Wyvern is looking to increase awareness of the uses of hyperspectral data and has begun an Open Data Program making available some of its data under a Creative Commons license.
That license, CC BY 4.0, requires users to “give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made” according Creative Commons.
Wyvern stated that it wanted stakeholders to use the data “to investigate and solve urgent ecological and environmental issues with quality hyperspectral data.”
The company made an initial release of 25 images “of various land cover features, including forests, wildfire events, pivot and row crop fields, coastal bathymetry, open pit mines, solar farms and well sites, from across the globe.”
Adam O’Connor, Chief Product Officer at Wyvern said, “We are thrilled to launch our Open Data Program, reflecting Wyvern’s commitment to foster innovation in the remote sensing community and demonstrate the power of hyperspectral imagery to help solve some of our most urgent global challenges. We envision the Open Data Program as playing a crucial role in supporting our fellow humans in their time of greatest need by providing access to free Earth observation imagery for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions.”
Wyvern also said that its next satellite, Dragonette-004, the fourth satellite in its constellation would be launching in the first half of 2025. SpaceX has the rideshare Transporter-13 mission currently scheduled for March which is a possible ride to orbit for the Dragonette-004. Another Dragonette is scheduled to be launched later 2025 as well.
Wyvern credited Umbra and their open data philosophy as example. “Making data freely available for researchers and developers to experiment with has been a goal at Wyvern from the start. Inspired especially by the open data philosophy of our friends at Umbra, we believe the geospatial community will collectively benefit from data providers like Wyvern sharing imagery freely.” expanded Callie Lissinna, Co-Founder of Wyvern. “We created Wyvern to make Earth better from space, and we’re proud of how this Open Data Program contributes to that.”
Aside from collecting data from its own satellites, in June 2024 Wyvern expanded a partnership with Loft Orbital to collect data from their satellites.