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GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery

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63 points marklit | 2 comments | 11 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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linebeck ◴[14 Apr 25 00:09 UTC] No.43676867[source]▶
Cool post. I'd be interested in seeing models likes this deployed to the satellites themselves.

Typically, data gathered from satellites needs to wait for the satellite to do a pass over a dedicated ground station before it can be processed, which is probably somewhere in the US. If you move the processing from the ground station to the satellite, then you 1. Don't have to transmit as much data, 2. Can transmit actionable intelligence much faster. It can be upwards of 90 minutes before a satellite passes over it's ground station. If you could get that down to a few seconds, I could see some serious applications in disaster response.

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1. bbatsell ◴[14 Apr 25 03:25 UTC] No.43677791[source]▶
It’s possible I’m missing visibility into some part of the industry, but I don’t think this has been true for quite some time. There are multiple providers of Ground Segment as a Service that satellite operators can buy radio time from across the globe that are in the billions of yearly revenue. Most satellites are transmitting to the nearest ground stations in one or more networks live and transported over IP unless that capability isn’t required.
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2. everfrustrated ◴[14 Apr 25 17:50 UTC] No.43684106[source]▶
Even AWS sells it. Pretty much a commodity.