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Smart Satellite Sets Its Own Priorities

Posted by michael on from the lucky-it-can't-take-up-skirt-pics dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Currently, satellites take pictures of whatever is in front of their cameras. But hydrologists from the University of Arizona (UA), working with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are creating spacecraft that think for themselves. Their smart software, which is tested on NASA's EO-1 satellite, can be used on all kinds of spacecraft. This software has three components: an image formation module, a science algorithm module, and a continuous planning module. This onboard planner reschedules what to film in conjunction with what the scientific algorithms have detected. This software has already detected floods in Australia and will be adapted to also detect volcano eruptions and changes in ice fields. More details and references are available in this overview, including images of the flood detected by this smart software."

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  1. I can see where this is going by glen604 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nasa: For the last time, will you please stop looking at the nude beaches on Earth and instead look at Pulsar 19834

    Satellite: I'm afraid I can't do that Dave

    1. Re:I can see where this is going by spacerodent · · Score: 4, Funny

      a smart programer would have it forward him all the good pics it gets too "what? she must be over 20 and not even a C cup!! BAD SATELLITE"

  2. Sets its own priorities huh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I tried that in my last job and got canned!

  3. Better get to work on my own module... by psoriac · · Score: 4, Funny

    The "hot chick chick next door suntanning nude in the backyard" detection module, that is.

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  4. Spy satellites too by orthogonal · · Score: 5, Funny

    [The satellite's] onboard planner reschedules what to film in conjunction with what the scientific algorithms have detected. This software has already detected floods in Australia and will be adapted to also detect volcano eruptions and changes in ice fields.

    John Ashcroft has directed engineers at the National Security Agency to design algorithms to follow, in increasing order of priority, the movements of terrorists, dissidents, persons engaged in the sin of dancing, and calico cats.

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  5. no shirt sherlock ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    Currently, satellites take pictures of whatever is in front of their cameras.

    and will continue to do so for a long time.