
Digital Elevation Model
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DISCOVER NIMBO’S EXCLUSIVE ONLINE BASEMAPS FOR GIS, UPDATED EVERY MONTH
Nimbo’s online basemaps rely on exclusive deep-learning processes to ensure that clouds are removed, producing satellite maps where every patch of land is unveiled. The result: seamless world maps with vivid colors, another of Nimbo’s trademarks. Explore our stack of 200+ monthly satellite maps since October 2019 in several data layers: natural colors, infrared, NDVI (vegetation health), LAI and Radar.
More info on Nimbo basemaps: RGB, Infrared, NDVI, LAI, Radar
RGB basemaps
Clear, homogenous satellite maps of the world in natural colors. The challenge taken up by our solution is the production of 8-bit basemaps rendering vibrant and consistent images across the entire globe and in all types of landscape contexts. Thanks to Nimbo’s unique image processing techniques applied to Sentinel imagery, get easy access to color-consistent views of any place on Earth, every month. The go-to ressource to facilitate Earth imagery processing up to a continental or global scale. Learn more
Infrared basemaps
Basemaps displaying the world’s whole landmass in false color, as reflected by non-visible wavelengths in the spectrum (near-infrared). These maps based on how objects absorb the Sun’s near-infrared radiation are particularly useful to observe vegetation health, soil composition or bodies of water. Learn more
NDVI basemaps
World basemaps colored in a green gradient representing NDVI value (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index). NDVI is a common indicator based on red and infrared wavelengths, quantifying chlorophyll used to assess vegetation health.. Learn more
LAI basemaps
A colorized map of the world displaying the intensity of LAI, or Leaf Area Index. This indicator based of foliage density is more robust than NDVI as it combines optical data with deep-learning techniques to avoid saturation effects in dense vegetation environments. Learn more
Radar basemaps
A satellite map translating Sentinel-1’s synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data into viewable format through a distinctive color gradient. Radar data proves particularly helpful for a number of monitoring applications, ranging from land subsidence and structural damage assessment to deforestation, crop conditions, soil properties or drought. Learn more
NIMBO BASEMAPS FULL SPECIFICATIONS
| Description | Monthly composites based on Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI), using 13 bands: 4 visible bands, 6 Near-Infrared bands, and 3 Short-Wave Infrared bands except radar : Monthly synthesis of Sentinel-1 “Radex” product (composite of VH, VV, HH, HV data) |
| Temporal Resolution | Monthly |
| Number of used bands | RGB :3 / Infrared : 3 / NDVI : 2 / LAI : 8 / Radar : 1 |
| Additional bands | – |
| Spatial Resolution | 10 m |
| Bits depth | 8 bits |
| Measurement | Bottom Of Atmosphere (BOA) |
| Coordinate Reference System | UTM/WGS84 |
| Tile size | 110 x 110 km |
| Coverage | World |
| Format | TIFF |
| API availability | Yes |
GIS Software compatibility
Nimbo’s basemaps are designed for smooth integration in GIS platforms. Use our exclusive QGIS plugin to connect and upload any Nimbo basemap into your software.
ABOUT NIMBO’S GIS COMPATIBILITY
Thanks to our WMTS tile service, load any of Nimbo satellite basemap since October 2019 into your preferred GIS tool. All you need is the API token available from your Nimbo account. And with our dedicated QGIS plugin, we’ve got it all covered.
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