Edge SpAIce | Unleashing AI potential to foster space accessibility and novel Earth Observation services creation.

Summary
"Satellites have become one of most prominent technologies for Earth Observation, progressively attracting large investments from both the private and public sector and potentially becoming the next life-changing trend in world economics. Resulting from technological advancements and gradual reduction in manufacturing and in-orbit deployment costs, data captured drastically increased along, revealing significant impairments in current data management infrastructure to maximise associated added value. With the purpose of achieving a more efficient data management to further approach novel EO applications requiring continuous data flow between capturing and processing, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deployment ""at the edge"" has been investigated as valid approach to allow autonomous and reliable data payload and latency reduction while keeping high added value from data captured. However, deployment of accurate DNNs models present several limitations, with the major ones being high computational power and cumbersome architectures. In this project proposal, Edge SpAIce develops an extremely efficient approach to resize complex DNNs while ensuring compatibility requirements for on-board satellites hardware are met. With this scope, Edge SpAIce will further target a challenging demonstration of Edge-AI potential by design and deployment of a DNN for marine plastic litter remote monitoring from in-orbit representative satellite, paving the way towards next generation EO and moving European leadership in the global space market."
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135358
Start date: 01-12-2023
End date: 30-11-2026
Total budget - Public funding: - 2 453 522,00 Euro
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"Satellites have become one of most prominent technologies for Earth Observation, progressively attracting large investments from both the private and public sector and potentially becoming the next life-changing trend in world economics. Resulting from technological advancements and gradual reduction in manufacturing and in-orbit deployment costs, data captured drastically increased along, revealing significant impairments in current data management infrastructure to maximise associated added value. With the purpose of achieving a more efficient data management to further approach novel EO applications requiring continuous data flow between capturing and processing, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deployment ""at the edge"" has been investigated as valid approach to allow autonomous and reliable data payload and latency reduction while keeping high added value from data captured. However, deployment of accurate DNNs models present several limitations, with the major ones being high computational power and cumbersome architectures. In this project proposal, Edge SpAIce develops an extremely efficient approach to resize complex DNNs while ensuring compatibility requirements for on-board satellites hardware are met. With this scope, Edge SpAIce will further target a challenging demonstration of Edge-AI potential by design and deployment of a DNN for marine plastic litter remote monitoring from in-orbit representative satellite, paving the way towards next generation EO and moving European leadership in the global space market."

Status

SIGNED

Call topic

HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-11

Update Date

12-03-2024
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Horizon Europe
HORIZON.2 Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
HORIZON.2.4 Digital, Industry and Space
HORIZON.2.4.0 Cross-cutting call topics
HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01
HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-11 End-to-end Earth observation systems and associated services
HORIZON.2.4.10 Space, including Earth Observation
HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01
HORIZON-CL4-2023-SPACE-01-11 End-to-end Earth observation systems and associated services