The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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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.