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Constellation Tasking

For those clients who require collection and delivery of fresh new imagery data products of a geospatial area-of-interest (AOI) during a specific time-of-interest (TOI) there are two constellation tasking offerings available (Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking). The current order submission methodology for constellation tasking offerings involves the end-user completing Wyvern's new tasking imagery order form then sending the completed form along with area-of-interest (AOI) vector geometry file as attachments to the official "orders@wyvern.space" email address. Wyvern's constellation tasking offerings have a best possible effort business logic where once a tasking order is accepted it will enter a queue then be considered for potential image collection scheduling once the acquisition start date approaches. When a new tasking imagery order is considered, there are a variety of factors that impact whether an upcoming imaging collection opportunity is scheduled including offering tasking priority, upcoming weather forecast, available imaging capacity and competition with other tasking orders. Consequently, Wyvern will make the best possible effort to collect and deliver imagery data products to fulfill the tasking order but there is no guarantee of new imagery data product collection for either constellation tasking offerings. Furthermore, scheduled imaging collection attempts may be automatically rescheduled by the Wyvern system within the time-of-interest (TOI) acquisition window for any given tasking order or cancelled if an imaging restriction is imposed in relation to our commercial remote sensing space system operational license.

DescriptionConstellation TaskingConstellation Tasking
Offering DescriptionStandard TaskingPremium Tasking
Tasking PriorityLow PriorityHigh Priority
Minimum Order Size (MOS)100 km250 km2
Maximum AOI Size Per Order5,000 km25,000 km2
Minimum Collection Window1 Month1 Week
Product Framing LogicArea-BasedArea-Based
Cloud Cover Policy< 20 %< 20 %
Definite Collection ScheduleNo (can be bumped by Premium Tasking)Only If Scheduled
Cloudy Collection RetaskingNo (single shot attempt)Automatic (multiple attempts within TOI window)
Delivery PriorityRegular PriorityRush Priority
Order Cancellation PolicyCancel > 72 HoursCancel > 48 Hours
Default Archive Holdback30 Days30 Days (perpetual available via upgrade)
Collect-to-Delivery LatencyAverage 96 Hours ObjectiveAverage 72 Hours Objective
Order OptionsStandard TaskingPremium Tasking
Data Licensing EULAInternal Use or Public ReleaseInternal Use or Public Release
Permanent Image ExclusivityNot AvailableAvailable Via Upgrade
Spectral RangeStandard VNIR or Extended VNIRStandard VNIR or Extended VNIR

Description and optional configurations for the constellation tasking offerings

Each of the constellation tasking offerings have varying imaging collection parameters and optional order configurations in order to accommodate the varying needs of our clients as delineated in the table below. The two primary parameters for constellation tasking orders are the client's designation of their area-of-interest (AOI) and time-of-interest (TOI) for any given tasking order. The AOI for constellation tasking orders must be single-polygon vector geometry with a total single polygon area that is at least the minimum order size (MOS) for each constellation tasking offering. For the area-of-interest (AOI) definition Wyvern accepts AOIs defined as single-polygon geometry in KML/KMZ, Shapefile, or GeoJSON file formats.

For the time-of-interest (TOI) definition Wyvern accepts constellation tasking orders up to one year out into the future with a lead time of at least 3 days in advance notice after any given order is submitted. In other words, the acquisition start date for any given constellation tasking order must be at least 3 days in advance at the time when new constellation tasking order is submitted to Wyvern. Furthermore, the acquisition end date for any given constellation tasking order cannot exceed one year out into the future at the time when new constellation tasking order is submitted to Wyvern. Since the full order-to- delivery time frame is heavily dependent on varying satellite orbital characteristics such as constellation revisit rate Wyvern does not guarantee any specific order-to-delivery time frames and we encourage all clients to submit their future constellation tasking orders well in advance of the desired acquisition date with a general recommendation that clients submit tasking orders at least one week in advance.

All imagery data products that are generated as a result of product orders for either of the constellation tasking offerings (Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking) are subject to a baseline 30-day archive holdback period before they are cataloged and made available for exploration or purchase by other clients in the Archive Library offering. The constellation tasking offerings have the following tasking priority and imaging collection schedule logic:

  • Standard Tasking: Low tasking priority with no definite collection schedule and tasking request can be preempted or bumped by Premium Tasking orders.
  • Premium Tasking: High tasking priority with definite collection schedule only if Wyvern successfully schedules a tentative imaging collection attempt with product delivered only after QA with cloud cover assessment.

Both of the constellation tasking offerings are area-based which means the ordering methodology and product framing is based on area measurement in units of square kilometres (km2). For constellation tasking offerings (Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking) the imagery data products are ordered and delivered based on single polygon area-of- interest (AOI) per order using area-based product framing. Consequently, Wyvern's product pricing for constellation tasking offerings is characterized as $ / km^2 and unit prices must be multiplied by the total square kilometres area of all imagery data (including any cloudy pixels) within the designated AOI for any given constellation tasking order.

