Flagship projects and news
France 2030 Space Program: Cosmeo
Hytech-imaging leads the “coastal morphology” and “coastal ecosystems” components of the Cosmeo program. The developments in the “decision support” component, led by i-Sea, will be integrated into Littosat-viewer and its next-generation version, Littosat-dashboard.
Beyond the program’s three-year duration, the Cosmeo consortium has set a collective goal of offering commercial coastal intelligence services based on space-based observation.
Bathysat© innovation partnership
Hytech-imaging designs and implements the French Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB) system Bathysat for the French Hydrographic Office (Shom). The Bathysat solution is developed through an innovation partnership between Hytech-imaging, ENSTA Bretagne, iXBlue and Airbus DS.
SCO Littosat South Africa
Building on the deployment of Littosat along the English Channel-Atlantic coast, this project aims to implement a dashboard for monitoring coastal environmental parameters in South Africa. Beyond the launch of innovative satellite products, the project aims to forge partnerships with coastal management stakeholders, complementing existing initiatives and with the support of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA).
SDAMM project
The SDAMM (Decarbonized and Automated Monitoring of Marine Megafauna) project, certified by the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique and supported by Ailes Marines as part of its IBReizh program, enables Hytech-imaging to continue the industrialization of Solar-Stormm, the first prototype of which was developed in 2024 with support from the OFB.
Developed in collaboration with XSun, Solar-Stormm aims to decarbonise the Stormm aerial image acquisition service for digital monitoring of avifauna and marine megafauna. Miniaturised and mounted on a solar-powered drone, Solar-Stormm will provide a silent, low-carbon, long-endurance image acquisition service.
RAPID Calhyb
A new drone-based shallow-water mapping system called Calhyb has been developed by a consortium comprising Hytech-imaging, ENSTA, and SensUp. The Calhyb system has two primary uses: Rapid Environment Assessment (REA) and target detection in coastal areas for defense applications, on the one hand; and hydrographic and environmental mapping in the civilian sector, on the other.
The project is funded by the French Ministry of Defense via the Support Scheme for Dual Innovation (RAPID), and is supported by the Orion naval innovation cluster and the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique.
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