Abstract
The SkySats are Planet’s fleet of 21 high resolution Earth observation satellites. They have sub-meter resolution and are capable of imaging targets at a range of viewing angles. They have been launched into various orbits and have high intra-day revisit rate capabilities and can image regions in areas typically difficult to observe. Recently there have been a series of efforts to improve their image quality. This includes efforts to update their radiometric calibration, non-uniformity correction as well as dark field correction. This work covered everything from designing and testing out new maneuvers for the satellites, creating new processing pipelines to calculate corrections as well as validating the effect of the new corrections. This presentation will discuss the status of this work as well as present some preliminary results.
Improving the Image Quality of the Skysat Constellation
The SkySats are Planet’s fleet of 21 high resolution Earth observation satellites. They have sub-meter resolution and are capable of imaging targets at a range of viewing angles. They have been launched into various orbits and have high intra-day revisit rate capabilities and can image regions in areas typically difficult to observe. Recently there have been a series of efforts to improve their image quality. This includes efforts to update their radiometric calibration, non-uniformity correction as well as dark field correction. This work covered everything from designing and testing out new maneuvers for the satellites, creating new processing pipelines to calculate corrections as well as validating the effect of the new corrections. This presentation will discuss the status of this work as well as present some preliminary results.