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Aircraft Detection
Orbital Insight’s aircraft detection algorithm uses wide area object detection in Pleiades imagery to classify multiple types of commercial passenger and military aircraft at scale. Geospatial intelligence analysts can now conduct pattern of life analyses and activity based intelligence at global airfields of interest to conduct deeper analyses.
Description
Orbital Insight’s aircraft detection algorithm uses wide area object detection in Pleiades imagery to classify multiple types of commercial passenger and military aircraft at scale. Geospatial intelligence analysts can now conduct pattern of life analyses and activity based intelligence at global airfields of interest to conduct deeper analyses.
Technical Description
Orbital Insight’s aircraft detector operates on high resolution imagery from Pléiades Display data. It produces bounding box detections corresponding to the location of planes within a specified input image (GeoTIFF). The bounding box is rectangular and vertically oriented.
Further, this algorithm classifies aircrafts into 5 classes:
- carrier aircraft
- fighter
- helicopter
- small aircraft
- other
Supported workflows:
Data platform:
- Catalog -> Pléiades Display -> Order and get the asset from storage of UP42
- In Projects workflows, Processing from Storage -> DIMAP GeoTIFF conversion -> Raster CRS Conversion (CRS: EPSG:3857) -> Raster Tiling -> Aircraft Detection
Data blocks:
- Pléiades Display (Streaming) -> Raster Tiling -> Aircraft Detection
| General Information | Description |
|---|---|
| Block Type | Processing for Pléiades Aircraft Detection |
| Supported input data | Pléiades Tile (1024x1024px) |
| Output data format | GeoJSON |
| Performance | Algorithm qualified on a large set of data encompassing different types of landscapes worldwide by a third party, with a high level of performances. The algorithm should be applied on airport areas. The algorithm was trained in over 50 countries spanning 6 continents. The training set spans many different conditions, for instance: different times of day, different terrains, different times of year, different configurations and types of planes, etc. Thus, the algorithm is location and direction invariant. |
| Algorithm Training Data Details | Orbital Insight’s Multi-class aircraft detection algorithm counted 54,000 aircraft from 2,500 satellite images across 350 air bases to create a historical baseline of activity and detect ongoing changes. A trained analyst saves significant time in data creation which can now be invested in data analysis. |
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