Objectives of the Product

Climate change is already strongly changing our environment and the global food security is beginning to falter. Hyperfield service provides global, daily and actionable real-time data on ecological assets through spaceborne hyperspectral imaging and AI. This novel small satellite-based solution enables creating a constellation of tens of satellites highly cost-efficiently, providing affordable data even for developing countries.

Customers and their Needs

Hyperfield service help farmers in precision farming as well as bio-asset owners, businesses and governments get better insight for making effective decisions towards sustainable farming, carbon binding and reduction of climate effects.

Targeted customer/users countries

The service is global and targets primarily agriculture, carbon trading, insurance, and finance sectors.

Product description

Hyperfield is a highly vertically integrated product that combines a constellation of hyperspectral small satellites, ground segment and AI/ML-based analytics to provide actionable data to customers and end-users.

The first-generation satellite for the constellation is developed in this project jointly by Kuva Space and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The 6U CubeSat carries a novel tunable high-resolution hyperspectral imager covering visual to near-infrared wavelengths. Further satellite generations will also cover short-wave infrared wavelengths by including additional imaging channels.

The mission operations are performed from Kuva Space’s mission control and ground-station in Espoo, Finland. The downlinked hyperspectral data is processed on ground to validate its usability to the selected customer and end user applications. Advanced AI/ML-based hyperspectral data analytics are developed concurrently with the project. The eventual satellite constellation will be launched after the validation mission and consists of tens of small satellites providing up to daily re-visits to selected areas of interest. Kuva Space is working with customers and end-users to deliver different kinds of data products ranging from L2 to L4.

Added Value

The service provides much more frequent spaceborne hyperspectral data and insights than currently available from commercial and scientific satellites. The data can be used in effective decision making in near real time and opens totally new applications that require or benefit from frequent spaceborne hyperspectral data.

Current Status

The service provides much more frequent spaceborne hyperspectral data and insights than currently available from commercial and scientific satellites. The data can be used in effective decision making in near real time and opens totally new applications that require or benefit from frequent spaceborne hyperspectral data.