AI over the Arctic

Flying over the Arctic, SpIRIT captured this image of a snowy white wonderland below. SpIRIT’s high inclination orbit gives the satellite a prime view of the Antarctic and Arctic polar ice caps that can be captured and processed by the imaging system we have developed. These regions of low contrast provide a nice challenge for the classification algorithms running on the edge that we are testing with SpIRIT’s onboard GPU enabled AI payload.

This image was captured with SpIRIT’s Loris optical imaging payload on the 2nd April 2025.