RapidEye Successfully Completes Imaging Of Canadian Growing Season in 2009

By Jim.Robinson|October 14, 2009

Imagery provider RapidEye announced 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 ground-truthing 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.

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 please refer to www.geofarm.com.

For more information about RapidEye visit www.rapideye.de.