AI-Based On-Board Maritime Object Detection for Earth Observation Payload Data Reduction on Versal Embedded Hardware

Key points

• Very-high-resolution Earth-observation satellites acquire more data than they can store and downlink, while in maritime surveillance the vessels cover a tiny fraction of each scene.1
• On our dense harbor and coastal scenes, tiles keep 98% of the vessels with 29% of the scene volume, and crops 83% with 3%.1

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• [1]AI-Based On-Board Maritime Object Detection for Earth Observation Payload Data Reduction on Versal Embedded Hardware
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 03:48 PM

  We study onboard vessel detection as a way to select what is downlinked, which reduces the data according to its content rather than coding every pixel; it is complementary to conventional onboard compression.

  Very-high-resolution Earth-observation satellites acquire more data than they can store and downlink, while in maritime surveillance the vessels cover a tiny fraction of each scene.

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