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Naples and Vesuvius in colour infrared, taken by the RapidEye satellite – TROCHIA – on 21 December 2008. © RapidEye Ag
Comprising five identical satellites in a sun-synchronous orbit,
RapidEye opened for business on 4 February 2009 to enable
world-wide monitoring of our planet's surface.
RapidEye entered the final frontier from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 29 August 2008 as Europe’s first project-financed commercial Earth-observation enterprise.
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates of Canada, SSTL of the UK and Jena Optronik of Germany designed and developed the RapidEye enterprise for RapidEye AG of Brandenburg, Germany. Mott MacDonald was appointed as lenders’ technical advisor in 2004. Our team of communications specialists was responsible for recording and reporting technical and project risks that had the potential to impact on the lenders.
With a private and public investment of over €160 million, RapidEye focuses on delivering geospatial intelligence solutions to markets including agriculture, forestry, communications, power, governments, cartography and visualisation and simulation.
The satellite constellation captures more than 4 million km2 of the Earth’s surface daily at a 5m resolution and supplies a secure, near real-time delivery of multi-spectral data. Its spectral bands can differentiate between various types of vegetation and can identify key infrastructure with a positional accuracy up to 1:25,000.
Boldly circling our planet 15 times every 24 hours RapidEye has the ability to observe a particular area each day. The satellites are able to provide key information for:
RapidEye entered the final frontier from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 29 August 2008 as Europe’s first project-financed commercial Earth-observation enterprise.
MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates of Canada, SSTL of the UK and Jena Optronik of Germany designed and developed the RapidEye enterprise for RapidEye AG of Brandenburg, Germany. Mott MacDonald was appointed as lenders’ technical advisor in 2004. Our team of communications specialists was responsible for recording and reporting technical and project risks that had the potential to impact on the lenders.
With a private and public investment of over €160 million, RapidEye focuses on delivering geospatial intelligence solutions to markets including agriculture, forestry, communications, power, governments, cartography and visualisation and simulation.
The satellite constellation captures more than 4 million km2 of the Earth’s surface daily at a 5m resolution and supplies a secure, near real-time delivery of multi-spectral data. Its spectral bands can differentiate between various types of vegetation and can identify key infrastructure with a positional accuracy up to 1:25,000.
Boldly circling our planet 15 times every 24 hours RapidEye has the ability to observe a particular area each day. The satellites are able to provide key information for:
- Change detection
- Crop identification
- Feature identification
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Land cover analysis
- Risk management