Technology: Opium Fields Uncovered from Space with 75% Accuracy Using Hyperspectral Imaging and AI

Sep 16, 2026
Imagine & Machine Vision Europe
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“From orbit, an opium poppy field does not necessarily look very different from a field growing a legal crop,” said Kuva Space. “That makes illicit crop monitoring a difficult Earth observation problem, particularly across large, remote or inaccessible regions where field verification is costly or impossible.”