SatSure launches SatSure Cygnus
Bangalore: SatSure, a decision intelligence startup based in Bangalore (India) and St. Gallen (Switzerland), has launched its synthetic geospatial insights platform, “SatSure Cygnus,” for high-frequency vegetation monitoring applications. Using powerful deep learning methods and SatSure’s proprietary image processing technology, Cygnus can leverage publicly available satellite assets to provide synthetic insights and analysis built over optical, microwave, and multi-spectral satellite imagery 10 meters spatial resolution an up to thrice a week revisit rate.
Despite more than 300 active Earth-imaging satellites, several challenges exist around the affordability, revisit time, and satellite imagery visibility, especially in the tropics. As a company focused on leveraging satellites for delivering decision intelligence solutions, SatSure is addressing this problem statement 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 in the visible and infrared bands generated by it. 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. He said, “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.”
Rashmit Singh Sukhmani, co-founder and CTO of SatSure added, “SatSure Cygnus enabled an excellent 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 several problems associated with satellite technology, ranging from space debris to costs and less than optimal revisit time. Our mandate has always been to roll out smart products and solve fundamental human problems, and we believe SatSure Cygnus represents the best of that thinking.
