Kuva Space takes on illicit crop monitoring with hyperspectral satellites and AI

Kuva Space , a Finnish space-technology company developing hyperspectral Earth-observation satellites and AI-powered intelligence solutions, has completed a pilot with a key European security stakeholder demonstrating how hyperspectral satellite data can improve the monitoring of illicit crops at regional scale. The study focused on opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and combined Kuva Space’s Hyperfield imagery with Sentinel-2 data and AI-based classification.