Space/astronomy
Optronics : applications

The use of optronics in space and astronomy involves an ever-increasing number of projects, leading to the creation of increasingly complex instrumentation, whether for observing the Earth from space, for observing space from the ground or from a satellite, or for exploring or discovering other planets...

• Earth observation optronics

  Numerous optronic systems mounted on board satellites observe the Earth from altitudes typically between 5,00 and 1,000 km to obtain images that can be used for: cartography (updating maps), agriculture (monitoring vegetation, forecasting harvests, deforestation zones, identifying plantations and ripening stages for monitoring declarations under the Common Agricultural Policy), environmental monitoring (evolution of continental ecosystems, radiative transfer between Earth and space), meteorology,...