Hydrosat

Hydrosat delivers thermal infrared satellite data and analytics for monitoring resources and detecting change, combining thermal-infrared imaging, proprietary algorithms, and field-tested expertise to support food security, water security, and industrial monitoring across 60+ countries. Its Discovery platform exposes a STAC-compliant (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog) API at stac.hydrosat.com serving VZ-1 (Van Zyl-01) thermal and VNIR imagery at processing levels L1A, L1B, and L2, accessible via the Discovery Portal web app, direct download, or the OAuth2-protected STAC API. Products include the IrriWatch irrigation-planning tool and water/crop management solutions.

Hydrosat publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Collections API, Items API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Satellite Imagery, Thermal Infrared, Geospatial, and Earth Observation.

The Hydrosat catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hydrosat’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, changelog, support, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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39.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 83/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Company Satellite ImageryThermal InfraredGeospatial Earth Observation Remote Sensing STAC Agriculture Water Management Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 39.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 23.7 — up to +15.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 44.0 — up to +14.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 47.0 — up to +10.6 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agriculture and Food (Farm Data, Nutrition)	undeclared	-	-	-
Space and Satellite (operators, earth observation, ground segment)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

STAC

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Hydrosat Catalog API

The Catalog API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for catalog.

Hydrosat Collections API

The Collections API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for collections.

Hydrosat Items API

The Items API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for items.

Hydrosat Queryables API

The Queryables API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for queryables.

Hydrosat Search API

The Search API from Hydrosat — 1 operation(s) for search.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Hydrosat STAC Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hydrosat STAC Catalog Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hydrosat STAC Catalog Items API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hydrosat STAC Catalog Queryables API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hydrosat STAC Catalog Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Search Hydrosat STAC imagery

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Hydrosat API Rules

41 rules · 34 errors 6 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Hydrosat Stac Overlay

3 actions · documentation · hydrosat-stac-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hydrosat Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Hydrosat Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hydrosat
name: Hydrosat
description: Hydrosat delivers thermal infrared satellite data and analytics for monitoring resources and detecting change,
  combining thermal-infrared imaging, proprietary algorithms, and field-tested expertise to support food security, water security,
  and industrial monitoring across 60+ countries. Its Discovery platform exposes a STAC-compliant (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog)
  API at stac.hydrosat.com serving VZ-1 (Van Zyl-01) thermal and VNIR imagery at processing levels L1A, L1B, and L2, accessible
  via the Discovery Portal web app, direct download, or the OAuth2-protected STAC API. Products include the IrriWatch irrigation-planning
  tool and water/crop management solutions.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hydrosat/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://hydrosat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Field-Irrigation-Planning-2.png
tags:
- Company
- Satellite Imagery
- Thermal Infrared
- Geospatial
- Earth Observation
- Remote Sensing
- STAC
- Agriculture
- Water Management
- Data
apis:
- aid: hydrosat:hydrosat-catalog-api
  name: Hydrosat Catalog API
  description: The Catalog API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for catalog.
  humanURL: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-reference-and-specification
  baseURL: https://stac.hydrosat.com
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydrosat-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hydrosat-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hydrosat-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hydrosat-conformance.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hydrosat-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hydrosat-data-model.yml
- aid: hydrosat:hydrosat-collections-api
  name: Hydrosat Collections API
  description: The Collections API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-reference-and-specification
  baseURL: https://stac.hydrosat.com
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydrosat-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hydrosat-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hydrosat-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hydrosat-conformance.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hydrosat-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hydrosat-data-model.yml
- aid: hydrosat:hydrosat-items-api
  name: Hydrosat Items API
  description: The Items API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for items.
  humanURL: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-reference-and-specification
  baseURL: https://stac.hydrosat.com
  tags:
  - Item
  tags_raw:
  - Items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydrosat-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hydrosat-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hydrosat-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hydrosat-conformance.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hydrosat-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hydrosat-data-model.yml
- aid: hydrosat:hydrosat-queryables-api
  name: Hydrosat Queryables API
  description: The Queryables API from Hydrosat — 2 operation(s) for queryables.
  humanURL: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-reference-and-specification
  baseURL: https://stac.hydrosat.com
  tags:
  - Queryables
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydrosat-queryables-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hydrosat-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hydrosat-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hydrosat-conformance.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hydrosat-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hydrosat-data-model.yml
- aid: hydrosat:hydrosat-search-api
  name: Hydrosat Search API
  description: The Search API from Hydrosat — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-reference-and-specification
  baseURL: https://stac.hydrosat.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hydrosat-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hydrosat-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hydrosat-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/hydrosat-conformance.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hydrosat-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hydrosat-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/hydrosat-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/hydrosat-stac-overlay.yaml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://discover.hydrosat.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-reference-and-specification
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://satdocs.hydrosat.com/stac-api-how-to-guides
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hydrosat-authentication.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hydrosat-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hydrosat-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hydrosat.com/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/hydrosat-changelog.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://hydrosat.com/contact/
- type: Blog
  url: https://hydrosat.com/stories-blogs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Hydrosat
- type: SignUp
  url: https://discover.hydrosat.com/login
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hydrosat.com/privacy-policy/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hydrosat-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hydrosat.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Hydrosat API — frequently asked questions

Does Hydrosat have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Hydrosat, including Hydrosat Catalog API, Hydrosat Collections API and Hydrosat Items API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Hydrosat API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Hydrosat, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Hydrosat API?

Hydrosat uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Hydrosat Authentication.

Is the Hydrosat API ready for AI agents?

Hydrosat has a Kin Score of 39.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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