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GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery

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63 points marklit | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 12:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.192s | 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. fnands ◴[14 Apr 25 07:43 UTC] No.43678990[source]▶
> It can be upwards of 90 minutes before a satellite passes over it's ground station.

Planet Pelican will have the ability to communicate with other satellites, meaning you don't necessarily need a ground station: https://www.planet.com/products/pelican/

> 1. Don't have to transmit as much data

There is definitely a bit of a move to do some work on the actual satellite, depending on the use case. This is pretty doable if you have a very specific use case for which you can optimize this, but gets a little bit harder if you have to have it work for every possible use case.