emerging · 1.3

Remote Sensing

Score 20.4 / 100 56 providers 5 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (56)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 22 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (5)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
48.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
26.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
17.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Earth Observation 31 co-occurrences Satellite Imagery 28 co-occurrences STAC 12 co-occurrences Geospatial 37 co-occurrences Tasking 9 co-occurrences Imagery 9 co-occurrences Defense and Intelligence 5 co-occurrences SAR 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag52
Api tag5

Cohort brief

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The 56 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Remote Sensing, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
56
all scored
Mean Kin Score
21.7
+1.0 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
10.7
+1.0 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
2.1–50.2
median 18.3 · σ 15.4
How the 56 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 0Developing 11Thin 13Emerging 10Minimal 22
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Discoverability 63.1 60.4 +2.7 56
Contract Quality 19.4 17.5 +1.9 56
Developer Ergonomics 19.2 17.9 +1.3 56
Operational Transparency 12.4 11.3 +1.1 56
Contract Governance 7 6.4 +0.6 56
Access Clarity 21.2 22.3 -1.1 56

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 7% 16% -9
MCP server (first-party) 4% 7% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 9% 0
Security 91% 88% +3
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 20% 13% +7

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Maxar Technologies 50.2
  2. 2 NASA FIRMS 49.3
  3. 3 Umbra 46.8
  4. 4 Google Earth Engine REST 45.7
  5. 5 NASA CMR 43.7
  6. 6 Sentinel Hub 41.7
  7. 7 Planet 40.6
  8. 8 USDA 40.6
  9. 9 Capella Space 40.4
  10. 10 Hydrosat 40.2
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Umbra 47.8
  2. 2 CarbonFarm 39.4
  3. 3 Agricultural Statistics Service 35.4
  4. 4 Arlula 32.3
  5. 5 Agromonitoring 30.6
  6. 6 NASA FIRMS 28.7
  7. 7 Maxar Technologies 28.1
  8. 8 Sentinel Hub 26.9
  9. 9 Google Earth Engine REST 24.8
  10. 10 Hydrosat 24.6
All 56 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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