Sky Sat 1 Presentation

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1 Dirk Robinson, PhD Director of Image Engineering [email protected] JACIE 2012 Annual Workshop This presentation includes “basic marketing information on function or purpose or general system descriptions” as defined in the ITAR (Sec. 120.10, Article (5) and Sec. 120.11) and therefore is not controlled ITAR information. Thursday, April 19, 12

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Dirk Robinson, PhDDirector of Image Engineering

[email protected]

JACIE 2012 Annual Workshop

This presentation includes “basic marketing information on function or purpose or general system descriptions” as defined in the ITAR (Sec. 120.10, Article (5) and Sec. 120.11) and therefore is not controlled ITAR information.

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For Public Disclosure

The Skybox VisionA scalable platform to deliver analytics of daily

global activity - derived from mining timely satellite imagery & video

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$91MFunded by Khosla Ventures and

Bessemer Ventures

Skybox By The Numbers

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1 x 1Consistent & timely high quality data

7Months to scheduled launch

of SkySat-165# Employees

2009 Incorporation

75Number of space missions

supported by the team

Proprietary & ConfidentialFor Public Disclosure

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215 automobiles

55,245 gallonsof oil crude

6,254containers

43%damage

-15%vegetation

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The Skybox Approach

• Cutting-edge commercial sensors

• Ground processing trade off

• Technology improves each generation

• Scalability

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The Skybox Imaging Architecture

• Ritchey-Chretian silicon carbide telescope

• Low-noise, high-frame rate 5.5 Mpix CMOS imaging detectors

• Onboard image correction

• Real-time JPEG 2000 image compression

• Proprietary ground-based synthetic TDI

• Web scale Hadoop-based production platform

2-Dimensional Detectors

Telescope Ground Processing Software

First meter-class high-performance EO platform using 2-dimensional sensor

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Skybox Spectral Bands

400 500 600 700 800 900

Panchromatic

Blue

Green

Red

Near Infrared

Spectral Bands

Pan-sharpened CIR

Pan-sharpened RGB• Spectral bands designed to support natural “photographic” color reproductions

• Minimal color ‘halos’ from pan-sharpening

• Supports vegetation index calculations (NDVI)

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• Pushframe architecture

• Capture many overlapping 2D images

• Stitch & blend on the ground

• Multiple measurements for every ground point

• Improved SNR & resolution

1/2 Ground Speed

Camera 2

Camera 1

Camera 3

Proprietary Ground-Based Synthetic TDI

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• Pushframe architecture

• Capture many overlapping 2D images

• Stitch & blend on the ground

• Multiple measurements for every ground point

• Improved SNR & resolution

1/2 Ground Speed

Camera 2

Camera 1

Camera 3

Proprietary Ground-Based Synthetic TDI

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• Pushframe architecture

• Capture many overlapping 2D images

• Stitch & blend on the ground

• Multiple measurements for every ground point

• Improved SNR & resolution

Proprietary Ground-Based Synthetic TDI

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Skybox Products of 2013

Basic Image Product

• Set of images

• Radiometrically corrected Pan & MSI

• Tiff or J2k

• Geometry files (Exterior Orientation, Sensor Model, RPCs)

• Metadata (Collection data, Image Quality Masks)

Basic Video Product

• H.264 video file

• Geometry files (Exterior Orientation, Sensor Model, RPCs)

• Metadata (Collection data)

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SkySat-1Scheduled to launch Q4 2012

Questions/Opportunities?

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