The imaging company is hoping to better understand Earth using infrared information from Earth’s surface
If everything works out according to plan, the computer-vision technology that Francis Doumet and Migel Tissera’s company began working toward in a co-working space in 2018 will be on board the International Space Station next year.
The barely five-year journey from co-working space to outer space, however, is not nearly as quick as the journey that the data collected with Metaspectral’s technology from the ISS are expected to take: just 15 minutes to beam back to Earth. “We actually see what humans can’t see,” he said in a recent interview at the downtown Vancouver co-working space in which Metaspectral was first launched. Across the entire spectrum of light, including beyond what’s visible, every material has a unique “spectral signature” that can identify its composition with great specificity.
Prof. Laefer likens hyperspectral’s rise to that of light detection and ranging technology, the cost of which has fallen greatly in recent years with increasing use in autonomous-vehicle testing and now smartphones. With broader adoption, “you get this economy of scale,” she said. Mr. Doumet and Mr. Tissera came upon Metaspectral’s business model rather indirectly. Mr. Tissera was living in Australia late last decade, trying to watch UFC matches, but growing frustrated at the streaming quality. On one routine trip back to Vancouver in 2018, he encountered Mr. Doumet at the co-working space and pitched him on a video-compression algorithm that would compress and stream data in ways that would be less interruptive to, say, UFC streams.
Despite patenting their own data-compression algorithm, Metaspectral’s staff have since decided to use an open-source one developed by space authorities but to implement it in their own proprietary way.
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