Eapi Maxar Maxar eAPI
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For Agents
Search the Maxar satellite imagery catalogue by area of interest and acquisition window, and place orders for imagery delivery.
Use for: Search for cloud-free satellite imagery over a specific polygon last month, Find Maxar scenes captured in the last 30 days with under 10 percent cloud cover, Place an order for the selected satellite scenes, Retrieve high-resolution imagery for a wildfire response area
Not supported: Does not handle imagery analytics, change detection algorithms, or live raster streaming - use for Maxar catalogue search and imagery order placement only.
The Maxar eAPI provides programmatic access to Maxar's high-resolution Earth observation imagery archive. The two-endpoint surface lets agents search the catalogue by area of interest, cloud cover, and acquisition date, and submit orders for delivery of selected scenes. It is used by GIS teams, defence and intelligence customers, and commercial monitoring services that need fresh sub-metre satellite imagery on demand.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Maxar eAPI to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Maxar eAPI, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Feapi.maxar.com%2Fmaxar" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Feapi.maxar.com%2Fmaxar" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Maxar eAPI API.
Search Maxar's satellite imagery archive by polygon, date range, and cloud cover
Filter results by sensor, off-nadir angle, and resolution to match a project specification
Submit an imagery order against selected catalogue scenes for downstream delivery
Inspect order parameters before commit to validate AOI and acquisition window
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Maxar eAPI API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Disaster response imagery tasking
Emergency response teams need fresh imagery over a wildfire, flood, or earthquake AOI within hours. Agents call /e1so/search with the affected polygon and a 72-hour acquisition window, then call /e1so/order against the most recent cloud-free scene to commission delivery.
Search Maxar for scenes over the polygon defined by [-118.5,34.0],[-118.4,34.1] captured in the last 7 days with under 15 percent cloud cover, then order the most recent matching scene.
Commercial change detection monitoring
Insurance, mining, and infrastructure firms run repeated change-detection passes over fixed AOIs. Agents schedule periodic /e1so/search calls and order any new scene that improves on the existing baseline in resolution or recency, automating what was previously a manual procurement step.
Each Monday, search for new Maxar scenes over the fixed AOI WKT 'POLYGON((...))' since the previous run and order any scene captured in the last week.
GIS analyst on-demand workflows
GIS analysts working in QGIS or ArcGIS often need the latest sub-metre imagery for a study area. Agents wrap the search and order endpoints into a one-line natural-language request, removing the friction of manually clicking through Maxar's portal.
Find the highest-resolution Maxar scene over coordinates 51.5074N,0.1278W from this calendar year and return its scene ID and acquisition timestamp.
Agent-driven imagery procurement
Through Jentic, a planning or research agent translates natural-language imagery needs into Maxar searches and orders. The agent does not need to know endpoint paths or token formats - Jentic resolves the right operation and injects credentials so the user just describes the AOI and acquisition window.
Given a city name and a date, geocode the city, build a 5km bounding box, search Maxar for matching scenes, and order the best match.
Key Endpoints
2 endpoints — the maxar eapi provides programmatic access to maxar's high-resolution earth observation imagery archive.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/e1so/search
Search the Maxar imagery catalogue
POST
/e1so/order
Place an imagery order
GET
/e1so/search
Search the Maxar imagery catalogue
POST
/e1so/order
Place an imagery order
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring Maxar eAPI by hand means setting up its bearer auth and coding the catalogue search and order placement calls against the eapi host yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import Maxar eAPI from the API Directory, store the token once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Maxar eAPI carries its search and order targets in the request body rather than the URL path, so scope your agent to the operations it needs, such as searching the catalogue. The imagery order operation stays out of the allowed set unless you add it.
Credential isolation
Your Maxar bearer token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected into the Authorization header at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find satellite imagery over a polygon' or 'place an imagery order', and Jentic returns the matching Maxar search and order operations with their input schemas so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Maxar eAPI API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Maxar eAPI use?
Maxar eAPI uses HTTP bearer authentication. Through Jentic, the bearer token is stored encrypted in the vault and attached to every Authorization header at execution time, so the raw token never enters the agent's context.
Can I search and order Maxar imagery in a single workflow?
Yes. /e1so/search returns matching catalogue scenes for a given AOI and date range, and /e1so/order accepts the scene IDs to commit an order. An agent can chain the two calls in one workflow to go from intent to order in a single Jentic execute call sequence.
What are the rate limits for the Maxar eAPI?
The spec does not publish numeric rate limits. Maxar applies per-account quotas based on contract - check your account portal or contact Maxar customer success for the burst and daily limits applied to your subscription.
How do I order satellite imagery through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'order satellite imagery', load the schema for POST /e1so/order, then execute with the scene IDs returned by an earlier search. The flow is: pip install jentic, then await client.search, await client.load, await client.execute.
Does the Maxar eAPI deliver imagery directly in the response?
No. /e1so/order commits an order; imagery is delivered asynchronously through the channel configured on your Maxar account, typically S3 or SFTP. The API surface is for catalogue discovery and order placement, not raster streaming.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Maxar eAPI?
Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which Maxar eAPI operations the agent may call and which credentials it can use. The Maxar eAPI exposes two operations, catalogue search at GET /e1so/search and imagery ordering at POST /e1so/order, so you can allow your agent to search the imagery catalogue while keeping the order operation out of its permitted set. You add the ordering operation to the allowed set only when you decide the agent should commit orders.
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