# SkyWatch

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/skywatch/  
**Website:** https://skywatch.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

SkyWatch Space Applications is an Earth observation company whose EarthCache platform gives developers a single API to discover, price, order, and deliver commercial satellite imagery and geospatial data from many providers - Pleiades, SPOT, PlanetScope, SkySat, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, TripleSat, Kompsat, and more. The EarthCache API (base https://api.skywatch.co/earthcache, x-api-key auth) exposes Archive Search over historical imagery, Pipelines that monitor an area of interest and deliver imagery on a schedule, interval results with analytics and metadata download URLs, cost estimation, reusable output configurations (format, bands, mosaicking), saved locations, and callback-based subscriptions for platform events. Imagery is billed per square kilometre with resolution-based minimums.

## Kin Score — 35.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **SkyWatch Archive Search API** — Query historical imagery and retrieve matching search results.
- **SkyWatch Cost Estimation API** — Estimate the cost of locations, intervals, and pipelines.
- **SkyWatch Interval Results API** — Results and delivery URLs produced by pipeline intervals.
- **SkyWatch Locations API** — Reusable server-side areas of interest from KML or GeoJSON.
- **SkyWatch Outputs API** — Reusable output configurations - format, bands, and mosaicking.
- **SkyWatch Pipelines API** — Standing orders that monitor an AOI and deliver imagery on a schedule.
- **SkyWatch Subscriptions API** — Callback-based subscriptions to EarthCache platform events.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Skywatch Agentic Access** — 26 operations · 14 acting

## Security (2)

- **Skywatch Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Skywatch Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Skywatch Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, EarthCache, Imagery

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/skywatch/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.