FOOL: Addressing Downlink Bottleneck in Satellite Computing with Neural Feature Compression
Belangrijkste concepten
FOOL is an innovative method for Orbital Edge Computing that reduces transfer costs by compressing satellite imagery while preserving prediction performance.
Samenvatting
Nanosatellite constellations face downlink bottleneck due to network contention.
FOOL introduces task-agnostic feature compression method for OEC.
Partitioning high-resolution satellite imagery maximizes throughput and lowers transfer costs.
FOOL allows downlinking over 100x data volume without prior information on downstream tasks.
Evaluation includes intermittently available network connections in low earth orbit and standardized nanosatellite form factors.