Virtual Satellite Constellation Launched by SatSure
"SatSure Cygnus", a virtual satellite constellation for high-frequency vegetation monitoring, has been launched by SatSure, a decision intelligence startup based in Bangalore, India and St. Gallen, Switzerland.
"With the current business and technology climate improving the case for space sustainability and optimal cost management, SatSure Cygnus is a pioneering and innovative technology that can enhance the functionality of existing satellite data and improving their application for solving critical challenges related to food, environment and livelihood."
SatSure co-founder and CEO, Prateep Basu.
SatSure Cygnus is a proprietary image processing technology with the ability to leverage publicly available satellite assets to provide synthetic insights and analysis built over optical, microwave, and multi-spectral satellite imagery at 10 meters (33 feet) spatial resolution at a revisit rate of up to three times per week.
Despite there being more than 300 active Earth-imaging satellites, there still exist several challenges around the affordability, revisit time, and visibility of satellite imagery, especially in the tropics. As a company focused on leveraging satellites for delivering decision intelligence solutions, SatSure is addressing this problem through its proprietary SatSure Cygnus platform.
SatSure Cygnus, which will be commercially available as an API through the SatSure Sparta platform early next year, allows users to access synthetic insights the virtual satellite constellation has generated in the visible and infrared bands. Its advantage lies in its ability to not only mitigate problems involving costs and revisit time that is conventionally associated with satellite data but also ensure accuracy of the synthetic insights on vegetation monitoring by employing proprietary technologies across a range of domains from satellite data to cloud computing and deep learning, developed by SatSure's R&D teams.
SatSure's co-founder and CEO, Prateep Basu announced this disruptive innovation at the World Economic Forum's recent Pioneers of Change Summit. "With the current business and technology climate improving the case for space sustainability and optimal cost management, SatSure Cygnus is a pioneering and innovative technology that can enhance the functionality of existing satellite data and improving their application for solving critical challenges related to food, environment and livelihood," Basu said.
"SatSure Cygnus enabled a great opportunity for us to combine our significant expertise in satellite data with our established work in artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud platforms to solve a number of problems associated with satellite technology, ranging from space debris to costs and less than optimal revisit time," said Rashmit Singh Sukhmani, co-founder and CTO of SatSure. "Our mandate has always been to not only roll out smart products but also to solve fundamental human problems and we believe SatSure Cygnus represents the best of that thinking."
(Source: SatSure news release)