Phi-Sat-1
From Spacefaring
Phi-Sat-1 is a CubeSat mission from the European Space Agency (ESA) that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Earth observation. The mission will collect a large number images from space in the visible, near-infrared and thermal-infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, and then filter out the images which are covered with clouds using AI algorithms. This reduces the number of images to be downlinked from space and therefore improve efficiency. The Phi-Sat-1 mission has two main objectives:
- To acquire images in the visible, the near-infrared and thermal infrared regions
- Demonstration of AI inference engine for cloud detection demonstrating the capabilities of the Myriad chip