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The BlackSky small satellite (SmallSat) constellation provides imagery from the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Their products include four image bands: red, green, blue, and panchromatic. These SmallSats are currently deployed in mid-inclination orbits between +/- 53.5 degrees North and South latitude. The high spatial resolution and high-revisit with dawn-to-dusk imagery from BlackSky can be used for a wide range of pattern-of-life and change detection research and applications.

The BlackSky data evaluation is now complete, and the data acquired during the evaluation are available via the SmallSat Data Explorer tool (SDX). The completed BlackSky Evaluation Report and the Quality Assessment Summary will be posted here when available for release.

Authorized Data Use and Users

All members of the U.S. Government have access to BlackSky data for scientific use. All data requests must be approved by NASA's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program.

End User License Agreement

USG EULA

Obtaining Data

  • To request access to CSDA-distributed data, complete the CSDA Authorization form. The CSDA team will verify if the user is authorized for data access. Once verified, the user will be notified
  • Search for BlackSky data using the CSDA SmallSat Data Explorer (SDX)
  • Download direct from the SDX (Earthdata Login required) or use the Bulk Download Tool

Copyright

Data products and derived products for imagery must contain the following copyright markings (YYYY is the year of the image acquisition):

  • For data products: “© BlackSky Inc YYYY. All rights reserved.”
  • For derived products: “Includes copyrighted material of BlackSky All rights reserved.”
  • A joint copyright notice may be used as appropriate

Authorized users should send CSDA a courtesy copy of any publications that include CSDA-distributed data.

CSDA Acknowledgment

To help CSDA identify your publications, we request that you include the following acknowledgment when publishing work created using these data:

"This work utilized data made available through the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program."