Terravek ORBIS
The analysis-ready Earth observation platform.
ORBIS ingests optical, SAR, LiDAR and in-situ data, corrects it to a common radiometric and geometric reference, and delivers analysis-ready products with a quality statement attached to every pixel.
ORBIS is the foundation everything else at Terravek sits on. It handles the unglamorous work between a raw downlink and a decision: orthorectification, atmospheric correction, co-registration across sensors and dates, and the propagation of measurement uncertainty through every step.
Where most platforms give you an image, ORBIS gives you an image plus an ISO 19157 quality report. If two scenes taken eight months apart cannot honestly be compared, ORBIS says so rather than producing a confident-looking change map.
ORBIS is available as ORBIS Cloud (managed, in eu-nl-1 and eu-de-1), ORBIS Enterprise (deployed in your own cloud tenancy) and ORBIS Core (on-premise, for customers with data-residency constraints that leave no alternative).
Capabilities
Multi-sensor fusion
Optical, SAR, LiDAR, hyperspectral and in-situ sources in one analysis-ready data model.
Traceable radiometry
Every product carries an uncertainty budget traceable to the Vollenhove Polder calibration range.
Sub-pixel co-registration
Automated tie-point matching holds multi-date stacks to better than 0.3 pixel RMSE.
Quality statements
ISO 19157-conformant data quality reports generated per delivery, not per project.
Open formats
Cloud-optimised GeoTIFF, STAC catalogues, GeoParquet. No proprietary container.
ATLAS API access
Every ORBIS capability is available through the ATLAS API and the published SDKs.
Editions
| Edition | Description |
|---|---|
| ORBIS Cloud | Managed service in eu-nl-1 (Amsterdam) or eu-de-1 (Frankfurt). Subscription, priced per AOI km² per month. |
| ORBIS Enterprise | Deployed into your own cloud tenancy. Annual licence plus support. |
| ORBIS Core | On-premise installation for data-residency constrained customers. Annual licence, minimum three years. |
Specifications
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Supported optical sensors | 42 platforms, including all Terravek partner constellations |
| Supported SAR sensors | 11 platforms, C- and X-band |
| Maximum AOI per task | 250,000 km² |
| Typical delivery latency | 90 minutes (Svalgrund downlink) to 6 hours (partner archive) |
| Coordinate reference systems | Any EPSG-registered CRS; ITRF2020 internal reference frame |
| Deployment regions | eu-nl-1 (Amsterdam), eu-de-1 (Frankfurt) |
| API | ATLAS REST v3, OpenAPI 3.1 specification published |
| Certifications in scope | ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, SOC 2 Type II |
Limitations
We state these on the product page rather than in a footnote during procurement. The sales cycle is eleven months and the truth surfaces anyway.
- Cloud cover above 60% in the acquisition window will delay optical delivery; ORBIS will not interpolate through cloud and present it as observation.
- Sub-metre products depend on partner tasking availability and are not guaranteed within the standard latency SLA.
- ORBIS Core does not receive feature releases between annual versions.
Customers using ORBIS
Zeeland Water Board
Storm-surge early warning for 340 km of coastal defence
Read case study →Rijnmond Port Authority
Prioritising €18M of annual dredging on trend, not schedule
Read case study →Front Range Electric Cooperative
Wildfire-season fuel load mapping across 9,100 km of line
Read case study →Provincie Zuid-Holland
Thirteen years of annual land-use and building change detection
Read case study →Baltic Forestry Group AS
Stand inventory and windthrow response across 260,000 hectares
Read case study →Alpenland Versicherung AG
Portfolio flood exposure and post-event damage assessment
Read case study →