STARCOP: Automated and self-improving follow-up verification of detrimental human activity from LEO
Programme
                            Discovery
            Programme Reference
                            EISI_I-2022-00380
            Contractor
                            Trillium Technologies
            Start Date
                            End Date
                            Status
                            Closed
            Country
                            United Kingdom
             
          Description
                            ‘STARCOP’ is an initiative to use machine learning and multiple satellites with diverse detection capabilities to quickly detect methane leaks and send notifications in near real-time. In this project Trillium Technologies developed machine learning models to automatically detect methane in hyperspectral and multispectral imagery. Their hyperspectral model (HyperSTARCOP) is able to capture more than 90% of plumes in test data while reducing the false positive rate by 39% when compared to state-of-the-art models. In addition, the activity shows for the first time automatic multispectral approaches that are able to capture large plumes in Copernicus Sentinel-2 data and WorldView-3 data.
Technology Domain
                            1 - On-board Data Subsystems
                              6 - RF Subsystems, Payloads and Technologies
            Competence Domain
                            3-Avionic Systems
                              5-Radiofrequency & Optical Systems and Products
            Keywords
                            cognitive cloud computing
                              methane leaks
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