nltIMAGERY
Imagery Advisory & Delivery
The right imagery for the job — chosen, tasked, delivered, processed, and integrated. NLT guides you across drone, aerial, and satellite sources so you get data that actually answers the question.
nltIMAGERY turns NLT’s imagery-partner network into a guided service: we help you select the right platform and sensor for your area of interest and use case — across drones, aerial platforms, and satellites, spanning optical and multispectral, and active sensing like lidar and SAR — then handle tasking, delivery, post-processing, integration, and exploitation so the imagery feeds directly into your decisions and your NLT products.
- Drone, aerial & satellite
- Right sensor for the use case
- Delivery & post-processing
- Integration & exploitation
How it works
From an area of interest to exploited imagery — NLT guides every step, and matches the source to the question you’re trying to answer.
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Define the area & use case
Start with your area of interest and what you need to detect, measure, or monitor — the use case drives every choice that follows.
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Select the right imagery
We recommend the platform and sensor for the job — drone, aerial, or satellite; optical, multispectral, or active (lidar, SAR/radar) — balancing resolution, revisit, coverage, and cost.
- 3
Task & acquire
Through NLT’s imagery-partner network, we task new collection or source existing archive imagery to fit your area, timing, and quality needs.
- 4
Deliver & post-process
We handle delivery and post-processing — orthorectification, mosaicking, calibration, co-registration, and change detection — so the data is analysis-ready.
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Integrate & exploit
We integrate the imagery into your GIS and workflows and exploit it inside your NLT products — mapping, monitoring, hazard, and location-intelligence use cases.
Product specs
Sources & sensing at a glance
What nltIMAGERY spans — so we can match the source to your use case.
Drones / UAS · crewed aerial platforms · satellites — matched to resolution, revisit, and coverage needs.
High-resolution optical and multispectral imagery for visual interpretation, indices, and classification.
Lidar for elevation and structure, and SAR/radar for all-weather, day-or-night, penetrating collection.
New tasking or archive sourcing through NLT’s imagery-partner network, scoped to your area, timing, and quality.
Orthorectification, mosaicking, calibration, co-registration, and change detection — delivered analysis-ready.
Delivered into your GIS and workflows and exploited inside NLT products (mapping, monitoring, hazard, location intelligence).
NLT’s geospatial and remote-sensing practitioners guide sensor selection and interpretation end to end.
Engagement models
Engage nltIMAGERY for guidance, for managed delivery, or for the full pipeline into your NLT products. Pricing is scoped to area, sensors, cadence, and processing — never one-size-fits-all.
Advisory
Choose the right imagery
Managed Delivery
Get analysis-ready imagery
Fully Exploited
Imagery inside your products
Advisory
Choose the right imagery
- Best for
- Deciding what to buy and how to collect it
- What NLT does
- Sensor/platform selection and tasking guidance
- You receive
- A recommendation and a sourcing plan
- Ongoing
- One-time or per-collection
Managed Delivery
Get analysis-ready imagery
- Best for
- Teams that want the imagery handled
- What NLT does
- Selection, tasking, delivery, and post-processing
- You receive
- Analysis-ready imagery in your formats
- Ongoing
- Per-collection or recurring
Fully Exploited
Imagery inside your products
- Best for
- Imagery that must drive decisions in NLT products
- What NLT does
- End-to-end: source → process → integrate → exploit
- You receive
- Findings inside your NLT product workflows
- Ongoing
- Ongoing monitoring & tasking
How you receive it
The imagery lands where it’s useful to you.
Inside your NLT products
Exploited directly in nltGIS.ai, nltLocationIntelligence, nltIMPACT, and other NLT product workflows.
Into your own GIS & tools
Delivered analysis-ready into your existing GIS, data stores, and pipelines.
As standalone deliverables
Orthomosaics, point clouds, and derived products delivered as files or services on request.
Practitioner-in-the-Middle
Results a human expert stands behind
You don’t just get AI results — you get results validated by NLT practitioners. AI-native output is checked against domain expertise and ground truth, corrected where needed, and delivered quality-assured.
A human-expert validation lifecycle you can call on for nltIMAGERY — and across every NLT product.
For imagery specifically, a remote-sensing practitioner validates that the chosen sensor and processing actually fit the use case before you commit to a collection.
AI-native system produces results
The product’s AI-native engine generates an initial answer, map, or analysis from your data.
NLT practitioner validates
A domain-expert NLT practitioner checks the result against ground truth and professional judgment.
Refine & correct
Findings are refined, reconciled with the source data, and corrected where the model needs a human hand.
Quality-assured, delivery-ready
You receive results a human expert stands behind — trustworthy and ready to act on.
Why customers use nltIMAGERY
The right data, the first time
Matching platform and sensor to the use case avoids paying for imagery that can’t answer the question.
One partner, not many
NLT navigates the imagery-partner network for you — one relationship instead of vetting vendors and tasking each yourself.
Analysis-ready, not raw
Post-processing and integration mean you get usable data in your workflow, not a pile of scenes to wrangle.
Straight into your decisions
Because NLT builds the products too, the imagery is exploited where the decision actually gets made.
Backed by NLT’s geospatial and remote-sensing practice and its imagery-partner network — the same team that builds the products the imagery feeds.
Ready to source the right imagery with nltIMAGERY?
Get a scoped quote, talk with our team, or book a consult. Public pricing is on the way — until then we scope it fast to your area of interest, sensors, cadence, and processing.