Each of the constellation tasking offerings are subject to a minimum order size (MOS) which is defined as the minimum square kilometres (km2) area required for any given individual discrete tasking order. The minimum order size (MOS) for Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking offering orders is defined as the minimum area size for each individual area-of- interest (AOI) single polygon geometry for any given new tasking imagery order. The minimum order size (MOS) area constraint cannot be satisfied by submitting constellation tasking orders with multiple separate AOI polygons that cumulatively add up to an area size greater than the MOS even if these AOIs are relatively nearby one another geographically. Furthermore, if the size of a new constellation tasking order's AOI is smaller than the MOS for the designated offering then Wyvern will generate a polygon expansion buffer zone that enlarges the AOI to meet the MOS area size requirements. When configuring any given constellation tasking order the end-user has the ability to specify the desired the acceptable Spectral Range based on the hyperspectral imaging capabilities of various satellites in the Dragonette constellation:

  • Standard VNIR: default for best likelihood of tasking collection success leveraging all satellites in the Dragonette constellation including Dragonette-1 which provides 23-band HSI data products and Dragonette-2/3 satellites which provide 31-band HSI data products across the 'Standard' range of the VNIR wavelengths.
  • Extended VNIR: optional constraint of tasking collection limited to only Dragonette satellites that can provide 31-band HSI data products across the 'Extended' range of the VNIR wavelengths.

Data Collection Operations

A new constellation tasking order for an area-of-interest (AOI) that can be covered by one individual image scene resulting from a single imaging collection attempt is acquired and delivered in the most efficient manner. Since both of the constellation tasking offerings (Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking) have area-based product framing the region of the resulting imagery product raster dataset with real imagery data pixels is clipped to the spatial extent of the AOI. Furthermore, the cloud cover policy also applies to the area of real imagery data within the AOI spatial extent for any given constellation tasking order. In this scenario Wyvern's invoice billing logic is based on the total area of the imagery data successfully collected and delivered within the AOI (including any cloudy pixels).

For a constellation tasking order of an area-of-interest (AOI) of a fairly large area Wyvern will collect multiple image scenes over the product order time-of-interest (TOI) period via multiple collection attempts in order to deliver several separate image scenes to cover the relatively large AOI. In order to acquire new imagery over the entire large AOI multiple image scenes are collected in a manner that covers the large area in the most efficient manner possible which may involve multiple scenes with varying size from minimum scene size up to maximum scene size extended strips and spatial overlap of scenes of approximately 10% but the size of the scene overlap area will vary for any given constellation tasking order. In this scenario Wyvern's invoice billing logic is based on the total area of the imagery data successfully collected and delivered within the AOI (including any cloudy pixels) where clients are only charged once for imagery within any scene overlap regions.

Furthermore, for any given large AOI tasking order the same Cloud Cover < 20% policy still applies where Wyvern will make a best possible effort to deliver at least 80% of the ordered AOI as cloud free as determined by Wyvern's quality assurance (QA) system. In the case when multiple image scenes are delivered to cover the large AOI the cloud cover policy still applies to the overall AOI where all cloud-free pixels delivered across all separate image scenes are considered as valid imagery data to satisfy the cloud cover policy requirement.

Finally, if the tasking order Acquisition End Date is reached before Wyvern is able to collect & deliver enough cloud-free imagery data to cover the AOI in alignment with product specifications and cloud cover policy then Wyvern's customer operations will contact the client to discuss a possible extension of the tasking order collection period. If the large AOI is not collected in full before the conclusion of the tasking order collection timeframe then Wyvern will only invoice for the area of the imagery product scenes successfully delivered.

Cloud Cover Policy

The cloud cover policy for both of the constellation tasking offerings (Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking) is Cloud Cover < 20% which means that within the ordered area-of- interest (AOI) the amount of opaque cloudy pixels as characterized & measured by Wyvern's quality assurance (QA) system is less than 20% within the AOI. Furthermore, for every imaging collection attempt that does not align with the Cloud Cover < 20% policy clients can request the opportunity to review the associated thumbnail image in order to assess if key regions within the AOI happen to include usable HSI imagery data of specific locations, features, objects, facilities, etc. of interest that could be successfully visualized or analysed. Based on the thumbnail image review if a client decides this cloudy imagery collection does contain usable data and they wish to purchase this imagery data product then the client can choose to accept delivery of the imagery with cloud cover exceeding 20% with delivery of the full HSI data product that covers the order's AOI with invoice billing logic based on total area of imagery data within the AOI (including all cloudy pixels).

Standard Tasking orders are single shot collection attempts, which means if the initial imaging collection attempt does not align with the Cloud Cover < 20% policy the order will terminate as unfulfilled expired status. If the client desires another imaging collection attempt, a new Standard Tasking order must be placed. Premium Tasking includes automatic cloudy collection re-tasking so when an imaging collection attempt does not meet the Cloud Cover < 20% policy the Wyvern scheduler system will automatically re-schedule a new collection attempt within the constraints of available capacity and weather forecast up until the expiration of the order's acquisition date range. If a Premium Tasking order is not able to be fulfilled with an imagery data product that aligns with the Cloud Cover < 20% policy then the order will expire as unfulfilled expired status. If the client desires another tasking collection attempt, a new Premium Tasking order must be placed.

Order Cancellation Policy

Wyvern's order cancellation policy applies to both constellation tasking offerings (Standard Tasking & Premium Tasking) and does not apply to other offerings (e.g., order cancellation is not applicable to Archive Library orders). The order cancellation policy is defined as the minimum notice time frame before any order's acquisition start date that an order cancellation must be submitted to Wyvern for the order to be canceled and not charged.

Order cancellation requests must be sent via email to 'orders@wyvern.space' before the cancellation policy cutoff time frame. Order cancellations submitted after the minimum notice time frame will not be honoured and any tasking imagery data products that are collected for the order are delivered and invoiced accordingly. The order cancellation policy for each constellation tasking offering is the following:

  • Standard Tasking: order cancellation must be received > 72 hours before acquisition start date
  • Premium Tasking: order cancellation must be received > 48 hours before acquisition start date