XRTech Group vs EOSDA LandViewer, in short: EOSDA LandViewer is a browser platform for viewing and analysing free satellite images such as Sentinel and Landsat, with high-resolution imagery bought separately per satellite. XRTech Group is a satellite imagery provider and online portal for buying high-resolution archive images, new tasking, stereo and elevation products, priced per resolution tier. Both sell imagery from many of the same satellites, including SuperView, Beijing-3, Gaofen and TripleSat, so the real differences are the price per satellite, minimum areas, published add-ons, radar and hyperspectral access, and what you receive after purchase. Pick EOSDA LandViewer to analyse free data yourself; pick XRTech Group to buy sharp, current satellite images with transparent pricing and processing included.
This comparison uses each company's published price list, the satellites each one sells, the features visible in each platform, and screenshots of the EOSDA LandViewer interface and the XRTech Group portal at buysatelliteimages.com.
XRTech Group vs EOSDA LandViewer at a Glance
Feature
XRTech Group
EOSDA LandViewer
What it is
Satellite imagery provider with an online ordering portal and an in-house processing team
Browser-based satellite imagery platform from EOS Data Analytics
Pricing model
One price per resolution tier, with cloud, angle, band and stereo options priced in advance
One price per satellite; BlackSky priced per scene
Sharpest imagery
25 cm (SuperView Neo-1 03/04)
30 cm (Beijing-3B, SuperView NEO-1)
Radar and hyperspectral
High-resolution SAR and hyperspectral satellites sold directly
Free Sentinel-1 radar; other SAR and hyperspectral through EOSDA sales
Account needed to search
No
Yes, a LandViewer account
Analytics
Delivered as processed products: DEM, orthophoto, 3D models, change maps
Self-service tools: 20+ indices, change detection, time series
Free option
Free sample image before you order
Free Starter plan for medium-resolution images
Best for
Engineering, mapping, government, energy, mining, real estate and insurance teams
Agronomists, researchers and analysts working with free data
What Is EOSDA LandViewer?
EOSDA LandViewer is the online satellite imagery platform of EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA). It lets you search and view free satellite images from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat, CBERS and MODIS, apply more than 20 ready-made indices such as NDVI, and run change detection and time-series analysis without desktop GIS software.
LandViewer scene search over Dubai: free Sentinel-2 scenes listed by date and cloud cover.
Access is tiered. The free Starter plan allows up to 5 images a month, Explorer allows 15 a month with change detection and a one-year time series, and Pro gives unlimited access to medium- and low-resolution imagery. High-resolution satellite images are not included in any LandViewer plan. They are bought separately from partner satellites, and EOSDA has added on-demand satellite tasking and new archive providers such as BlackSky, SpaceWill and Improsat to LandViewer.
LandViewer band combinations: NDVI, SAVI, ARVI, EVI and other indices run in the browser.
What Is XRTech Group?
XRTech Group is a Dubai-based satellite imagery provider. It sells archive satellite images and new tasking from a constellation of more than 130 optical, radar (SAR), stereo and hyperspectral satellites, and its team processes the data into map-ready products such as orthophotos, digital elevation models and 3D city models. Its archives go back more than 25 years.
You order through the XRTech Group satellite imagery portal at buysatelliteimages.com. Draw or upload your area, choose archive, new tasking, priority, emergency, stereo or specialist data, and the portal checks the archives and shows an indicative price in seconds. Nothing is ordered until you confirm.
The XRTech Group portal: draw an area, pick a capture mode (archive, new capture, priority, emergency, stereo and DEM, or specialist data) and filter by resolution.
Satellites Compared: Which Satellites Each Platform Sells
Twelve high-resolution satellites appear on both price lists, so many orders come from the same sensor whichever company you buy from. The differences are at the edges: XRTech Group adds the newest SuperView Neo-1 satellites, high-resolution radar, hyperspectral and geostationary satellites, while EOSDA adds BlackSky, KOMPSAT, Satellogic, GEOSAT and Göktürk. See the full XRTech Group satellite list.
