These Owl fleets — we call them Owls because they’ve got big eyes and they’re wise because they have all this compute on them, more compute on the edge. So they have bigger eyes so they can see more detailed things on the ground — 1 meter resolution rather than 3 meter resolution.
So 10 times higher resolution on the ground. And then in addition, we’re getting the imagery back and analyzed within an hour.
That’s using NVIDIA chips. What’s that useful for, you ask? Well, one use case would be disaster response.
So you imagine after a fire — a fire like the one in L.A. — quickly, the responders want to know what is damaged, which building do they need to go to help evacuate people from, bring relief in some other way.
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