Tonight at 2:49 CET, the European Copernicus program launched the Sentinel-2B satellite into orbit. The launch took place in Kourou, French Guiana. Sentinel-2B became the fifth satellite of the European Environmental Monitoring Programme.
Sentinel-2 Mission
Sentinel-2 provides optical image scanning from an altitude of 786 kilometers in 13 spectral bands with a resolution of 10, 20 or 60 meters and a width of 290 km.
Now there will be 2 satellites in orbit. With orbit every 100 minutes, they will cover the planet's area in 5 days — data will be updated twice as often.
Satellite data combined with drones
DroneUA has been working with the European Copernicus program for more than 2 years and is now able to increase the frequency of providing data to clients by 2 times, due to open satellite monitoring data.
The use of satellite data in combination with unmanned monitoring from DroneUA allows not only to obtain high-quality service for enterprises of any size, but also, in the case of particularly large facilities, to formulate the prioritization of work performed in the field of precision agriculture and get the maximum effect from even minimal investments in innovative technologies.
The ability to analyze data at the regional or even national level, combining drones and satellite data, opens up new horizons for monitoring sowing campaigns, monitoring crop rotation and yield forecasts.
In February 2016, DroneUA together with the Aerospace Research Center represented Ukraine at the annual congress of participants in the international scientific project OPTIMISE in Dubrovnik, Howarthia. Where we provided proof of the compliance of technological solutions and the direct dependence of the results of unmanned and satellite monitoring. (Read the news about this).
