{"id":830009,"date":"2025-02-26T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/wyvern-unveils-free-hyperspectral-datasets\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:12:57","slug":"wyvern-unveils-free-hyperspectral-datasets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/wyvern-unveils-free-hyperspectral-datasets\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyvern unveils free hyperspectral datasets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 25 images released through Wyvern’s Open Data Program include this image of Idaho’s Priest Lake, near the U.S.-Canada border, captured on July 3, 2024. Credit:<\/span> Wyvern<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Canadian hyperspectral startup Wyvern began publicly sharing Earth-observation images Feb. 3 from its high-resolution satellite sensors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Open Data Program release is not only important for direct applications in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, but because hyperspectral image data from satellites has never been widely commercially available,\u201d Wyvern co-founder Callie Lissinna told SpaceNews<\/em> by email. \u201cThis is a relatively new type of data \u2014 a level of detail that is new to the satellite imagery industry \u2014 so allowing the community to innovate new use cases using free data is particularly important and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wyvern\u2019s public release will allow customers to \u201cbuild novel algorithms to analyze the data, leverage the data in geospatial data hackathons, and train advanced models that derive useful information from hyperspectral imagery,\u201d Lissinna added.<\/p>\n

Wyvern image of mining operations in Escondida, Chile. Credit:<\/span> Wyvern<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Forests, Fires and Farms<\/h4>\n

The 25 images Wyvern released show forests, wildfires, crops, coastal bathymetry, open-pit mines, solar farms, and oil and gas wells around the world. Additional imagery is expected to be released this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to launch our Open Data Program, reflecting Wyvern\u2019s commitment to foster innovation in the remote sensing community and demonstrate the power of hyperspectral imagery to help solve some of our most urgent global challenges,\u201d Adam O\u2019Connor, Wyvern chief product officer, said in a statement. \u201cWe envision the Open Data Program as playing a crucial role in supporting our fellow humans in their time of greatest need by providing access to free Earth observation imagery for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wyvern\u2019s three Dragonette cubesats built by AAC Clyde Space provide imagery with a resolution of 5.3 meters per pixel. Dragonette-001 provides data in 23 spectral bands, while Dragonette-002 and -003 offer 31 spectral bands. A fourth Dragonette is scheduled to launch during the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n

In addition to its own fleet, Wyvern will gather data from sensors on Loft Orbital satellites<\/a>. The first Loft satellite with a Wyvern hyperspectral payload will launch no earlier than March 2025. A second will follow later in 2025, according to the news release. <\/p>\n

Wyvern was \u201cinspired especially by the open data philosophy of our friends at\u00a0Umbra<\/a>,\u201d Lissinna said in a statement. \u201cWe believe the geospatial community will collectively benefit from data providers like Wyvern sharing imagery freely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wyvern is releasing the hyperspectral datasets under a creative commons, or commercial use, license. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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