Dalhousie University|Université Dalhousie

Purpose

This project’s purpose is to educate, train and actively engage as many students (college, bachelors, masters and doctorate) as possible in STEM and in particular, space technology and science. The mechanism to achieve this STEM engagement is the opportunity to design, build, assemble, integrate, test and launch a 3U CubeSat (small satellite) into low-Earth orbit. The goal is to collect the scientific data and analyze it to develop tools and insight to monitor and study climate change. The scientific objective is to analyze the multispectral camera imagery to assess how well harmful algal blooms could be detected with onboard machine learning models and whether tree events could be monitored well in-orbit.