Field Guides
How Spiral handles data from the physical world.
Technical guides to how Spiral represents, queries, and materializes visual, spatial, and embodied data, from source formats to model inputs.

NASA Earth Observatory · Landsat / USGS
01 · Spatial intelligence
Spatial data, from coordinates to source ranges.
Geometry, imagery, rasters, point clouds, time, and provenance in one spatial plan.
02 · Robotics & autonomy
Robot data, from recordings to training batches.
Sensors, multiple clocks, actions, calibration, and model-ready windows.

David Butterfield / UW · NOAA PMEL
Visual source specimen · H.264 in MP4
03 · Video & vision
Visual data, from compressed sources to model inputs.
Video, images, annotations, embeddings, transforms, and accelerator-ready tensors.