RapidEye Completes Imaging Canadian Growing Season

13 October 2009, 1:46pm

Brandenburg / Havel, Germany, October 13, 2009 – RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that they have delivered 2009's Canadian growing season images of agricultural areas to their customer GeoFarmSolutions Inc. in conjunction with the Agri-Trend Network.

In a collaborative effort, GeoFarm, Agri-Trend, and RapidEye began working together at the beginning of 2009
to offer enhanced satellite imagery solutions to Canadian clients by offering "near real-time" satellite imagery for agriculture use backed by superior agronomics. The RapidEye satellite system was designed to meet the needs of precision agriculture, as it is the only commercial satellite system that acquires data in the red-edge spectral band. This band provides specific information about the chlorophyll content, and therefore nitrogen status of the crops.

“RapidEye provided high quality imagery products of different types on a 'field order by field order' basis to our Canadian customers over a wide range of crop types and conditions. This led to a variety of precision agriculture decisions and applications. With Agri-Trend Agri-Coaches™ providing groundtruthing and agronomic insight, the value of these informative images was understood from a practical agronomy standpoint for the ultimate benefit of our growers,” says Warren Bills, President of GeoFarm Solutions Inc.

Customers benefited from multiple captures of 5 meter resolution, multi-spectral imagery (red, green, blue, near infrared and red edge) of their fields throughout this year's season. Products such as bare ground,
chlorophyll and ground cover maps were delivered via the Internet to farmers, ag-retailers and agronomic consultants.

For more information about GeoFarm's services and Agri-Trend’s services please visit the links beow.

GeoFarm's services

Agri-Trend’s services

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