Spexi drone imagery is now orderable alongside satellite and aerial, giving ArcGIS Online users access to the full range of Earth imagery in a single workflow.
Available today as part of Esri‘s latest ArcGIS Online release, Content Store for ArcGIS, powered by SkyWatch, now carries standardized, ultra-high-resolution drone imagery from Spexi. This integration makes Spexi the first drone imagery network available alongside satellite and aerial imagery in a single ordering workflow.
It’s a milestone for the geospatial industry, but the bigger story is what it means for Content Store users. The full range of Earth observation imagery, from satellites in orbit, to aircraft, to drones flying just overhead, is now accessible from one place, ordered the same way, and delivered as ready-to-use data products.
The missing layer in the imagery stack
For years, teams have been able to order satellite and aerial imagery through established channels. Drone imagery was the exception. Even though it offers the highest resolution available, it stayed stubbornly hard to get. Teams had to source contractors, coordinate flights, standardize outputs, generate orthomosaics, and stitch together fragmented delivery on their own. Drone capture was a project, not a product.
That’s the layer the addition of Spexi to Content Store has now closed. With Spexi’s drone imagery, customers can task and order drone captures the same way they already order satellite and aerial, turning what used to be a custom logistics exercise into a few clicks.
How it works in Content Store
Through Content Store, customers can schedule high-resolution drone captures over the specific parcels they care about, and receive standardized orthomosaic data products in return. Spexi imagery is automatically processed into clean, GIS-ready orthomosaics, and for customers who need additional precision, those products can be aligned to ground control during post-processing.
This is consistent with how SkyWatch handles the rest of the imagery stack: discovery, tasking, processing, and delivery handled in one workflow, with standardized outputs that drop straight into the tools teams already use. Drone simply becomes another data source you can choose based on the resolution and detail your job demands.
Why one workflow across every altitude matters
The value of Content Store isn’t any single source. It’s having all of them in one place. A monitoring program might use satellite for broad, repeatable coverage, aerial for regional detail, and drone for the parcels that demand the very highest resolution. When those sources live in separate procurement processes, building that program is slow and fragmented. When they integrate seamlessly with ArcGIS, teams can match the right imagery to each part of the job without changing tools, vendors, or workflows.
Adding drone to the Content Store extends SkyWatch’s core promise: agnostic, on-demand access to the widest range of Earth observation imagery, delivered as standardized data products and integrated into existing pipelines. Drone is the latest layer, and the highest-resolution one yet.
Take advantage of a special launch promotion
Spexi drone imagery is available to order through the Content Store today. To celebrate the launch, SkyWatch and Spexi are offering the first 100 customers 50% off their first order of standardized Spexi drone imagery.
Ultra-high-resolution drone imagery is no longer a one-off project. It’s an accessible, scalable data product, ordered when and where it’s needed, right alongside the rest of the imagery you already rely on.
Visit Spexi’s website to learn more about Spexi imagery in ArcGIS.
