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Welcomes the
Civil Air Patrol
Naval Research Laboratory
Air Force Research Laboratory
U.S. Coast Guard
ARCHER Meeting - Agenda
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INTRODUCTIONS
OPENING REMARKS
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III
CONTRACTOR
CAP
NOVASOL
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OVERVIEW
SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
IV TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS
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ATG
CONTRACTOR
FACILITIES
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TOUR
Q AND A.
VI CONTRACT CLAUSES AND PROVISIONS
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LGC
CONTRACTOR
VII CONTRACT SIGNING
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LGC
CONTRACTOR
VIII CONCLUSION
III. OVERVIEW, SYSTEM DESCRIPTION
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Who is NovaSol?
NovaSol's Current Programs
The ARCHER System
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System Description
Airborne Sensor Suite
Airborne Power System
Airborne Processing System
ARCHER Ground Station
Aircraft Integration
Karins
Karins
Even
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Mills
Mills
Even
Who is NovaSol?
Dr. Jim Karins, President & CEO
The ARCHER System
System Description
Airborne Sensor Suite
Airborne Power System
Detlev Even,
Deputy Director Sensor Systems
What Is ARCHER?
• Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral
Enhanced Recon
• Airborne, dual-sensor optical system with real
time processing support to enhance the CAP’s
mission capabilities in the areas of
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Search and Rescue
Drug Interdiction
Disaster Relief
Homeland Security
• System includes Ground Station for postprocessing of acquired sensor data
ARCHER Block Diagram
Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Recon
FrameGrabber
Grabber
Frame
PENTIUM
22PENTIUM
2 Mercury G4
2 Mercury G4
FrameGrabber
Grabber
Frame
HSI
Pan
Removable
Removable
Storage
Storage
GPS
IMU
SerialI/O
I/O
Serial
ARCHER Processing Unit
Video
Video
HSI
Monitor
Pan
Monitor
ARCHER Components
ARCHER Sensor Requirements
CAP Requirement
1 km swath at 5,000 ft AGL
0.5 km swath at 2,500 ft AGL
Speed: 90 – 110 knots
Spec. Range: 500-1000 nm
ARCHER Specification
36 deg FOV
Frame Rate 40-120 Hz
500 – 1000 nm
Spectral resolution 10-15 nm
12 nm (42 bands)
Spatial Resolution 1 m GSD
1 m GSD
SNR: 100:1
Calibration: Relative pre-flight and
in-flight
> 100: 1
Panchromatic:
Ground resolution 4 – 8 inches
Ground Resolution 3.2 - 6.4 inches
(6144 pixels across track)
NovaSol 1100-2 HSI System
Focusing Mirror
Fold Mirror
Collimating Mirror
Grating
Filter
Foreoptics
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
Special ed 102703 SNR PES vol 13
650
15% target, DFPA
20% target, DFPA
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500
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Pixel SNR
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0
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Wavelength (nm)
900
1000
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
NovaSol 1100-2 HSI System
• Proven, rugged system: NovaSol has sold 10 systems to
4 different customers over the past 4 years
• All systems are
airborne, all vis
systems have
worked without a
single failure
Piranha-2 Panchromatic Imager
• 6144 x 1 pixels
• Up to 12 kHz frame rate
(720 Hz required)
• 8 bit resolution
• CameraLink interface
• More compact,
affordable than fullframe camera
C-MIGITS 3 INS
• Meets or exceeds
accuracy requirements for
SEARCHERS' EDGE
• Work on software
interface can commence
immediately (NovaSol has
in-house unit)
• Antenna interface needs
to be determined
NovaSol Flight for NASA
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Hanauma Bay
Altitude:
Ground Speed:
Frame Rate:
FOV:
Spatial Resolution:
Spectral Resolution:
Ground Resolution:
2000 ft AGL
80 knts (~40 m/s)
55 Hz
30 deg (326 m swath)
512 pixels
48 channels (400 – 900 nm)
0.6 m (2 ft)
Data Example - Kailua
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901
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1261
