Satellite Map Explorer

September 30, 2026

Fly around our S2 basemap: a cloudless 10 m mosaic from 2026 Q2 imagery, in true colour, colour infrared and NDVI, draped over elevation (5 m across much of Australia, 30 m worldwide) in 3D. Near real-time geostationary imagery, about 15 minutes behind, can sit on top. Pick a place on the left, or move around yourself.

Add it to your apps and GIS

With Bushfire.io Enterprise, every layer on this map is yours to use, including on public websites and in public apps with attribution:

• XYZ tiles for your own web and mobile maps, exactly as served here.
• WMTS and WMS for ArcGIS and QGIS, with self-service access keys. See How do I connect Bushfire.io to ArcGIS and QGIS?
• Elevation as Terrarium XYZ tiles for 3D maps.
• Four-band archives (red, green, blue and near-infrared) for your region (or globe) each quarter, on request.

Talk to us about using it in your workflows, or sign up today.

How it works

• Current, not years old. We rebuild the basemap every quarter, and the previous quarter fills any gaps. Aerial patchworks are often captured years apart; this is months old and consistent from one region to the next.
• One archive, three views. We store surface reflectance in four bands, not finished images. We render true colour, colour infrared and NDVI from the same data on each request, so we can tune brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation.
• Built and served in-house. Our own pipeline reprojects the imagery onto the web map grid, and Tiley, the tile server behind Bushfire.io, serves it alongside our fire, warning and satellite layers.
• Real terrain. Elevation comes from 5 m LiDAR across much of Australia and a 30 m global model elsewhere, so ranges, gorges and craters clearly show in 3D.
• Live on top. The near real-time layers are a global mosaic from Himawari-9, GOES-East, GOES-West and Meteosat, updated about every 10 minutes at roughly 500 m per pixel. See How to use satellite imagery for what each product shows.