Tapio
Friberg
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
ICEYE
Tapio Friberg is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at ICEYE. Owning and operating the world’s largest constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites leads to the world’s fastest-growing backlog of SAR images. His interests include all techniques that make managing it easier, including HPC. He’s currently working primarily with self-supervised foundation models and solving flood modeling-related inverse problems with remote sensing observations and Monte Carlo methods. Iceye Oy is a Finnish space technology company founded in 2014, which develops a service using microsatellites equipped with SAR radars, which can provide near-real-time radar images regardless of time and weather conditions.
09 November 2023 12:00 - 12:30
Petaflop scale Monte Carlo methods for satellite image sensor fusion
ICEYE owns and operates the world’s largest constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites. This allows us to reliably capture imagery from unexpected natural catastrophe events such as floods, enabling rapid response. However, a single satellite acquisition might take tens of seconds while flood events might last up to days, leaving significant gaps in the timelines of said events. In this talk, we’ll talk about techniques to propagate spatial and temporal information from satellite acquisitions via fitting models to earth observation and auxiliary data streams such as social media and river gauge data. With modern software and hardware, we can scale our techniques to create the thousands of flood simulations necessary to find promising candidate simulations to fit our observations, while the combination of compute and independent direct observations can be used to fill in the gaps.