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Track Land Use Change at a Site Over Time

Capture dated satellite images of any location to document how land use, vegetation, or development has changed over months or years.

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Satellite Imagery

Understanding how a site has changed over time requires access to historical aerial or satellite imagery — something that has always meant expensive specialist subscriptions or cumbersome data portals. Yet the questions that need this data are common: has a competitor expanded their facility? Has deforestation occurred in a supply area? Has a brownfield site changed since the last survey?

Satellite Imagery's dated capture skill retrieves satellite images for any location at a specified date, so you can build a time series showing site changes without leaving your AI workflow. Compare vegetation cover, construction progress, flooding extent, or operational activity across any date range.

Environmental analysts use this to monitor vegetation loss, logistics teams use it to observe competitor facility growth, planning consultants use it to document pre-application site conditions, and insurance assessors use it to verify claims about pre-event site conditions.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Give Claude the coordinates or address of the site and the date range you want to analyze.
  3. Ask Claude to run `capture_dated` via the satellite-imagery tool for each date in the series.
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ChatGPT

  1. Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Provide the site coordinates, the date range, and the purpose of the analysis.
  3. Run `capture_dated` via satellite-imagery for each date in the series.
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Provide the site coordinates, dates, and the document to update.
  3. Run `capture_dated` via satellite-imagery for the relevant dates.
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Build your input list — one site per row with coordinates and the dates to capture.
  3. Run `capture_dated` via satellite-imagery across all sites and dates.
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