Dan Berkenstock: The world is one big dataset. Now, how to photograph it ...
Dan Berkenstock: Pământul este un uriaș set de date. Să-l fotografiem.
Dan Berkenstock and his team at Skybox Imaging are rethinking how to take photographs from space. Full bio
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de ultimă generație,
am făcut o mulţime de analize,
imagistica din satelit
don't know on a daily basis.
pentru lansarea oricărui obiect în spațiu,
understand this anecdotally,
imense zone ale lumii
pentru reducerea preţului
cât un coș de pâine,
în loc de Lockheed Martin.
learned from these early missions
de pionierat
o serie de schiţe
go out and build these things,
miliarde de legături între ele,
understand the laws of physics,
can take through a telescope
pe care am fi obţinut-o
satellite imagery valuable.
cu un grup de ingineri
about one meter resolution,
just get very high-quality images,
determinanţii economiei globale,
containers and trucks
de transport maritim şi camioanele
being able to see individuals.
nu distingeam indivizii.
care trebuia respectată.
telescope that we could build.
o carte de telefon
decât un bec de 100 waţi.
captarea imaginilor
folosesc un scanner liniar,
pe măsură ce-l străbat,
primesc multă lumină,
de un sistem de ţintire
o ţintă de 50 de cm
seven kilometers a second,
generation of video sensors,
de video senzori,
unui sistem tradiţional.
pentru ultima dată pe Pământ.
în configuraţia finală
sau mai mulţi asemenea sateliţi
stastistici măsurabile
mecanisme economice
pe care le vom colecta.
De ce să construim aceşti sateliţi?
transparenţă globală,
unei noi frontiere
clipă de clipă.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Berkenstock - Satellite designerDan Berkenstock and his team at Skybox Imaging are rethinking how to take photographs from space.
Why you should listen
Dan Berkenstock is an entrepreneur and engineer from Chicago, who fell into a classic tale of Silicon Valley innovation while taking a graduate entrepreneurship course at Stanford. That class led him and some others to found Skybox Imaging, of which Berkenstock is now executive vice president and chief product officer.
Skybox's mission is simple, if bold: they're working to design and launch small satellites that "hitchhike" to space in an effort to revolutionize the satellite imaging business. In 2013, SkySat-1, the first such satellite, was launched and is now beaming back images that are high-enough resolution to show the real-time state of global commerce. The idea: to "revolutionize the ways that consumers, businesses, and governments make decisions in their day-to-day lives."
In a previous life, Berkenstock worked in the Advanced Supercomputing Division at NASA's Ames Research Center, and also worked as a counterproliferation analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he focused on trying to find and thwart potential potential smugglers of nuclear technologies. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University.
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