Satellite
Resolution
XRTech Group
EOSDA LandViewer
SuperView Neo-1 (03/04)
25 cm
Archive and tasking
Not listed
SuperView Neo-1
30 cm
Archive and tasking
Archive and tasking
Beijing-3B (BJ3N)
30 cm
Archive and tasking
Archive and tasking
BlackSky Gen-3
35 cm
Not listed
Archive and tasking, per scene
KOMPSAT-3A, KOMPSAT-3
40 cm, 50 cm
Not listed
Archive and tasking
SuperView-2
42 cm
Archive and tasking
Archive and tasking
SuperView-1, SuperView Neo-3, Beijing-3A
50 cm
Archive and tasking; stereo on SuperView-1 and Beijing-3A
Archive and tasking
Göktürk-1
50 cm
Not listed
Archive and tasking
GF-7, GF-2, TripleSat
65 to 80 cm
Archive and tasking, GF-7 stereo
Archive only
Satellogic ÑuSat, GEOSAT-2, KOMPSAT-2, BlackSky Gen-2
70 cm to 1.3 m
Not listed
Archive and tasking (KOMPSAT-2 archive only)
GF-1 B/C/D, GF-6, ZY-3
2 to 2.1 m
Archive and tasking, ZY-3 stereo
Archive only
GF-3 (C-band), LT-1 (L-band) radar
1 m, 3 m
Archive and tasking
Not listed
GF-5B, ZY-1 02D hyperspectral
30 m
Archive and tasking
Not listed
GF-4 geostationary
50 m
Archive and tasking
Not listed
Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat
5 to 30 m
Free archives
Free in the browser, by subscription tier
Satellite Imagery Pricing: Where XRTech Group Leads
XRTech Group uses clear, tier-based pricing, so every satellite in a resolution tier is priced the same way and you know the cost before you order. The tables below compare satellites sold by both companies and show where XRTech Group delivers more: stronger value, smaller minimum areas and tasking options EOSDA does not offer. All figures are published list prices in US dollars per km², before volume discounts.
Archive satellite image prices per km²
Satellite
XRTech Group
EOSDA LandViewer
Minimum area (XRTech / EOSDA)
SuperView-2, 42 cm
$13 to $14
$18
25 / 25 km²
SuperView-1, 50 cm
$13 to $14
$14
25 / 25 km²
SuperView Neo-3, 50 cm
$13 to $14
$14
25 / 25 km²
GF-7, 65 cm
$5
$10
25 / 25 km²
GF-2, 80 cm
$5
$4.50
25 / 25 km²
GF-1, GF-6, ZY-3, 2 m
$1
$1.70 (GF-1, GF-6), $2.10 (ZY-3)
25 / 500 km²
New tasking prices per km² (standard / priority / emergency)
Satellite
XRTech Group
EOSDA LandViewer
Minimum area (XRTech / EOSDA)
SuperView Neo-1, 30 cm
$30 / $45 / $80
$25 / $50 / $88
100 / 100 km²
SuperView-2, 42 cm
$20 to $22 / $37 / $66
$20 / $46 / $84
100 / 100 km²
SuperView-1 and SuperView Neo-3, 50 cm
$20 to $22 / $37 / $66
$19 / $45 / $85
100 / 100 km²
GF-7, GF-2, TripleSat, 65 to 80 cm
$8 to $10 standard
Tasking not offered
100 km² / none
GF-1, GF-6, ZY-3, 2 m
$2 standard
Tasking not offered
100 km² / none
Add-ons, Technical Uplifts, Analytics and Mineral Exploration
XRTech Group publishes every technical uplift in advance, from cloud and viewing-angle limits to extra bands and stereo, and goes far beyond imagery with mineral exploration, analytics and GIS-ready deliverables built for decision making. EOSDA's public price list covers none of these, and its analytics focus mainly on agriculture.
Option
XRTech Group
EOSDA LandViewer
Cloud cover limit
≤10%: +$8/km²; ≤5%: +$15/km²
Not in the public price list
Off-nadir angle limit
≤15°: +$3/km²; ≤10°: +$9/km²
Not in the public price list
8-band multispectral (50 cm)
+10%
Not in the public price list
Stereo / tri-stereo
2× / 3× the mono price
Not in the public price list
Large areas
Volume pricing from 250 km² with mosaicking included; custom enterprise pricing from 2,500 km²
Not in the public price list
Archive delivery speed
Within 48 hours, with no ordering bottleneck
Usually 2 to 3 days after the order
Mineral exploration (gold, copper, lithium)
Khaza'in targeting from $20/km², down to $12/km² above 2,000 km²
Not offered
Analytics and GIS-ready products
DEM, orthophoto, 3D models, change maps and InSAR, delivered as GeoTIFF, SHP, DWG or 3D formats in your projection
Self-service indices, with analytics focused on agriculture
Why XRTech Group delivers more value than EOSDA
XRTech Group leads on:
- Speed: archive imagery delivered within 48 hours with no ordering bottleneck, and tasking built for speed, with up to 25 revisits a day, satellite commands uploaded within 3 hours and a 1.5-hour response.
