Enabling & Support
Using AI for Earth observation
A study funded by the Discovery element of ESA's Basic Activities used the OPS-SAT satellite to demonstrate deep learning in orbit. Use-cases include the detection of deforestation and ships in satellite images. Deforestation is a powerful demonstration of the service as change detection requires analysing individual pixels on board the satellite and storing and handling reference data. Solutions developed for the deforestation use case in a previous project were validated in this study in a real environment in orbit.
