AI-Based On-Board Maritime Object Detection for Earth Observation Payload Data Reduction on Versal Embedded Hardware
arXiv:2610.12182v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Very-high-resolution Earth-observation satellites acquire more data than they can store and downlink, while in maritime surveillance the vessels cover a tiny fraction of each scene. We study onboard vessel detection as a way to select what is downlinked, which reduces the data according to its content rather than coding every pixel; it is complementary to conventional onboard compression. The work follows three axes. (i) Data and algorit…