- Premium archive at better value: SuperView-2 archive at about a quarter below EOSDA, and GF-7 stereo-capable archive at half EOSDA's rate.
- SuperView-1 and Neo-3 archive at the same or better rate, backed by in-house processing.
- Flexible project sizes: TripleSat and 2 m imagery from just 25 km², where EOSDA requires 500 km² at 2 m.
- Faster, stronger rush tasking: priority and emergency capture on every SuperView satellite at 30 cm, 42 cm and 50 cm, at better rates than EOSDA.
- Wider tasking coverage: fresh captures at 65 cm to 2 m, which EOSDA does not offer on these satellites.
- Beyond agriculture: mineral exploration for gold, copper and lithium, plus DEMs, orthophotos, 3D models and InSAR, delivered GIS-ready for decision making. EOSDA's analytics focus mainly on farming.
- Full cost upfront: cloud, angle, band and stereo uplifts are published in advance, so there are no surprises.
Worked example, 100 km² of SuperView-2 imagery: archive costs $1,300 to $1,400 at XRTech Group and $1,800 at EOSDA. A priority capture costs $3,700 against $4,600, and an emergency capture $6,600 against $8,400.
A real search in the XRTech Group portal: 16 km² at 0.5 m, 100% coverage and 0% cloud, with an indicative total of $241 including mosaicking, shown before anything is ordered.
The portal shows the indicative total for your exact area and the team confirms the final quote before you pay. See the full satellite imagery pricing page.
New Tasking: Ordering a Fresh Satellite Image
New tasking means asking a satellite to capture your area on a future pass, instead of buying an image that already sits in an archive. Both XRTech Group and EOSDA offer it, but the ordering experience and the speed behind it differ.
In EOSDA LandViewer, you draw an area of interest, choose a partner satellite and pick standard, priority or emergency tasking. Most tasking is priced per km²; BlackSky is priced per scene.
LandViewer's high-resolution search panel with an area of interest drawn over a city centre.
In the XRTech Group portal, tasking sits in the same form as the archive search. If the archives have nothing suitable, the portal offers new tasking with an estimated collection window and an indicative price. You can choose standard tasking, priority (a faster collection window) or emergency tasking (time-critical, from a 36-hour lead time), as well as stereo and DEM captures.
Behind the portal, XRTech Group works in partnership with China Siwei Surveying and Mapping Technology, operator of the 28-satellite SuperView Neo commercial system (16 very high-resolution optical, 4 wide-swath optical and 8 radar satellites). XRTech reports revisits of up to 25 times a day over a target, satellite commands uploaded within 3 hours through more than 10 ground stations, a 1.5-hour response and 1-hour cloud delivery once an image is captured. During the Derna, Libya floods, it delivered damage imagery in under 24 hours.
Archive or new tasking: which do you need?
- Choose archive imagery when any recent clear image works: base maps, site planning, due diligence and historical change. It is cheaper and ready to deliver.
- Choose new tasking when you need imagery captured after a set date, at a specific angle, or as repeat captures for monitoring.
- Choose priority or emergency tasking for disasters, insurance claims, security and time-bound construction checks.
Archive Satellite Images: Search, Processing and Delivery
EOSDA LandViewer is strongest for free archives. Its catalogue holds years of Landsat, Sentinel, CBERS and MODIS scenes that you can filter by date, cloud cover and sun angle, view in the browser and track over time: Sentinel-2 revisits every 5 days and Landsat 8 and 9 together every 8 days. LandViewer renders and cloud-masks scenes on the fly.
LandViewer sensor filters: Sentinel-2, Landsat and CBERS archives in one search.
The XRTech Group portal searches the commercial high-resolution archives of its satellite partners in one go. Each search returns a recommended imagery set: how much of your area is covered, average cloud cover, resolution, capture date, quick-look previews and an indicative price. If one image does not cover your whole area, the portal combines scenes and adds mosaicking to the quote, so you request one set instead of picking individual frames.
Medium-resolution imagery like this is what LandViewer subscriptions include. Fields are visible, individual buildings and vehicles are not.
