arXiv:2511.10834cs.LGcs.DC2025-11中稿 · MLSys 2026被引 1

让卫星群协同分析图像,实时筛选重要数据,大幅降低延迟。

EarthSight: A Distributed Framework for Low-Latency Satellite Intelligence

  • 卫星与地面站协作决策,共享模型计算资源
  • 图像处理耗时减少1.9倍,端到端延迟降至21分钟
  • 适合灾害响应、军事侦察等对时效性要求高的场景

低延迟的卫星影像传输对灾情响应、情报分析和基础设施监控等关键应用至关重要。传统流程需将所有拍摄图像下传后才分析,受限于通信带宽,延迟可达数小时至数天。现有系统虽在星上执行机器学习以优先传输,但通常将每颗卫星视为独立计算节点,难以扩展且效率低,多任务重复推理加剧了星上算力与功耗负担。本文提出 EarthSight,一种分布式运行时框架,将卫星图像智能解析重构为轨道与地面间的分布式决策问题。其核心创新包括:(1)卫星端采用共享主干网络进行多任务推理,分摊计算开销;(2)地面站查询调度器聚合用户请求,预测优先级并分配计算预算;(3)动态过滤排序机制结合模型选择性、准确率与执行成本,提前剔除低价值图像以节省资源。EarthSight 利用地面站全局上下文与星上资源感知的自适应决策,使星群在严格带宽与功耗限制下实现可扩展的低延迟分析。基于已有卫星模拟器的评估显示,相比最先进基线,EarthSight 将单图像平均计算时间减少1.9倍,90%分位端到端延迟从51分钟降至21分钟。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Low-latency delivery of satellite imagery is essential for time-critical applications such as disaster response, intelligence, and infrastructure monitoring. However, traditional pipelines rely on downlinking all captured images before analysis, introducing delays of hours to days due to restricted communication bandwidth. To address these bottlenecks, emerging systems perform onboard machine learning to prioritize which images to transmit. However, these solutions typically treat each satellite as an isolated compute node, limiting scalability and efficiency. Redundant inference across satellites and tasks further strains onboard power and compute costs, constraining mission scope and responsiveness. We present EarthSight, a distributed runtime framework that redefines satellite image intelligence as a distributed decision problem between orbit and ground. EarthSight introduces three core innovations: (1) multi-task inference on satellites using shared backbones to amortize computation across multiple vision tasks; (2) a ground-station query scheduler that aggregates user requests, predicts priorities, and assigns compute budgets to incoming imagery; and (3) dynamic filter ordering, which integrates model selectivity, accuracy, and execution cost to reject low-value images early and conserve resources. EarthSight leverages global context from ground stations and resource-aware adaptive decisions in orbit to enable constellations to perform scalable, low-latency image analysis within strict downlink bandwidth and onboard power budgets. Evaluations using a prior established satellite simulator show that EarthSight reduces average compute time per image by 1.9x and lowers 90th percentile end-to-end latency from first contact to delivery from 51 to 21 minutes compared to the state-of-the-art baseline.

卫星智能低延迟分布式计算

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