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DragonEye Imager

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High-resolution smallsat electro-optical imager producing 1.4 m panchromatic and 2.8 m multispectral imagery across an 11-band spectral configuration. The 11 bands span visible, near-infrared, red edge, water vapour, aerosol, and panchromatic channels. Two DragonEye cameras fly on EOSSAT-1 (ZA-008/AgriSat-1), launched January 2023, providing 22.2 km swath from 540 km altitude for agricultural monitoring operated by EOS Data Analytics.

Sensor

The DragonEye Imager is a high-resolution electro-optical pushbroom sensor manufactured by Dragonfly Aerospace for smallsat platforms. It delivers 1.4 m panchromatic and 2.8 m multispectral ground sample distance across an 11-band spectral configuration spanning visible, near-infrared, red-edge, water vapour, aerosol, and panchromatic channels (400-900 nm range; individual band centre wavelengths are not available from accessible public sources).^[1]

The swath is 22.2 km; eoPortal references this figure against both 500 km and 540 km altitude, the latter matching the EOSSAT-1 operational orbit.^[1] Both values are stated; no winner can be assigned from available data.

Two DragonEye cameras fly on EOSSAT-1 (ZA-008/AgriSat-1), launched on a Falcon 9 Transporter-6 mission on 3 January 2023 into a 540 km sun-synchronous orbit with a 09:30 local time of descending node. The satellite is operated by EOS Data Analytics for agricultural monitoring.^[1]

Methodology	Evidence class
Vegetation index mapping	Demonstrated

Operator pricing

Pricing not publicly listed by operator

Methods this sensor implements

Demonstrated

None on record.

Capable, undemonstrated

Multispectral optical imaging
[record:eoportal-eossat1] 1.4 m pan and 2.8 m MS imager; eoPortal EOS SAT-1 page cited by the record, but no mission_payloads link exists, so capable not demonstrated.

Topics this relates to

Disaster damage assessment Multispectral optical imaging(capable)well suited

Snow cover Multispectral optical imaging(capable)well suited

Cloud properties Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Coastal erosion Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Crop-type mapping Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Deforestation Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Flooding Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Illegal construction Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Land cover change Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Terrain elevation Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Urban change Multispectral optical imaging(capable)adequate

Crop phenology Multispectral optical imaging(capable)marginal

Crop stress and yield Multispectral optical imaging(capable)marginal

Inland water Multispectral optical imaging(capable)marginal

Mineral exploration Multispectral optical imaging(capable)marginal

Pasture and grazing Multispectral optical imaging(capable)marginal

Wildfire Multispectral optical imaging(capable)marginal

Sources

[1]EOS SAT-1 (AgriSat-1) - eoPortal Mission Profilecommunity2026-05-28

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DragonEye Imager. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/dragoneye (CC BY 4.0)

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@misc{eoatlas:products:sensor:dragoneye,
  title = {DragonEye Imager},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/products/sensor/dragoneye}
}