XRTech Group also prepares the data before delivery. It supplies Level 1B mono and stereo, Level 2A and 2D, Level 1 and 2 SAR and surface reflectance products, with atmospheric correction, radiometric balancing, cloud, haze and shadow masking, terrain illumination correction, pan-sharpening and seamless mosaicking done in-house on the Siwei Earth Cloud Engine, which processes up to 50 TB of data a day from a 60 PB archive.
For historical change at 10 to 30 m, LandViewer's free archives are hard to beat. For sub-metre archive images that must line up with survey or CAD data, XRTech Group's processed deliveries save the clean-up work.
Live Satellite Imagery: Is Either Platform Live?
No commercial satellite imagery platform streams live video of any place on demand. EOSDA explains in its own FAQ that "live" in LandViewer means minimal delay, usually minutes to hours after a free satellite captures a scene, and that its near real-time high-resolution imagery is delivered 24 to 48 hours after acquisition.
The closest thing to live that XRTech Group offers is the geostationary GF-4 satellite, which stares at the same region and refreshes every 20 seconds, with a visible and near-infrared camera plus a 400 m mid-wave infrared band for fires. For fresh detail at high resolution, emergency tasking (above) is the route. Read more in our guides to live satellite tracking and live satellite images of your house.
SuperView Neo-1 image of the Las Vegas Strip from XRTech Group: individual cars, pools and road markings are visible.
Analytics Tools vs Ready-to-Use Data Products
This is where the two platforms differ most. EOSDA LandViewer puts analysis tools in your browser: indices, band combinations, change detection, clustering, time-lapse animations and 3D terrain viewing. Its separate Crop Monitoring platform adds field boundary detection, vegetation indices such as NDVI, NDRE and EVI, weather risk and yield prediction for farms.
LandViewer change detection: burn severity classes mapped after a forest fire.
3D terrain view in LandViewer, useful for visual terrain checks.
XRTech Group delivers the analysis as finished data products, made by its processing team from the imagery you buy:
- Digital elevation models (DEM, DSM, DTM) at 2 to 10 m spacing with ±3 m vertical RMSE
- Digital orthophoto maps at 50 cm with 8 m CE90 positional accuracy
- 3D building models and digital twins, built from stereo pairs by AI contour extraction, edge regularisation and height correction
- InSAR ground and structure movement monitoring to 1 to 2 mm, used on dams such as the Aswan Dam, bridges, highways and pipelines
- Agriculture models: XRTech Group reports crop classification above 90% accuracy and yield forecasts up to 85% accurate at county level
If you have GIS staff and want to explore free data yourself, LandViewer's tools are excellent. If you need a deliverable that engineers, surveyors or underwriters can load straight into their software, XRTech Group's processed products save the in-house work.
Radar (SAR) and Hyperspectral Data
Radar sees through cloud, smoke and darkness, and hyperspectral sensors identify materials by their spectral fingerprint. In LandViewer, free Sentinel-1 radar is built in, while high-resolution SAR and hyperspectral data are handled through EOSDA's sales team.
XRTech Group sells both directly. GF-3 provides C-band radar in Spotlight mode for disaster and terrain mapping, and LT-1 provides L-band interferometric radar that penetrates vegetation and powers the deformation monitoring above. For minerals, GF-5B records 330 spectral channels from 400 to 2,500 nm, and ZY-1 02D pairs a hyperspectral camera with a sharp panchromatic one.
XRTech's Khaza'in engine turns that data into gold, copper and lithium targets by matching alteration minerals with real sample signatures. Khaza'in is priced by area: $20/km² under 100 km², $17 for 100 to 500 km², $15 for 500 to 2,000 km² and $12 above 2,000 km². See also SAR satellite imagery and stereo satellite images.
Sample Satellite Images from XRTech Group
XRTech Group offers a free sample image before you order, so you can check the detail for your use case first. These samples come from its archive:
Left to right, top to bottom: Nigeria radar, Nigeria 30 cm, Nigeria 40 cm, Riyadh 50 cm, China 2 m, China 80 cm, Abu Dhabi 15 cm HD, Las Vegas airport 30 cm, Doha 30 cm and the Fountain of Wealth in Singapore at 30 cm.
Which Should You Choose: XRTech Group or EOSDA LandViewer?
Choose EOSDA LandViewer if:
- Most of your work runs on free medium-resolution imagery.
- You want to run indices, change detection and time series yourself in a browser.
- You specifically need BlackSky, KOMPSAT, Satellogic or Göktürk imagery.
- You monitor fields and want EOSDA's Crop Monitoring tools.
