Earth observation software for planners and analysts
Ready-made analyses over satellite imagery it downloads for you. No licence fees, and nothing to set up first.
Hiri Desktop
Raster analysis on your own machine
Nine guided analyses over satellite imagery and elevation it fetches for you. The analysis runs on your own machine and your rasters stay there.
- Runs on
- macOS · Windows
- Price
- Free
Hiri Studio
Map data in the browser
Draw and edit vector data, import and export more than twenty formats, style by property and share collections with your team.
- Runs on
- Browser · Cloud
- Price
- Free tier
Which one you need
What one run produces
A land-cover analysis over 482 km², exactly as the desktop app returns it: a classified raster, the hectares in each class, the scene it was computed from, and what the method cannot separate.
Land cover · 6 September 2024
Three quarters vegetation, a fifth water, and 557 hectares built-up.
- Water
- 11,121 ha 23.1%
- Vegetation
- 35,992 ha 74.7%
- Built-up
- 557 ha 1.2%
- Bare soil
- 92 ha 0.2%
- Mixed
- 442 ha 0.9%
- Source
- Sentinel-2 L2A scene S2B_56HMJ_20240906_0_L2A, 6 September 2024, 0.02% cloud, 0% missing. Cloud and shadow masked with the scene classification. Index thresholds: MNDWI > 0, NDVI > 0.3, NDBI > 0 with NDVI < 0.2, first match wins.
- Limitation
- Built-up and bare soil are separated only by test order and an NDVI ceiling. NDBI does not distinguish them, so cleared ground and dry earth can be counted as built. The thresholds are conventions for temperate imagery, not constants.
Work we take on directly
Analysis, custom software, AI adoption and consulting, separate from the products above. Some teams need a question answered once; some need a tool built; some need to know whether an approach will hold before they commit to it.
Spatial analysis
An answer from geographic data, and the working behind it
Custom software development
Built around your workflow, not the other way round
AI adoption
Put AI on the tasks where it pays for itself
Consulting
A second opinion before you commit budget
Who uses this
The analyses were built for planning evidence and environmental reporting.
Urban planning
Built-up change and green space per resident, for infrastructure decisions and public consultation.
Conservation
Vegetation extent, surface water and growing-season timing, compared between two dates over the same area.
Hazard and recovery
Burn severity after a fire and water extent after a flood, classified against published thresholds.
Property and siting
Terrain, slope and surrounding land cover for a site, without a GIS department.
What it costs
Studio’s storage and API figures are counted per organisation rather than per seat, so a plan does not get more expensive as your team grows. Services are quoted per engagement, because the scope decides the price.
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Spatio
Open-source spatio-temporal engine
An engine for real-time systems: spatio-temporal indexing, data fusion for moving objects and low-latency processing at the edge.
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Start with the free one. There is no limit on what you run.
Hiri Desktop runs its analyses on your own machine, as many as you like, and its rasters and results stay on your disk. Studio keeps your maps for your team, so what you put in it is stored in your account.
- Card
- Neither
- Run limit
- None
- Analysis runs
- On your machine
- Your data leaves it
- Studio only