Space Technology Smart India Hackathon 2024 Top Problem Statements

By: Engineer's Planet

The Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2024 has opened doors for the budding innovators to tackle some of the most difficult problems in Space Technology. This ranges from exploring new frontiers in outer space to building new tools to analyse satellite images. This blog highlights 10 main Problem statements under the Space Technology theme which highlights the types of projects that can be undertaken aimed at moving further that frontier.

This project proposes the designs of intellectual devices meant for space exploration and other activities related to the outer space. Innovations may be aimed at the design of space vehicles, space constructions, and also instruments enhancing space activities.

1. Student Innovation (Hardware)

Create an image change detection method focusing on SAR satellite images, trying to detect man-induced changes only, excluding naturally induced ones.

2. Automatic Change Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite

3. Automatic Road Extraction and Alert Generation

Create software that automatically extracts road information from microscope images and notifies any new/changed road information on a given period.

4. Student Innovation (Software)

Develop computer programs for the purposes of exploring space and conducting operations in space beyond the confines of earth.

5. Enhancement of Permanently Shadowed Regions of Lunar Craters

Enhance the Chandrayaan-2 captured low illumination images of PSR regions of the lunar crater to enhance noise signal ratio.

In Conclusion, The Space Technology theme in SIH 2024 provides an opportunity to go beyond the normal limits in innovation related to the field of space exploration and satellite imagery. Participants in these problem statements have the opportunity to be part of things which can fundamentally change the way we conduct space missions and observe the planet observation.