# DragonEye Imager
*sensor . products*

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.

## Specifications
- **product status**: operational
- **manufacturer**: dragonfly
- **sensor**: {"instrument_family":"passive-optical","measurement_principle":"passive","spectral_range_nm":{"min":400,"max":900},"spectral_band_count":11,"gsd_m":{"native":1.4,"resampled":2.8},"swath_km":22.2,"bit_depth":12}
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **entity type**: sensor
- **last verified date**: 2026-05-28
- **verified by**: community
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: dragonfly
- **attributes**: {"kind":"sensor","product_status":"operational","manufacturer":"dragonfly","description":"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":"{\"instrument_family\":\"passive-optical\",\"measurement_principle\":\"passive\",\"spectral_range_nm\":{\"min\":400,\"max\":900},\"spectral_band_count\":11,\"gsd_m\":{\"native\":1.4,\"resampled\":2.8},\"swath_km\":22.2,\"bit_depth\":12}","bus":null,"ground_segment":null,"launcher":null,"analysis_service":null,"deployment_context":"orbital"}
- **technology**: optical-spectral-sensing

## Editorial
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).[^eoportal-eossat1]

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.[^eoportal-eossat1] 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.[^eoportal-eossat1]

| Methodology | Evidence class |
|---|---|
| Vegetation index mapping | Demonstrated |

## Sources
- [eoportal-eossat1] | EOS SAT-1 (AgriSat-1) - eoPortal Mission Profile | https://eoportal.org/satellite-missions/eos-sat-1 | tier=community | accessed=2026-05-28

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