CSDA Vendor – OroraTech – NASA Science

NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program has acquired commercial datasets from OroraTech.

OroraTech operates an active constellation of satellites equipped with multispectral thermal infrared imagers that observe in the midwave (MWIR) and longwave (LWIR) infrared bands. The constellation is designed for high revisit frequency: in 2026, OroraTech provides up to twice‑daily coverage, with revisit intervals as short as 15 minutes planned for future deployments.

OroraTech data products available through CSDA include Level 1 thermal infrared imagery, Near Real-Time (NRT) Active fire detections, and Land Surface Temperature (LST). Applications span wildfire detection and monitoring (emergency response, pre- and post-analysis), diurnal studies including urban heat mapping, water-stress monitoring, agricultural and aquacultural monitoring, meteorological use cases, and environmental research.

Obtaining Data

All newly awarded commercial data provider products are currently undergoing CSDA evaluation. If you have any questions about these products, please email CSDA Support.

Copyright

Data products and derivatives for imagery must contain copyright markings as specified below, where YYYY is the year of the image acquisition.

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

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 used data made available through the NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.” Authorized users should send CSDA a courtesy copy of any publications that include CSDA-distributed data.

Documentation

OroraTech Commercial Data Available to Authorized CSDA Users

Satellite Mission Characteristics

Instrument Characteristics

Product Characteristics

Authorized Data Use and Users

Access to this data is governed by the CSDA End User License Agreements (EULAs). The minimum access level for data is the USG license. Depending on the specific data products provided, some or all data may also be available under higher-tier CSDA licenses, including USG-Plus and Public licenses.

Under the applicable license tier, authorized users may include:

• U.S. Government federal employees
• State, local, territorial, and tribal government personnel
• U.S. Government contractors and subcontractors
• U.S. Government–funded researchers and academic partners
• Other users authorized under applicable CSDA license levels (USG, USG-Plus, or Public)

All data use must comply with the terms of the EULA. All data requests must be reviewed and approved by NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program.

Top Banner Image: Five thermal images captured by OroraTech’s FOREST satellites. In the Level 1C products, cooler surfaces appear black to deep purple, warmer surfaces orange to red, and the hottest — active fire — near-white. In the Land Surface Temperature (LST) products, cooler surfaces appear blue or teal and warmer surfaces appear red. From left to right: sea surface temperature off the North Carolina coast, where thermal gradients trace offshore water masses (LST product); a wildfire near Spokane, Washington, in the midwave infrared band (Level 1C MWIR), which the fire detection product is built on; the same Spokane wildfire in the longwave infrared band (Level 1C LWIR), where the entire landscape registers as warm; urban heat islands across New York City rendered semi-transparently over a visible-light image of the city for geographic reference (LST product); and Lake Tahoe, on the California–Nevada border, whose warmer water stands out against the cold surrounding Sierra Nevada terrain (Level 1C LWIR). Credit: OroraTech GmbH