DroneUA visit to Planet Labs: development of satellite monitoring in Ukraine

November 07, 2024
Візит DroneUA до Planet Labs: розвиток супутникового моніторингу в Україні
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The DroneUA team had the opportunity to visit the office of Planet Labs, a company that has revolutionised the satellite monitoring industry and currently has about 200 remote sensing satellites. At the beginning of its journey, the company started with a prototype satellite built in a garage using common commercial components. Today, Planet Labs is a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with a fleet of satellites that cover the entire globe several times a day, providing up-to-date data for numerous industries.

Planet Labs pays special attention to agriculture: their technologies allow agricultural holdings around the world to monitor large areas of land in real time to increase productivity and optimise processes. The company entered the Ukrainian market back in 2017, and today its data also supports the security of Ukraine's borders, helping defenders make important decisions.

 

The meeting discussed the potential of satellite monitoring to track the activities of the “shadow fleet”. Publicly available satellite data is proving to be effective, as in Brazil, where illegal deforestation of tropical forests has decreased by 40% over the past year thanks to real-time satellite monitoring.

For DroneUA, it is important to use open data to create new projects, in particular to support Ukrainian businesses, farmers, and other industries that can significantly increase their efficiency and expand their capabilities thanks to modern technologies.

 

DroneUA is grateful to the Competitive Economy of Ukraine Programme USAID and the Ukrainian Foundation for Startups (UFS) for organising the visit and the opportunity to join the global technological transformation.

 

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DroneUA is an international system integrator of unmanned solutions and robotics.

On the market of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, the DroneUA group of companies is the largest importer and distributor of leading drone manufacturers in the world and represents technological solutions from the brands XAG, EcoFlow, Pix4D, Parrot, Chasing, DroneDeploy, AgroCares and others.

The group of companies has its own engineering, production and service divisions, as well as an open data processing center. Technological solutions presented by DroneUA are used on more than 4 million hectares of cultivated areas of Ukraine. According to the results of the 2021 and 2022 agricultural seasons, more than 2.2 million hectares were protected with drone sprayers from DroneUA.

DroneUA is among the top three most innovative businesses in the agricultural sector of Ukraine according to FORBES and among the twenty most innovative enterprises of Ukraine.

The group of companies continues to expand the list of technological brands that it presents on the Ukrainian market, and is active in agriculture, the oil and gas industry, as well as in the fields of energy, geodesy and topography.

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