1441
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2341
2521
Power Supply
• Custom power supply will guarantee
efficient power conversion
• PVPAEO has built airborne power
supplies for NASA, others
• Custom supply will minimize weight,
volume of airborne system
Power Supply
Airvan has 90 amps, 14 V alternators: 1260 W available
Data supplied by Gippsland:
Flight Mode
Power Consumption
Available to Instrument (80%)
Day Cruise
39 amps -> 546 W
714 W (571 W)
Night Cruise
51 amps -> 714 W
546 W (436 W)
Night Taxi
60 amps -> 840 W
420 W (336 W)
Night t/o, landing
71 amps -> 994 W
266 W (213 W)
Component
Power
Consumption
HSI System
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HSI System
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Panchromatic Line-scanner
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C-MIGITS III
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Differential Receiver
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Computer System
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Flat-Panel Screen
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Flat-Panel Screen
28
Total
417
The ARCHER System
Airborne Processing System
Hardware
Software
Concepts of Operation
ARCHER Ground Station
Stuart Mills, Senior System Engineer
Airborne System Block Diagram
ARCHER Airborne Processor
Hardware Overview
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Dual 2.4 GHz Xeon processors
1 Gigabyte DDR memory
Two removable hard disks (200 Mbytes)
One internal hard disk (200 Mbytes)
Mercury Vantage 7410 with dual G4 processors
Matrox Parhelia Multi-Monitor AGP Graphics Card
Coreco PC-DIG RS422 Frame Grabber
Coreco PC-CamLink Frame Grabber
Rugged Chassis
ARCHER MOTHERBOARD
ATX Motherboard 12” x 9.8”
ARCHER CPUs & Memory
• Dual 2.4 GHz Xeon Processors
– 512 MByte cache
– 533 MHz Front Side Bus
• 1 Gigabyte 266 MHz DDR memory
– 4.27 GB/s bandwidth
– Error correcting
• 8x/4x AGP Pro slot
• Two 64 bit PCI slots
• Two 32 bit PCI slots
ARCHER PCI & Storage Interfaces
• 4 Serial ATA ports
• Dual EIDE ports Ultra DMA 100MB/s
– Supports 4 IDE devices
• Dual Gigabit Ethernet integrated on
motherboard
• Two serial ports
• Two USB 2.0 ports
• PS/2 Keyboard and mouse ports
Motherboard System Health
• Monitors CPU core voltages & system power
supply
• Monitors CPU, Chassis temperature
• Monitors CPU & Chassis fans
• CPU slow-down on temperature overheat
• Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology (SMART)
• can help predict impending drive failures
Matrox Parhelia Graphics Card
• Optimized for 2D graphics display
• 512-bit GPU
• 256-bit DDR memory interface
– 20 GB/s memory bandwidth
• 128MB DDR memory
• Triple-RGB, Dual-DVI, TV output
Mercury Vantage 7410
• PCI version of VME boards used in:
– Spatial-Spectral Target Acquisition &
Reporting System (SSTARS)
– Network Fusion Node (NFN)
Vantage 7410 Compute Node
• Two Compute Nodes each with:
– G4 Processor@ 500 MHz
• 2 Mbytes L2 cache
• Altivec unit supports peak rates of 4 GFLOPS/sec
– 256 Mbytes SDRAM
• 1 Gbyte/sec bandwidth
• Error Checking & Correcting
– DMA with pre-fetch & FIFO buffering
• Processors focus on processing, not moving data
– PCI 64 Interface
• 256 Mbytes/sec
Hyperspectral Frame Grabber
• Coreco PC-Dig-R
– 4MB SGRAM image buffer
– 120MB/sec bus master transfer to host
– RS-422 input up to 20 MHz pixel acquisition rates
– Two RS-232 serial ports
• provide camera function control and setup
Panchromatic Frame Grabber
• Coreco PC-CamLink
– 120MB/sec bus master transfer to host
– 16 MB on-board buffering
– Acquisition Rates up to 62.5 MHz
ARCHER LCD Displays
• Model AVT-18FPRM 18" a-Si Active Matrix TFT Color
LCD
• Resolution: up to 1280 x 1024
• Display Colors: Unlimited colors
• Bright, high contrast display
ARCHER Hard Disks
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200 Gbyte HD drive
Ultra ATA/133 Data Transfer Speed
Average seek time: < 9.5 ms
Average latency: 4.2 ms
Rotational speed: 7200 RPM
8MB Cache Buffer
Shock
– Operating 2 ms (G): 60
– Non-operating 2 ms (G): 300
Hard Disk Frames & Carriers
• Allows user to insert/remove drives
• Data Express DE110
– Mating connector rated at 25,000 or 35,000
insertions
– Rugged Steel & Aluminum Construction.
