The paper demonstrates a three-phase 'summarize first, download later' satellite downlink protocol using onboard vision-language models on a Jetson, showing large payload-size reductions and moderate VQA accuracy.
Theϕ-sat-1 mission: The first on-board deep neural network demonstrator for satellite earth observation,
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Summarize First, Download Later: Onboard VLMs for Bandwidth-Efficient Earth Observation
The paper demonstrates a three-phase 'summarize first, download later' satellite downlink protocol using onboard vision-language models on a Jetson, showing large payload-size reductions and moderate VQA accuracy.