LandViewer is built for exploring and sharing free imagery: here, a scene search with the share map menu open.
Choose XRTech Group if:
- You need the sharpest commercial detail available.
- You need radar, hyperspectral or geostationary data from one supplier.
- You want finished DEMs, orthophotos, 3D building models or deformation reports rather than raw scenes.
- You want the full cost, including cloud, angle and stereo options, before you order.
- You buy for a whole project team and need one licence that covers everyone.
- You want specialists to choose the satellite, plan the tasking and deliver in your projection and format.
Many teams use both: LandViewer to watch free data, and XRTech Group when they need to buy high-resolution satellite imagery or new tasking for a specific site.
How to Buy Satellite Images Online from XRTech Group
Buying satellite images online from XRTech Group takes five steps:
- Open the portal at buysatelliteimages.com.
- Set your area: draw a rectangle or polygon, upload a boundary file, or enter a centre point and size.
- Choose what you need: archive, new tasking, priority, emergency, stereo and DEM, or specialist radar and hyperspectral data, plus resolution, dates and maximum cloud cover.
- Review the result: coverage, cloud, capture date, previews and an indicative price, or a tasking estimate if the archive has no match.
- Request the set: the team confirms the final quote by email, usually within one business day, then delivers by secure cloud link or hard drive.
Not sure which resolution fits? Choose "Specialist / advice" in the portal and an analyst will recommend the satellite, resolution and capture mode for your project.
Compare a Real Price for Your Area
Draw your site in the XRTech Group portal to see archive satellite images and an instant price, or send us your area for a free quote on new tasking, stereo, radar or DEM products.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is EOS LandViewer the same as EOSDA LandViewer?
Yes. EOS Data Analytics shortens its name to EOSDA, so EOS LandViewer, LandViewer and EOSDA LandViewer all refer to the same browser platform on eos.com.
Does EOSDA have its own satellites?
EOSDA launched EOS SAT-1, an agriculture-focused optical satellite, as the first of a planned constellation. Its imagery does not appear on EOSDA's public high-resolution price list; the high-resolution scenes sold in LandViewer come from partner satellites.
Do I need a subscription to buy high-resolution satellite images?
No, with either company. EOSDA sells high-resolution scenes per order outside its LandViewer plans, and XRTech Group charges per km² with no monthly fee or subscription.
What counts as archive imagery at XRTech Group?
Archive prices apply to images captured more than 90 days ago. Scenes captured within the last 90 days are quoted separately, and anything not yet captured is ordered as new tasking.
Why do satellites with the same resolution cost different amounts?
Price reflects more than pixel size: revisit rate, the ability to capture stereo pairs, the number of spectral bands, positional accuracy, archive depth and each operator's own pricing all differ. That is why two 50 cm satellites can be several dollars apart per km².
Can I use and publish the images I buy?
XRTech Group sells under a project-wide, publication-friendly licence with no limit on the number of users, and as a non-US provider it avoids US export-control delays on international orders. At EOSDA, licence terms come from each partner satellite operator, so check them at the time of order.
What file formats do XRTech Group and EOSDA deliver?
EOSDA LandViewer downloads images as GeoTIFF, KMZ or JPEG. XRTech Group delivers imagery as GeoTIFF or IMG, vectors as SHP or DWG, 3D models as IFC, FBX, glTF, 3D Tiles or OSGB, and point clouds as LAS or LAZ, in WGS84, UTM or a custom projection.
How long does delivery take?
XRTech Group delivers archive imagery within 48 hours with no ordering bottleneck, and DEMs in under 21 days; new tasking depends on the collection window and the weather, backed by up to 25 revisits a day. EOSDA usually delivers commercial archive images 2 to 3 days after the order.
How We Compared
Prices come from the XRTech Group satellite imagery pricing and EOSDA's public high-resolution imagery price list, checked on the date this article was last updated. Satellite availability comes from each company's satellite and product pages, and features from each platform's FAQs and our own searches in both portals. Mission details:
- ESA: Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions
- USGS: Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 missions
- CNSA and CRESDA: Gaofen-3, Gaofen-4 and Gaofen-5B satellites
- China Siwei Surveying and Mapping Technology: SuperView Neo commercial system
Mustafa Jawaad
General Manager, XRTech Group
Mustafa helps governments and critical industries get satellite and UAV data in days rather than weeks, from archive search and new satellite tasking to processed maps, so teams can plan infrastructure faster and with less risk. Connect on LinkedIn.
