HIGHLY INTEGRATION OF HYPERSPECTRAL, THERMAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR THE ESA PHISAT-1 MISSION

摘要

Φ-Sat-l is the first scientific and technology initiative of the Earth Observation directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the NewSpace field. Φ-Sat-1 is the result of an enhancement of the FSSCAT mission using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and improved imaging capabilities ofthehyperspectral camera HyperScout-1 VNIR imager. cosine Remote Sensing is leading the development and execution of the demonstration, including the highly integrated spectral imaging in the VNIR and TIR, as well as the integration of state-of-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerators including the first AI algorithms for cloud screening. The HyperScout-2 spectral camera is the successor of HyperScout-1, a miniaturized reflective optical instrument equipped with enhanced processing capabilities, in orbit since February 2018 as part ESA GOMX-4B technology demonstration mission. HyperScout-2 is equipped with a hybrid processing platform composed of a CPU, GPU and VPU. The VPU is a state of art vision processing unit developed by Intel and will be flown in space for the first time as part of HyperScout-2. The platforms suites very well the implementation of experimental programs to investigate the benefit of using Artificial Intelligence fora variety of applications in the field of Earth Observation. The first application that will be run is cloud screening.