Planet runs AI object detection onboard Pelican-4 satellite, cutting Earth-imaging latency

Reuters04-07
Planet runs AI object detection onboard Pelican-4 satellite, cutting Earth-imaging latency
  • Planet ran AI-driven object detection onboard Pelican-4 satellite, marking shift from data capture to in-orbit inference.
  • Test on March 25, 2026, used NVIDIA Jetson Orin module to detect airplanes minutes after imaging over Alice Springs, Australia.
  • First onboard detection delivered 80% accuracy on raw imagery; model precision and recall remain under refinement.
  • Program targets near-real-time insights for Pelican constellation, aiming to cut customer response times from hours to minutes.
  • Roadmap calls for end-to-end in-orbit processing, including geo-rectification, with GeoTIFF and GeoJSON outputs generated in isolated Docker containers.


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