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Capella Week 8 H4D Stanford 2016
1. Capella Space
We are providing low-cost SAR imagery satellite constellation with a high revisit rate.
Payam Banazadeh
Aerospace/Business
Timon Ruban
Machine Learning
Isaac Matthews
Aerospace
Jose Ignacio del Villar
Business
# interviews
this week:
2 users
1 buyers
5 experts
# total
interviews:
85
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2. MVP: Detection of ships at sea
SAR image of 3x3 meter resolution. Taken in SF Bay out of Treasure Island on 12/12/2011 at 14:23:52. Acquisition ended at 14:24:00
SAR Image
Processed image (white means
ship, black means no ship
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3. Experiment #1 - Indonesia cares about IUU
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
Indonesia has an illegal fishing problem, but it actually cares about solving this
problem
Interviewed state department experts in Indonesia and IUU
Indonesia is complicated. There is a coordination issue between Navy, Coast Guard,
department of justice, and police. They are over subscribed with “donors” and dont
have the capacity to process all the help
Interviewing ICITAP, FAD, EAP, and (hopefully) someone in Fisheries ministry
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4. Illegal Fishing -- Maritime Domain Awareness
Navy Police
Fisheries
Ministries
Department of
Justice
(ICITAP)
East Asia Pacific
Bureau
FAD -- u.s.
Commercial
sector
Indonesia desk -
state department
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5. Experiment #2 - Coast Guard cont’d - MVP & Problem scope
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
Drug smuggling is a big problem and a lot of resources are spent on solving it.
Our MVP (AIS overlayed with SAR images) is helpful for Law Enforcement Duty Officers
Talk to Intelligence Analyst and Chief of Law Enforcement @ USCG
@Scope
@MVP
Understand who the decision makers are? From whom do we need buy-in/support to deploy our
technology? => Where do we continue the conversations, once the technology becomes ready?
$1.3-1.5 billion dollar budgeted for statutory mission “Drug Interdiction”
In 2014: 108,534lbs of Marihuana and 198,636lbs of Cocaine seized by USCG
it’s an additional tool in the analyst’s tool belt. But it can be the critical one!
Recreational boats without AIS are a problem - looking at patterns
(who races through fishing grounds) can help identify illegal activity
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6. Experiment #3- Imaging can reduce piracy and oil fraud - Africa
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
Earth imaging of Eastern (Gulf of Aden) and Western (Gulf of Guinea) maritime
borders will support global efforts to reduce Somali piracy and Nigerian oil
bunkering specifically
Interviewing Stanford Professors (Somalia - Laitin, Acharya), policy makers, NGOs,
and other personal research
Interview experts at State Department, World Bank, African Development Bank,
World Economic Forum, Pula Group, Former Ambassador, Stanford professors
Globally, 246 reported incidents of piracy, all 5 cases of kidnapping/ransom off coast of Nigeria (IMB-
PRC); 0 Somali attacks reported in 2015
Oil theft/fraud costing Nigeria $1.5B/month (650,000bbl/day)
Unresolved: Heightened patrols in Gulf of Aden; need better understanding of claimed losses ~$3B/yr
in spite of reduction in piracy
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7. Experiment #4 - Hedge Funds as potential customer
Hypothesis
Experiment
Result
Action
Hedge Funds are still a potential customer that we should actively pursue
Interviewed Jack Kim, Chief Risk Officer at Data Capital Management
Imagery is not regularly used in the financial area. It serves as an ancillary piece in
their algorithms. Also, financial firms will want to create the algorithms in-house (if
everyone has the algorithms there is no edge)
Hedge Funds are not a customer we should focus at the moment. Even if they could
be a customer in the future, our pivot to launch in equatorial orbits decreases the
value they could get from our technology
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8. • Deploy 1 to 3 satellites
and sell the images by
September 2017.
• Finish the deployment
of 40 satellites by
2020.
