Tracasa offers, free of charge, 500,000 km2 of super-resolution images from the Sentinel-2 satellites of the Ukraine area, affected since the end of last February by the attack by Russian troops. The public company of the Government of Navarra, with the aim of contributing to the information and analysis of the situation in the area, makes images of the area available to interested entities and institutions that can be used for remote sensing.
Tracasa achieves, thanks to its SENX4 technology, multiply by four the resolution of the images from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites, going from 10 meters per pixel in each image to 2.5 meters per pixel. This milestone in the field of super-resolution satellite images is possible thanks to the work carried out by the Navarrese company with deep learning techniques, with which it manages to improve all the metrics previously obtained in this area.
To achieve this level of super resolution, the R&D&i team, Tracasa’s corporate service and Tracasa Instrumental, has used deep learning in the photogrammetry environment, with deep learning algorithms that allow imitating and improving human capacity in the processing and recognition of patterns in images.
“This tool provides an outstanding leap in image superresolution of the Sentinel-2 satellites, which can be applied to jobs in multiple sectors: information, land management, emergencies, security… As a public company we have a very strong commitment to society and, in a situation as serious as the one that Europe is currently experiencing, we hope that this tool can be useful”, explains Mikel Irujo, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tracasa and Counselor for Economic and Business Development of the Government of Navarra.
The R&D team of Tracasa and Tracasa Instrumental, specialized in the development of cutting-edge solutions, especially in the field of artificial intelligence and data science, has recently reached the podium in two international AI competitions organized by the AI4EO platform, dependent on the European Space Agency, and which have brought together more than 100 participating teams from around the world in each edition: Air Quality and Health and Enhanced Sentinel-2 Agriculture.
“In line with the Government of Navarra’s commitment to innovation and digital transformation, the corporate R&D&i team is an excellent benchmark in data science and artificial intelligence, developing innovative solutions that can be used in practice in our society”, says Juan Cruz Cigudosa, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tracasa Instrumental and Minister of University, Innovation and Digital Transformation of the Government of Navarra.
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