Laura Domine is a postdoctoral researcher at the galileo-project (Harvard University) and the first author of the 2024 commissioning-data paper covering ~500,000 aerial object trajectories recorded from January–May 2024 at the Harvard observatory.
Research
Domine led the analysis of the galileo-project’s first public dataset, which used an all-sky infrared sensor array (Dalek) and ML pipelines (YOLO + SORT) to reconstruct and classify ~500,000 aerial trajectories. Of these, ~80,000 (~16%) were flagged as outliers; 144 remained ambiguous after manual review due to the absence of range (distance) data.
The paper establishes the observational baseline against which future multi-station stereoscopic Dalek deployments will be measured.