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STARCOP: Automated and self-improving follow-up verification of detrimental human-activity from LEO

Fri, 01/27/2023 - 18:06
Start Date: 
2022
Programme: 
Discovery
End Date: 
2022
Programme Reference: 
EISI_I-2022-00380
Country: 
United Kingdom
Contractor: 
Trillium Technologies
Status: 
Closed
Description: 

‘STARCOP’ is an initiative to use ML and multiple satellites of diverse detection capabilities to quickly detect methane leaks onboard and notify them in near-real-time. In this project we have developed ML models for automatic detection of methane in hyperspectral and multispectral imagery. Our hyperspectral model (HyperSTARCOP) is able to capture more than 90% of plumes in our test data while reducing the false positive rate by 39% when compared to state-of-the-art models. In addition, we show for the first time automatic multispectral approaches that are able to capture large plumes in Sentinel-2 data and WorldView-3 data.

Application Domain: 
Earth Observation
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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