DESA turns raw high resolution satellite Earth observation data into actionable ready to use data.
Leverage Data Cube and Analysis Ready Data (ARD) technology to provide minimal effort access to SANSA’s 30-year archive of SPOT high-resolution Earth observation data.
DESA allows governments, scientists, businesses and citizens to efficiently produce and use Earth observations to provide insights for society’s most pressing challenges.
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Analysis Ready Data

SPOT Analysis-Ready Data (ARD) enables users to analyze and extract information from the satellite dataset, alleviating the burden associated with data pre-processing.

Decision Support tools

We provide user interfaces, co-designed with our stakeholders, that are easily understood and can be manipulated by a wide variety of end-users to obtain rapid analytics and insights across applications.

Value added products

Get access to our value-added products for built infrastructure such as human settlements and road and rail networks based on high-resolution commercial Analysis-ready-data from SPOT satellites.

DESA Platforms

DE South Africa Maps

A feature-rich, web-based geospatial data explorer

DE South Africa Analysis Platform

A Python-based environment providing technical users access and analysis tools to explore and conduct research

Open Web Services

Provides a standards-based interface to the metadata and datasets of DESA

Data Cube Explorer

Web-based exploration of Open Data Cube collections – GitHub

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