• Construction of
payload for testing
• Development of image
analysis algorithms
• Construction of
satellite under
required constraints
• Data Analytics
providers (Orbital
Insight, Omni Earth,
etc)
• Sponsors (military and
commercial)
• Satellite structure
providers
• Satellite component
providers
• Orbital
communication
providers
• Satellite launch
providers
• Get a customer in a country in the Equatorial orbit
(Government)
• Get commercial customers interested enough in our tech
• The DHS and other government departments adopt our
technology:
• - USCG: to thwart drug trafficking from Ecuador and Colombia
• Summer ground demonstration: $50k
• First satellite: $6 million (including operations)
• Subsequent satellites: $3 million each
• Final constellation: $150 million total over 3 years
• Funding to perform
payload test during
Summer 2016
• Government advocacy
for our technology:
DHS
• Contacts in the
Equatorial countries’
government agencies.
Beneficiaries
Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Commercial
Satellite imagery resellers
Illegal fishing in Indonesia
Oil tankering in Nigeria
Stop pirating at sea in
Somalia
Key Partners
USCG
Law Enforcement DO
Information Watch Officer
USCG
- Stop more boats carrying
drugs from
Ecuador/Colombia
- Reduce the cost of drug
intervention operations
NGA
Provide better intelligence
to other agencies/services
Commercial
Satellite Imagery Resellers:
they can offer better and
more diverse products
Illegal fishing: tracking of
ships that are doing
suspicious activities at sea.
Better law enforcement.
NGA
Intelligence Analysts
Services in the DoD??
SOCOM
Government sector driving
demand (Indonesia, Nigeria,
Ecuador, Colombia)
Coast Guard Deputy
Commandant for
Operations (CG-DCO)
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9. Products
& Services
Run counter-drug
Operations
Catch “bad guys on
boats”
Customer
Jobs
- “The sea is vast”
-Low budget (=> cannot
deploy to many resources)
-Hard to know where to
look/patrol
Gains
Pains
Gain
Creators
Pain
Relievers
-Information on where boats are
in patrol area lets duty officers
deploy assets more
strategically and more
efficiently
-High revisit rate enables duty
officers to see smugglers even
on quick runs (3-5h)
- Stop more boats carrying drugs
from Ecuador/Colombia
- Reduce the cost of drug
intervention operations
Value Proposition Canvas - USCG Law Enforcement DO
-provide locations of
boats without AIS in
desired area (extracted
from SAR images)
-web-based UI
-modern machine
learning/computer vision
techniques can scan many
images for boats and cover
vast areas
-locations of boats without
AIS can queue where to
send patrol vessels/aircrafts
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10. Products
& Services
Deliver geospatial
intelligence to,
warfighters, intelligence
professionals and first
responders
Customer
Jobs
- Insufficient
knowledge (images)
of areas interesting for
DoD services
- Over-tasking of analysts
- Backlog of un-extruded
data
Gains
Pains
Gain
Creators
Pain
Relievers
- Global Coverage
- On-Demand SAR images
made possible by a high
revisit rate
- Data conditioning
alleviates analyst
tasking
- Extrusions may align
with current tagging
practices
-Receive high-resolution imagery
from arbitrary places on-demand
to make it easy to deliver insight
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Value Proposition Canvas - NGA
-radar satellites
-high-resolution
SAR and InSAR
images
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11. Products
& Services
-Efficient exploration and
production and delivery
of fossil fuels
Customer
Jobs
-Temporal and spatial resolution
not sufficient
-high cost while oil is cheap
Gains
Pains
Gain
Creators
Pain
Relievers
-Inform oil production per well
-Predict future surface changes based
on historical data
-Detect oil spills before they become a
huge problem
-Reduce maintenance cost of
tiltmeters
-Reduce manpower needed to
maintain tiltmeters
-Able to provide long term
predictions/analysis
-Precise surface deformation
analysis to estimate well
productivity
-Efficient resource allocation
directly to trouble spots
(oil spills)
Value Proposition Canvas - Commercial - Hedge Fund
Investors, Oil/Mining, Agriculture
-radar satellites
-image analysis
software
-web-based UI
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19. What other problems exist in that region?
Illegal Fishing is not only
in Indonesia … West
africa 37% of IUU
Illegal Drugs in
Colombia/Ecuador
Economic activity in Port
of Singapore
Piracy in Somalia
Image resellers
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