Iceye to Equip AI on Satellite Data

Decision Made to Develop Automatic Target Recognition System by Next Year

Iceye, which operates a constellation of satellites, has decided to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based automatic target recognition (ATR) system.

On the 13th, Iceye announced, "We have signed a partnership agreement with SATIM, a company that provides AI-based automatic target recognition systems, and plan to officially launch the product by next year."

The automatic target recognition system to be developed by the two companies consists of three solutions that quickly detect and classify ships, aircraft, and vehicles. Iceye expects to start initial pilot operations by the end of this year, enabling the acquisition of extensive real-time information.

In 2018, Iceye succeeded in launching the world's first SAR satellite under 100 kg, Iceye-X1, and currently owns a total of 44 satellites. Over the next two years, they plan to launch more than 20 new satellites annually. This is the world's largest scale consisting solely of microscale SAR satellites. It can provide high-resolution images at a 25 cm level regardless of day or night and weather conditions. Currently, Iceye's satellite data is purchased and used in the United States, Canada, and Brazil.

Iceye also attracted market attention by providing information on Russian troop movements via satellites during the Ukraine war. Oleksii Reznikov, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, stated on social media, "We operated Iceye's microscale satellite for only two days but discovered over 60 Russian military vehicles," adding, "The ability to detect Russian military equipment camouflaged behind forests or obstacles was thanks to synthetic aperture radar (SAR)."

An Iceye official said, "By combining SAR imagery with AI-based SAR image analysis capabilities, decisions can be made using information at the most critical moments."

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