NADIR

Earth observation at half a metre. Six satellites, one orbit, looking straight down.

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SCENE 02 / 04 · CROP

WADIAS-SIRHAN

PLACE
Al Jawf Province, Saudi Arabia
CENTRE
30.02°N 38.28°E
ACQUIRED
PASS 4472 · N-05 · 14 JUL 2026 · 07:48 UTC
GSD
10 M (SIMULATED)
CLOUD · SUN EL
0% · 61°
WADI AS-SIRHAN · CIR · 10 MPROCEDURAL RENDER · NOT A PHOTOGRAPH

[ 01 ] THE PLACE

In the Wadi As-Sirhan basin, centre-pivot irrigation draws circles on the desert: a sprinkler arm on wheeled towers turns around a well and waters everything it sweeps.

Most of that water is pumped from aquifers filled thousands of years ago. From orbit the fields read like a spreadsheet: each circle a cell, its colour the state of its crop, its missing wedge the part the arm hasn't reached yet.

[ 02 ] TWO PASSES

BEFORE / AFTER

EARLY PASS · WEEK 06LATER PASS · WEEK 19
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Same circles, thirteen weeks apart. The pivots don't move; the crops under them do. DRAG, CLICK, OR USE ← →

[ 03 ] DELIVERY LOG

  1. SCENEWADI_AS_SIRHAN
  2. BANDNIR_842NM
  3. CLOUD00%
  4. SUN_EL61°
  5. PIVOTS_IN_VIEW39
  6. STATUSDELIVERED

The same scene, as the terminal sees it: one character per pixel, darkest ground to densest glyph.

[ 04 ] FOUR BANDS, ONE PASS

PANCHROMATIC · 3 M3 M
TRUE COLOUR10 M
NEAR-INFRARED · 30 M30 M
NDVI10 M