Current drone imagery for the municipalities and utilities that keep city infrastructure running.
Every square inch in your service area is recaptured at least once every six months, with additional fresh captures made available within 72 hours when you request it.
When the basemap is 6+ months out of date,
planners, assessors, crews and responders all end up driving out to look.
“Has the lot behind the new plaza been cleared, or is it still trees?”
“Did this property add a pool or a garage since last year?”
“How bad is the pavement on Main between 3rd and 5th right now?”
“Did last week’s storm bring down trees along the river trail?”
“Are trees touching the lines along the Elm Street feeder yet?”
“What did this neighborhood look like before the storm?”
“Was that shed already there before the complaint came in?”
“Is our digital twin showing what’s actually there today?”
Every site visit adds phone photos, PDFs, spreadsheets and email threads, each named, dated and stored differently. Before anyone can use them, someone in GIS or IT has to find, sort, geotag and reconcile it all.
Every request waits on someone to find the right file.
Three photos of the same pole, three different dates.
Teams act on whichever file they found first.
Living Coverage is the shared source of structured ground truth,
keeping teams aligned to the current reality of city conditions.
Checks site progress from the desk, with no drive-out.
Spots new pools, garages and additions before the roll closes.
Reviews pavement and assets from recent imagery.
Compares before-and-after imagery along the trails.
Monitors vegetation growth along feeder lines.
Has a recent pre-event baseline on file.
Compares captures to see what was there, and when.
Keeps the digital twin current with fresh imagery.
No image is ever more than six months old.
High-resolution orthos, angled imagery, and 360-degree views.
Captures already on file are included, so you can compare before and after.
Pull imagery into ArcGIS, Spexi Worldviewer, or your own apps through the Image API.
Request a new capture and get it within 72 hours of completed capture.
Airplane flyovers
Airplanes fly on a fixed schedule,
so your basemap is only as current
as the last flight.
Spexi Living Coverage
Spexi’s local drone pilot network updates imagery across your city continuously, area by area.
How it works
Spexi divides your city into Spexigons, standard units of 25 acres (0.1 sqkm).
Local drone pilots fly automated flight plans, standardizing structured imagery data.
Standardized capture area
Multi-capture angles
Nadir and oblique views on every capture.
2.8 cm resolution
Ground sample distance per pixel.
Resolution
Airplane flyover
Typical 5–7 cm per pixel
Spexi drone capture
2.8 cm per pixel
Multi-capture angles
Nadir
Map-ready, straight down
Oblique
Facades, entrances, heights
See what's been built, cleared, or subdivided since the last cycle, and keep land-use layers current.
Confirm new builds, additions, and demolitions before the annual roll closes.
Keep road, sidewalk, and right-of-way layers current, and plan capital work from conditions no more than six months old.
Monitor trails, tree canopy and park assets across every site, and check storm damage before sending crews out.
Track vegetation growth and right-of-way encroachment around distribution assets inside city limits, season over season.
Keep a pre-event baseline on file that's never more than six months old. After an event, add on-demand capture within 72 hours.
Compare property conditions across capture cycles with timestamped, geo-verified imagery.
Publish one current imagery layer to every department, instead of chasing field photos and one-off flights.
Check roofs, structures and site conditions for underwriting and portfolio reviews, and confirm post-event damage before adjusters arrive.
Plan network builds and fiber routes from current conditions, and check pole lines and right-of-way before crews roll out.
Explore Living Coverage
One of the fastest-changing suburbs in the Houston metro, with 25,000+ acres of living coverage. Explore static and ortho imagery yourself.
3,000+
acres of land transformation
4,000+
homes in progress
$1 billion+
in active development
Everything in a Living Coverage subscription, at a glance.
6 months
Maximum image age
2.8 cm
Resolution (GSD)
25 acres
Per Spexigon
25 seats
Included per subscription
Overlapping captures stitched into one seamless, map-ready image. Standard and Aligned Orthomosaics are available as add-ons.
Individual nadir and oblique photos from every capture.
360° views captured from above the site, so you can look around a location the way a crew on the ground would.
Also included
New captures in your area, no extra cost
Past captures already on file
Straight-down and angled views
Every capture verified before publishing
Unlimited API calls
Simple annual subscription
Add-on
Need a site sooner?
Task a new capture on your own timeline.
72 hrs
Turnaround in active coverage areas
Your data rights
Use imagery across your organization and in your own maps, reports, and applications for the life of your subscription.
Chain of custody
Every capture is timestamped,
geo-located, and verified.
Freshness guarantee
If an area goes past six months, Spexi recaptures it and credits your account.
Access control
Start off with 25 user seats, with API keys managed by your admin.
Flight operations
Flown by vetted local pilots following Transport Canada and FAA rules.
Data residency
US customers' data is stored in the US, while Canadian customers' data is stored in Canada.
Still have a question? Our team can walk you through coverage in your area.
It's an area-based entitlement that keeps imagery no more than six months old. It also includes the captures already on file and lets you request fresh imagery when you need it.
Every area is recaptured at least every six months.
Request an on-demand capture. In active coverage areas, it's delivered within 72 hours of collection.
Spexi recaptures the area and credits your account.
Subscriptions (referred to as entitlements) cover Spexi coverage zones, which include 100+ major U.S. and Canadian cities. Outside those zones, you can order one-off captures or buy existing imagery. Contact Sales to request a new area.
Yes. If the imagery exists, buy it from the archive. If it doesn't, request a new capture.
Not on its own. Active job sites change faster than a six-month cycle. Use on-demand capture for milestone imagery, and Living Coverage to keep the surrounding area current.
Static Images in nadir and oblique views, plus Standard or Aligned Orthomosaics as add-ons. Imagery is delivered through the Image API, Spexi Worldviewer, or ArcGIS.
2.8 cm (1.1 inch) ground sample distance.
Yes. Living Coverage imagery is available in ArcGIS through the Spexi Content Store for ArcGIS.
Each subscription includes 25 seats, with unlimited API calls.
You can use it across your organization and in your own maps and reports.
Your subscription licenses the imagery for use across your organization, including in your own maps, reports, and applications, for the life of your subscription. Captures shared into your area by other customers come with the same rights. For public redistribution or other uses, contact Sales.
Yes. Captures already on file for your area come with the subscription.
Spexi doesn't capture over airports, correctional facilities, large bodies of water, or among tall downtown buildings, in line with flight regulations.
Aerial flyovers operate on a fixed cadence. Often, their maximum revisit is capped at every 6 months. Living Coverage is continuously collecting imagery to keep each image no older than 6 months the effective minimum refresh rate.
Living Coverage for major cities starts at $100 per sq km. Price depends on area size, add-ons, and current promotions.
