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We faced probably about the worst form of this problem you can face when working for the NRO on ground processing of satellite data. When new orbital sensor pla
by nonameiguess 2y ago
We faced probably about the worst form of this problem you can face when working for the NRO on ground processing of satellite data. When new orbital sensor platforms are developed, new processing software has to be developed in tandem, but the software has to be developed and tested before the platforms are actually launched, so real data is impossible and you have to generate and process synthetic data instead.
Even then, it's an entirely tractable problem. If you understand the physical characteristics and capabilities of the sensors and the basic physics of satellite imaging in general, you simply use that knowledge. You can't possibly know what you're really going to see when you get into space and look, but you at least know the mathematical characteristics the data will have.
The entire problem here is you need a lot of expertise to do this. It's not even expertise I have or any other software developer had or has. We needed PhDs in orbital mechanics, atmospheric studies, and image science to do it. There isn't and probably never will be a "one-click" button to just make it happen, but this kind of thing might honestly be a great test for anyone that truly believes LLMs can reason at a level equal to human experts. Generate a form of data that has never existed, thus cannot have been in your training set, from first principles of basic physics.