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Machine Learning

The 3rd Tellus Satellite Challenge! ~ Check out the Winners’ Models ~

The third Tellus Satellite Challenge was held with a mission to "detect the extent of sea ice." In this article, we explain the challenge and introduce the approaches of the winning teams.

New release

Check out sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a concentration! SHIKISAI (GCOM-C) satellite data is released on Tellus!

In this article, we introduce an overview of GCOM-C SHIKISAI, which was installed in Tellus on December 11th, and about how to look at the data of sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a concentration.

How to use

[How to Use Tellus from Scratch] Display AVNIR-2’s ortho rectified image product

The API for the original data from the AVNIR-2 sensor carried on JAXA's ALOS satellite has become available on Tellus! We'll tell you how to use it.

Space business

Key events in the space industry in 2019 — Check out these seven selected topics

Let's check out important events and trends in seven selected areas in the space industry of 2019. Sorabatake's choice of hot topics for 2020 is also mentioned at the end of the article so don't miss it.

Machine Learning

[Kaggle Competition Commentary Series] Identification of Sea Ice and Ships on Satellite Images

This article explains the analytical approaches that the top three winners took at the data science competition, Kaggle, to identify sea ice and ships from satellite images.

Notebooks

What is a satellites’ final task? The achievements of a decommissioned Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS)

Where do retired artificial satellites go when they completed their duties in space? The operation of Super Low Altitude Test Satellite (SLATS) was finalized on October 1, 2019. In this article, we will explain SLATS last job and how to interpret its observation data.

How to use

[How to Use Tellus from Scratch] Clip area from satellite data specified in the GeoJSON format on Jupyter Notebook

Here, we will show you how to clip an area specified in GeoJSON format from satellite data obtained on Jupyter on Tellus. See "Tellusの開発環境でAPI引っ張ってみた (Use Tellus API from the development environment)" for how to use Jupyter Notebook on Tellus.

News

Looking Back on the Space Business up to Heisei Period! 【Weekly Space Business News Roundup 1989/1/8 to 2019/4/30】

“Weekly Space Business News” updated every Monday presents you carefully selected worldwide space business news which came up within a week!

How to use

[How to Use Tellus from Scratch] Obtain high-resolution images from “TSUBAME” (SLATS), using Jupyter Notebook.

We would like to introduce and explain how to obtain high-resolution images from the Super Low Altitude Test Satellite “TSUBAME” (SLATS), using Jupyter Notebook on Tellus.

Space business

Space Development x Venture Company List Japan Version, 2019

This year the Japanese space ventures such as ispace, Axelspace, Infostellar or Umitron, are raising funds to accelerate their business one after another. After a year of such a rapid change, Sorabatake will update and introduce Space Development x Venture Companies List Japan Version, 2017 which we have released before!