NIMBO (10m) Basemaps

Monthly 10 m satellite basemaps derived from Sentinel-2 imagery, with natural-color, near-infrared, vegetation and traceability layers. Geographic availability varies across the historical archive; service availability must be checked per layer and month.

Open Earth Online · Use in GIS · Catalogue and latest observed editions

natural color

infrared color

ndvi

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Technical Specifications

Feature	Details
Service URL	https://prod-data.nimbo.earth/mapcache/tms/1.0.0/{year}_{month}_{layer_name}@kermap/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?kermap_token=[YOUR_TOKEN]
Format	Rendered PNG (including palette-indexed images)
Zoom Levels	0 to 18
Coordinate System	Web Mercator (EPSG:3857)
Coverage	General land extent; verify the area, layer and month
Tile Size	256x256 px

Parameters:

• year: Four-digit year (e.g. 2024)
• month: Month number (1–12)
• layer_name: Basemap identifier. Use 1 for RGB, Natural color composite. Get list of identifiers here.
• z, x, y: TMS tile coordinates for the /mapcache/tms/ endpoint. Rows count from the south; convert an XYZ row using yTMS = 2^z - 1 - yXYZ.
• kermap_token: Your API authentication token.

Available spectral and analytical layers

Use the current service inventory to select a layer and month. Access is specific to the plan and layer; an identifier does not prove local availability.

Layer	Representation	Identifier
RGB / Natural Color	Rendered colour composite	1
NIR	Rendered near-infrared composite	2
NDVI	Colorized NDVI render	3
Traceability	Calendar-month classes; see interpretation limits	6

The map NDVI is a colorized render calculated from the monthly synthesis. Numerical NDVI values are not directly accessible from that render. Calculating NDVI from the synthesis is distinct from averaging per-acquisition NDVI values. The 8-bit colors do not define a 0–255 to NDVI conversion.

Availability and access conditions for LAI, the 2020 reference product and the NDVI statistics API have not been confirmed. Contact NIMBO about these products and services.

RADAR has been withdrawn from NIMBO and is no longer an available layer.

Compare access by plan

Layer	Discovery	Pro	Pro HD	Enterprise
RGB (10 m)	Evaluation	Included	Included	Included
NIR (10 m)	Not included Mode to confirm	Included Earth Online, TMS, WMTS	Included Earth Online, TMS, WMTS	Included Earth Online, TMS, WMTS
NDVI (10 m)	Not included Mode to confirm	Included Earth Online, TMS, WMTS	Included Earth Online, TMS, WMTS	Included Earth Online, TMS, WMTS
Traceability (10 m)	Not included	Not included	Not included	On agreement

• RGB (10 m): Earth Online, TMS, WMTS.
• Traceability (10 m): TMS, WMTS.

Modes listed apply only to the documented combinations. “To confirm” includes missing rules. Evaluation, on-request and agreement conditions, delivery methods and any differences by mode are listed below.

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Data availability timeline

• 2019-10 to 2022-02 | Product | Coverage: Europe, MENA (Middle East, North Africa and Western Russia) | Partial. General archive extent; not a guarantee for every layer, area or month.
• 2022-03 to 2023-01 | Product | Coverage: USA, Europe, MENA (Middle East, North Africa and Western Russia) | Partial. General archive extent; not a guarantee for every layer, area or month.
• 2023-02 to Ongoing | Product | Coverage: Global land (general extent) | Partial. General archive extent; not a guarantee for every layer, area or month.

No availability mask is currently supplied for Basemap. Its general coverage does not prove that every layer is available for every area and month. Check the requested layer, area and edition.

Check the recorded editions and the requested area.

Historical Back-processing & Custom Requests

Historical processing outside the documented archive may be discussed on request. Confirm feasibility, geographic scope, dates and delivery conditions with KERMAP; the table does not establish immediate access to an unlisted edition.

If your use case requires historical data outside of the standard availability—such as for EUDR compliance (deforestation baseline), long-term change detection, or retrospective agricultural analysis—please contact our sales team. We can discuss tailored delivery options to generate specific time-series for your area of interest.

