ORCASat

September 2, 2023

Optical Reference Calibration Satellite. A 2U CubeSat designed and built by students at the University of Victoria. Launched aboard CRS-26 from Kennedy Space Center to the ISS on Nov. 26, 2022, then deployed to low earth orbit on Dec. 29, 2022. Atmospheric re-entry completed on July 7, 2023.

Satellite Image Classifier

April 13, 2023

Trained Convolutional Neural Network to identify locations likely to contain mineral deposits on the Earth’s surface using NASA Landsat images. Training labels for supervised learning were generated programmatically using a corresponding dataset of known mineral deposits. The Landsat dataset is preprocessed by downsampling to a resolution of 512x512