A developer’s guide to analyze_image , analyze_text , and the future of location intelligence.

The motivation

You’re a developer. You know that satellite imagery is everywhere. But most GeoAI solutions are either:

Black‑box desktop tools with 500 buttons

Intelligence‑grade surveillance systems you’d never touch

Overhyped pixel classifiers that can’t tell a port from a parking lot

We wanted something different:

A code‑first, ethical, and actually useful geospatial AI that runs in a Jupyter notebook.

So we built it with:

arcgis.ai.analyze_image – to read satellite photos

arcgis.ai.analyze_text – to write structured reports

A few dozen lines of Python, and ArcGIS Location Platform (beta AI)

No mouse clicks.…