Cloud-native geospatial processing suite
FilmDrop is a suite of open source tools for ingesting, archiving, processing, analyzing and distributing geospatial data in the cloud.
The Stack
System
UI
Accessible front-ends for FilmDrop Core and DR including broad API compliance
Domain-specific visualizations, monitoring, and data analysis
Analytics
Notebook-based interface for programmatic access to FilmDrop Core datalakes to create custom processing and analysis workflows
ESRI
Support for publishing ArcGIS Image Services
Core
Ingest, archive, management, and discovery of remote sensing data
Create custom data products and derived analysis data
Create custom data lakes and processing pipelines with support for STAC, NetCDF, HDFx, COGs, Zarr, and more
Metadata generation and management
Deployment
Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
On premises with Kubernetes
DR/Field/Snowball
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FilmDrop is built on a suite of open source projects and standards used across the commercial and public sector geospatial industry. Check out our current FilmDrop open source tools.
FilmDrop UI on Github Cirrus on Github STAC on GithubCore Features
Ingest to Analysis (Core)
FilmDrop can help you manage all aspects of your data pipeline from ground station and S3 ingest through processing and analysis.
STAC Compliant (Core)
All archived metadata in FilmDrop is stored as SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) assets for broad interoperability with tooling and industry partners.
Choose your own Adventure (Core/DR)
FilmDrop is flexible and can support deployment to the AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, and even field-deployable packages like the Snowball, Snowcone, and Snowball Edge.
Plays Well with Others (Core)
Generate ephemeral archives of convenience (AoC) and custom pipelines to make your data more useable. Support for STAC, NetCDF, HDFx, COGs, Zarr, and more.
Analysis Ready
FilmDrop Analytics supports a notebook-based interface for programmatic access to FilmDrop Core datalakes. Depending on end-user needs, customized dashboards and visualizations for data analysis can also be built.
Demo & Talks
Explore FilmDrop
See our processing pipelines in action and explore the data through a map and notebook interface.
Earth Search
Earth Search offers a public search and discovery API for Earth on AWS, Amazon‘s registry of open geospatial datasets. Initial datasets include Sentinel 2, Landsat 4-9, NAIP, and Copernicus DEM.




Element 84 proudly participates in theAWS Registry of Open Data.
Are you a data provider or data consumer?
We can help you manage your geospatial data, from small image collections through petabytes of complex SAR and remote sensing data.
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