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What is NIMBO basemaps (10m) ?

Monthly updates and data freshness

Monthly editions have an operational publication target of the 15th of the following month. Delays of up to two weeks can occur. This is not a contractual guarantee or evidence that an edition has actually been published.

The represented month, source acquisition dates, actual publication date and last observation date are distinct. A target publication date does not confirm that an edition has been released. The catalogue export timestamp is not a product acquisition, publication, revision or verification date.

The latest observed editions are recorded per layer.

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How the monthly composites work

The monthly synthesis interpolates the available and usable Sentinel-2 acquisitions, taking cloud coverage into account, to represent conditions as close as possible to the 15th of the represented month. The 15th is a synthesis target, not the acquisition date of every pixel.

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Cloud removal and quality control

Cloud reduction is a processing objective; residual clouds and artefacts remain possible. Quantified cloud-removal performance and radiometric-stability measurements have not been supplied.

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Traceability layer

Traceability classes describe calendar months relative to the requested month M, not exact acquisition dates. The class-assignment rule for pixels interpolated from multiple acquisitions is unknown. NoData and transparency behavior have not been specified.

Traceability availability must be checked independently of RGB, for the requested area and edition. Some advertised archive editions returned errors in samples checked on 2026-09-30. Current availability for those editions has not been confirmed.

See the Traceability guide and calendar-month legend.

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Comparison with other basemaps

No published benchmark currently establishes relative loading speed or performance against competing services.

Compare products for your own area, required dates, access rights and workflow. NIMBO supplies monthly rendered basemaps through documented map services; comparative performance has not been established here.

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Integration examples

### TMS access
https://prod-data.nimbo.earth/mapcache/tms/1.0.0/{YEAR}_{MONTH}_{LAYER}@kermap/{z}/{x}/{-y}.png?kermap_token=<YOUR_TOKEN>

### WMTS capabilities
https://prod-data.nimbo.earth/mapcache/wmts?kermap_token=<YOUR_TOKEN>

### Example (RGB, June 2024)
https://prod-data.nimbo.earth/mapcache/tms/1.0.0/2024_6_1@kermap/{z}/{x}/{-y}.png?kermap_token=<YOUR_TOKEN>

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GIS and web mapping integration

Use the GIS connection guides for QGIS, ArcGIS or web mapping. NDVI supports visual interpretation; the rendered colours are not numerical raster values. Traceability access follows its Enterprise conditions.

Pro and Pro HD allow internal professional use, including work in a GIS.

Do not share full-resolution imagery or HD/4K image exports with third parties, including inside PDFs, presentations or videos.

Degraded imagery may be usable with NIMBO informed and credited, plus the applicable source credits. This is not automatic permission or a requirement for prior approval.

Pro and Pro HD allow statistics and vector outputs in client deliverables, with NIMBO and source credits. Raw imagery streams, accounts, tokens and service access are not included.

No numerical export threshold or automatic definition of degraded imagery is set. Contact NIMBO about ambiguous cases.

Keep the NIMBO and applicable source credits. Attribution alone does not authorize redistribution.

Full usage, sharing and attribution rules

Typical use cases

Use the monthly images for visual review of vegetation, land use and landscape changes. Confirm the time interpretation, coverage and resolution required by your project before relying on a change or an analytical result.

Service verification

Checked on 2026-09-30. RGB, NIR and NDVI PNG samples responded through TMS, WMTS and WMS; equivalent requests produced identical decoded pixels. The map images are rendered products, not raw spectral bands or numerical NDVI rasters.

The inventory listed months from October 2019 for these three components. October 2019 Paris samples contained data, while San Francisco samples were fully transparent. Some advertised old Traceability tiles returned HTTP 502. An advertised layer and HTTP 200 alone do not establish complete coverage.

See the catalogue record for the latest verified edition per layer, and the TMS, WMTS and WMS guides for working URL formats.