CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPENS
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Conference Welcome
8:30 am – 8:45 am
Session Chair:
Professor Andy Koronios, CEO & Managing Director, SmartSat CRC
Keynote Speaker: Dr Christyl Johnson (Deputy Center Director for Technology & Research Investments, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
8:45 am – 9:40 am
Dr Christyl Johnson joined NASA Goddard as Deputy Center Director for Technology and Research Investments in December 2010. She manages the Center’s research and development portfolio, formulates the Center’s future science and technology goals, and leads an integrated program of investments aligned to meet those goals. Read more >
Plenary Session: Dr Matt Angling
9:40 am – 10:00 am
Session Chair:
Professor Matthew Angling, Head of Technology, BAE Space
Dr Matt Angling discusses the BAE In-Space Azalea mission, the role of technology development, and potential plans like Scarlet-α in Australia.
SESSION 1: Bringing value through collaboration
10:00 am – 10:40 am
Session Chair:
Dr Carl Seubert, Chief Research Officer, SmartSat CRC
This session looks at how SmartSat acts as a conduit between industry, academia and government, resulting in the development of innovative technologies.
Featured projects:
- P2.52 SCARLET-α: SpaceCraft Autonomy and Onboard AI for Next Generation Space Systems
- Collaborative Spacecraft autonomy with Defence Science & Technology Group and SmartSat
Speakers:
- Professor Ryszard Kowalczyk, Professorial Chair of Artificial Intelligence (AI), SmartSat CRC / University of South Australia
- Dr David Lingard, Group Leader Space Autonomy, Mission Autonomy and Platforms, Defence Science and Technology Group
MORNING TEA
10:40 am – 11:10 am
SESSION 2: Supporting Flight Heritage
11:10 am – 12:10 pm
Session Chair:
Dr Sarah Cannard, Industry Director, SmartSat CRC
This session features an overview of the South Australian Space Services Mission and Kanyini – including mission timeline, outcomes and related high-level research activities – followed by a panel session with the people behind the project.
Speakers:
- Nick Manser, Satellite Systems Engineer, SmartSat CRC
- Dr Matthew Tetlow, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Inovor Technologies
- Dr Adrian Shuard, Principal Satellite Engineer, Myriota
- Dr Catherine Grace, Director, South Australian Space Industry Centre
- Dr Davina White, GIS Lead, Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA)
PhD Presentations
12:10 pm – 12:40 pm
Session Chair:
Dr Sarah Cannard, Industry Director, SmartSat CRC
Hear from some of our brightest PhD students as they deliver a project overview as part of the SmartSat PhD Oral Poster Presentation competition.
Featured projects:
- P2.51s Close Proximity Space Domain Awareness On-Board Satellite Systems
- P2.44s Deep Learning Intrusion Detection System for Smart Satellite Networks Based on Software Defined Networking
- P2.57s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar-based Surface and Underwater Object Detection and Classification
Speakers:
- Ethan Elms, The University of Adelaide
- Uakomba Uhongora, The University of South Australia
- Elliot Hansen, Defence Science & Technology Group/The University of Adelaide
Spotlight Session: SmartSat Earth Observation – Innovative research for Australia’s pressing challenges
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm
Session Chair:
Fabrice Marre, Senior Earth Observation Specialist, SmartSat CRC
This session looks at innovative research and initiatives leveraging Earth Observation to tackle Australia’s most pressing environmental and societal challenges.
SESSION 3: Addressing the needs of Stakeholders (Part 1)
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm
Session Chair:
Fabrice Marre, Senior Earth Observation Specialist, SmartSat CRC
This session looks at how SmartSat is funding projects that are solving real world problems for stakeholders across private industry to government agencies.
Featured projects:
• P3.46 SAEcoMap: Vegetation Mapping with Hyperspectral Imagery
• P3.47 HeatWaves: Sensing South Australian Urban Heat Islands from Space
• P6.05 Developing capability to assess live coral cover and seagrass species using satellite based hyperspectral imagery
Speakers:
- Dr Davina White, GIS Lead, Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA)
- James Peters, Senior Policy Officer, Department for Environment and Water / Greening SA
- Dr Dylan Cowley, Research Fellow & Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
PhD Presentations
2:50 pm – 3:20 pm
Session Chair:
Fabrice Marre, Senior Earth Observation Specialist, SmartSat CRC
Hear from some of our brightest PhD students as they deliver a project overview as part of the SmartSat PhD Oral Poster Presentation competition.
Featured projects:
- P3.41s Quantifying Dieback of Eucalypt Forests using Remote Sensing
- P3.04 Real-time Fire Analytics
- P3.31s Natural hazard prediction and damage assessment using multimodal satellite and geospatial data in self-supervised XAI model
Speakers:
- Donna Fitzgerald, The University of South Australia
- Simon Ramsey, RMIT University
- Hira Saleem, The University of New South Wales
AFTERNOON TEA
3:20 pm – 3:50 pm
SESSION 4: Creating a legacy of sovereign onboard technologies
3:50 pm – 5:00 pm
Session Chair:
Dr Andrew Barton, Research Program Manager, SmartSat CRC
This session looks at the sovereign technologies and capabilities in onboard and artificial intelligence being developed through SmartSat.
Featured projects:
- P2.61 EM Verification of Onboard Smoke Detection Model and Algorithms
- P2.58 Robust Predictive AI & P2.34 Onboard Hyperspectral AI
- P2.10 Space Analytics Engine for OB ML and Multimodal Data Fusion
Speakers:
- Dr Sha Lu, Research Associate, University of South Australia
- Dr Darshana Madduma Kankanamalage Don, Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
- Professor Tat-Jun Chin, Professorial Chair of Sentient Satellites, SmartSat CRC / The University of Adelaide
Closing session
5:00 pm – 5:05 pm
Session Chair:
Professor Andy Koronios, CEO & Managing Director, SmartSat CRC