US 2017/0250751 A1Published application

System for planetary-scale analytics

AssigneeSatellogic Overseas, Inc. (BVI)

InventorsEmiliano Kargieman, Gerardo Gabriel Richarte

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Abstract

A smart satellite system is capable of decision making and prioritization on the fly to optimize the use of downlink bandwidth to deliver prioritized data based upon opportunity and the resources of available payloads. By providing a satellite system with substantial processing power and a level of autonomy, the satellite is able to make decisions about capturing imagery data, including image data processing, object detection, image segmentation, and re-orientation of the satellite based upon the opportunity, from the satellite's perspective, for capturing image data of areas or objects of interest. Through the use of machine learning and in-orbit image analysis, the satellite may transmit only a subset of the captured images, portions of the captured images, or the result of image analysis, thereby efficiently using the downlink communication channel.

Claims25

Dependent claims

An orbital satellite system, comprising:

one or more sensors;
one or more processors;
memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory including one or more modules that are executable by the processors to:
receive, from a ground-based device, a request for data, the request for data including a request to determine one or more parameters relating to at least one object within a particular geographic region;
capture, by a first sensor of the one or more sensors, one or more images associated with the particular geographic region;
determine that a first subset of images of the one or more images provides an unobstructed view of the particular geographic region;
capture, based at least in part upon the first subset of images providing an unobstructed view, a second set of images, the second set of images captured by a second sensor having a higher resolution that the first sensor;
determine that the second set of images includes data associated with the at least one object;
determine the one or more parameters associated with the request for data, based at least in part on the second set of images;
and
transmit, to the ground-based device, the one or more parameters.

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Facts

Application: 15/445,813Filed 28 Feb 2017
Priority: 29 Feb 2016
Published: 31 Aug 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04B 7/18513
Systems using a satellite or space-based relay: transmission in a satellite or space-based system
G06V 10/16
Image acquisition: using multiple overlapping images; Image stitching
G06V 10/25
Image preprocessing: determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI]
G06V 10/40
Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding: extraction of image or video features