# ORCA Medium Class Thermal Orthos
*analysis-service . products*

ORCA can produce medium-high GSD thermal orthos for discriminating water, rocks, vegetation types and low-albedo man-made structures.

## Specifications
- **manufacturer**: skyflox
- **entity type**: analysis_service
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-10
- **verified by**: operator
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: skyflox
- **attributes**: {"kind":"analysis-service","manufacturer":"skyflox","description":"ORCA can produce medium-high GSD thermal orthos for discriminating water, rocks, vegetation types and low-albedo man-made structures."}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
ORCA Medium Class Thermal Orthos is an airborne thermal imagery product from SkyfloX, produced by the ORCA aircraft payload using a COTS thermal sensor. Outputs are georeferenced orthorectified thermal images intended for discriminating surface materials including water bodies, bare rock, vegetation types, and low-albedo man-made structures.[^skyflox-products] The ESA DOCS-2 commercialisation project documents a 15-metre GSD thermal product for the Block I ORCA design; the specific thermal sensor model and infrared band (LWIR or MWIR) have not been publicly disclosed by the operator.[^docs-2-esa] Applications include land surface temperature retrieval, thermal anomaly detection, and urban heat-island studies.[^skyflox-products][^docs-2-esa]

## Compositional position
- building-thermal (topics) --[topic_capabilities]--> ORCA Medium Class Thermal Orthos

## Sources
- [skyflox-products] | SkyfloX ORCA products page | https://skyflox.eu/products/ | tier=operator-marketing | accessed=2026-06-10
- [docs-2-esa] | DOCS-2 ESA Space Solutions project page - SkyfloX ORCA commercialisation | https://business.esa.int/projects/docs-2 | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-10

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