Dragonette-1
5.3 m hyperspectral imagery — 24 bands across green, yellow, red, red edge, NIR
When to use
- Mineral identification using narrow-band absorption features
- Vegetation health and species discrimination beyond standard NDVI
- Water quality (chlorophyll, turbidity, suspended solids)
- Workflows previously requiring airborne hyperspectral
When it's the wrong fit
- Sub-5m resolution work
- Wide-area surveys (slow revisit)
- High positional accuracy requirements (25–100 m CE90)
Processing levels
Five processing levels. Levels 1–3 are applied by default on every order; pansharpening (4) runs automatically when the sensor has a panchromatic band; mosaicking (5) runs automatically when the AOI spans multiple scenes. Specify any level explicitly if you need to override the default.
| L | Output | What's applied | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Raw | Digital numbers (sensor counts) with no calibration or geometric correction. Delivered as unprojected GeoTIFF with sensor metadata. | On request |
| 1 | Orthorectified | Geometric correction onto a DEM. Every pixel sits at its true ground position. Customer-supplied GCPs accepted at no extra cost. | Default |
| 2 | Surface reflectance | TOA radiometric correction plus atmospheric correction. Output is the actual fraction of light reflected by the ground, comparable across dates, sensors, and sun angles. | Default |
| 3 | Pansharpened | Not applicable — this sensor has no panchromatic band. | N/A |
| 4 | Mosaicked | Seamless multi-scene composite over the AOI with ML cloud/cirrus masking and custom seam-line path-finding. Applied automatically when the AOI spans more than one scene. | Default* |
*Mosaicking applies when the AOI spans more than one scene. Single-scene orders skip it.
Water masks, tree masks, glint handling, lidar-aligned reflectance, aquatic atmospheric correction, region-tuned models — anything your downstream pipeline requires. Quoted with the order.
Specifications
| General | |
| Provider | Wyvern |
| Country | Canada |
| System type | Satellite |
| Product type | Hyperspectral |
| Availability | Tasking and catalog |
| Available since | 2023 |
| Sensor | |
| Resolution | All bands: 5.30 m |
| Bit depth | 12-bit acquired, 32-bit float delivered |
| Swath width | 20 km |
| Off-nadir range | 0°–20° |
| Constellation | 1 satellite (Dragonette-1) |
| Orbit | Sun-synchronous, 500 km |
| Revisit | Every 2 days — in practice 2–5 days |
| Acquisition modes | Mono |
| Reference | |
| CRS | Geographic-WGS84 |
| Positional accuracy | Location-dependent: 25–100 m CE90 absolute |
| Processing levels | Tasking: Primary, Georectified, Orthorectified (all TOA). Catalog: Level 1B (TOA only) |
| Tasking and catalog conditions | |
| Minimum AOI width | tasking 3 km wide · catalog 3 km wide |
| Minimum charge area | tasking 100 km² · archive Whole scene |
| Geographic restrictions | None — global |
Spectral bands
| Band | Designation and wavelength |
|---|---|
| Band 1 | 503 nm (20.1 nm FWHM) |
| Band 2 | 510 nm (20.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 3 | 519 nm (20.8 nm FWHM) |
| Band 4 | 535 nm (21.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 5 | 549 nm (22.0 nm FWHM) |
| Band 6 | 570 nm (22.8 nm FWHM) |
| Band 7 | 584 nm (23.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 8 | 600 nm (24.0 nm FWHM) |
| Band 9 | 614 nm (24.6 nm FWHM) |
| Band 10 | 635 nm (25.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 11 | 649 nm (26.0 nm FWHM) |
| Band 12 | 660 nm (26.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 13 | 669 nm (26.8 nm FWHM) |
| Band 14 | 679 nm (27.2 nm FWHM) |
| Band 15 | 690 nm (27.6 nm FWHM) |
| Band 16 | 699 nm (28.0 nm FWHM) |
| Band 17 | 711 nm (28.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 18 | 722 nm (28.9 nm FWHM) |
| Band 19 | 734 nm (29.4 nm FWHM) |
| Band 20 | 750 nm (30.0 nm FWHM) |
| Band 21 | 764 nm (30.6 nm FWHM) |
| Band 22 | 782 nm (31.3 nm FWHM) |
| Band 23 | 799 nm (32.0 nm FWHM) |
Delivery manifest
Each order delivers as a single archive containing the following files.
dragonette-001_[order_id].zip
├── data/ 23 band files, GeoTIFF, 12-bit acquired
├── metadata.xml acquisition parameters, calibration coefficients
├── metadata.txt human-readable summary
├── masks/ cloud, quality, transparency
└── overviews/ JPEG quicklook
Compare with
Closest alternatives by resolution and product type.
| Spec | Dragonette-1 | Dragonette-2/3 | Gaofen-1 | Gaofen-2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolution | 5.30 m | 5.30 m | 2 m | 80 cm |
| Provider | Wyvern | Wyvern | CNSA / China RESDC | CNSA / China RESDC |
| Country | Canada | Canada | China | China |
| Type | Hyperspectral | Hyperspectral | Multispectral | Multispectral |
| Availability | Tasking + catalog | Tasking + catalog | Tasking + catalog | Tasking + catalog |
Spectral indices
108 spectral indices are compatible with Dragonette-1. The most-used: NDVI,EVI,NDWI,SAVI,NDRE,GNDVI,MSAVI. See the full spectral profile for the complete list and band mappings.
Ready to order Dragonette-1?
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