Inovor Technologies wins European Space Agency machine learning competition

Two machine learning experts employed by Adelaide-based Inovor Technologies, Kenny See and Toby Lightheart have won the European Space Agency (ESA) ops-sat machine learning competition, the company has announced.

This challenge saw Team Inovor competing from July to October, coming out the winners in a field of 41 teams. The competition required participants to build and train a machine learning model to perform image classification of land patches that had been captured using ESA’s OPS-SAT spacecraft. The objective was to accurately classify regions such as snow, cloud, natural, river, mountain, water, agricultural, ice, etc with no prior knowledge about the regions.

This is a great demonstration of Inovor Technologies’ capabilities that are being incorporated onboard its Skyris satellites, the company says. The Skyris satellites will undertake ‘smart’ Earth imaging to help deliver customers’ needs across applications like bushfire detection, maritime surveillance and AgTech.

Inovor Technologies provides turnkey spacecraft mission delivery services, as well as specialist engineering services in the electronic warfare domain. It also provides turnkey spacecraft design and development service for customers using its in-house developed satellite buses and is developing two of its own missions: Hyperion is a space-based Space Domain Awareness mission; and Skyris is a “smart” Earth imaging mission.