– Lock ensures safe insert/remove
Archer Processor Chassis
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4U 19” Rack-Mount
19.76” deep
Steel Chassis
Aluminum front panel
ATX Motherboard
3 accessible 5.25” drive bays
1 accessible 3.5” drive bay (floppy)
1 internal 3.5” drive bay
Door with EMKA Lock/Latch
Processor Reliability Enhancements
• Shock/vibration mounts to racks
• Hold down bar for I/O cards
– Vibration damping
• Support bars for CPU heat sinks
• Supports & vibration damping for motherboard
• Stabilant 22 for edge card connections
– Provides the reliability of a soldered joint without
bonding the contacting surfaces together
ARCHER Operating Systems
• Windows XP
– Used for GUIs, Storage & Data Capture
• Real time threads for
– Acquiring imagery
– Acquiring navigation data
• High priority threads for data storage
– Dual processors ensures meeting real-time goals
• Mercury MC/OS
– Used for Hyperspectral Detection processing
• SubSpace Reed – Xiaoli (SSRX) Anomaly detection
• Spectral Matched Filter detection
– MC/OS designed specifically for real-time signal
processing
Library of Matched
Filters
ARCHER
Primary
Processing
Chain
Execute
Spectral Matched
Filtering Algorithm
Acquire & Store
Hyperspectral Imagery
Correct
Hyperspectral Imagery
Constant False Alarm Rate Detector
Acquire & Store
Navigation Data
Acquire & Store
High Resolution
Panchromatic Data
Convert Detections
to Lat Long
Create Hyperspectral
Waterfall Display with
overlay
Create High Res Pan
Display with overlay
High Res Pan with
Detection Overlay
Display
Hyperspectral
Waterfall with
Detection Overlay
Display
Execute
SSRX Algorithm
ARCHER HSI Display
• Hyperspectral Waterfall Display
– 512 pixels x ~900 lines RGB
• Full spatial resolution
• Operator selects which bands are used to
generate RGB
– Automatically scrolls during flight
– Operator can scroll back up to one minute
in time
– Detections are overlaid as they occur
ARCHER Panchromatic Display
• Panchromatic Waterfall Display
– 1024 pixels x ~900 lines monochromatic
• 1/6th actual spatial resolution
– Automatically scrolls during flight
– Operator can scroll back up to one minute in time
– Detections are overlaid as they occur
• Pop up window contains lat, long, el & detection source
– Operator can click on panchromatic pixel to get full
resolution pop-up
• Display interesting regions that are not detected
• 256 x 256 nominal
ARCHER Chips Display
• Panchromatic Chip Display
– Detection Chips
• Displayed in pan detection chips window
– Nominal size is 256 x 256 pixels
– Operator can scroll through detection chips
• Selecting detection chip loads filter into matched filter
algorithm
– Matched Filter Chips
• Displayed in pan matched filters chips window
– Decimated Detection Chip: 128 x 128 nominal
– Maximum of 20 matched filters
ARCHER System Displays
• ARCHER Command & Status Window
– User Inputs
• Initialize, Start, Stop, Shutdown
• Select Profile
– Displays
• Current flight data
– Lat, long, elevation, ground speed
• ARCHER Processor Status & Errors
– Disk storage status
– Disk errors, processing errors, camera interface errors
• Text print out of detections as they occur
– Lat, Long, El, detection source
Ground Station Hardware
• Same as Airborne Processor except
– No Mercury Vantage 7410
– No frame grabbers
– External Disk Enclosure
• Approach provides back-up capabilities
for PC hardware
• Provides non-realtime execution of
Airborne Processor algorithms
External Drive Chassis
• Ground Station External Drive Chassis
– Supports up to 4 drives
– Two 200 GB Hard Disks installed
• 400 Gbytes
Kingston StorCase
Data Silo DS351 Rack
Playback Software
• Allows the operator to play back the
data collected during a flight
– Scenes are loaded from disk
– Based on the NRTP developed for NRL
– Same algorithms used on the Airborne
Processor
– Allows the operator to adjust parameters
• Determine optimal settings for specific missions
Data Conversion
• The Ground Station will have utilities to
convert the collected imagery into standard
formats
– NITF (National Imagery Transfer Format, the
standard DoD format),
– STANAG 7023 (a standard NATO format)
– HDF (Hierarchal Data Format, used in scientific
processing)
– ENVI/IDL compatible formats.
Geo-Rectification Utility
– Uses the 100 Hz navigation data and
digital terrain models to create spatially
accurate representations of the ground
imaged by the sensor.
• Corrects for variations in the aircraft attitude
that result in the sensor imaging off-nadir.
– Roll, Pitch, and Yaw
• Corrects for terrain variation (elevation)
• Corrects for variations in altitude.
ARCHER Concept of Operation
• Pre-Flight operations
– Install two 200 Gigabyte disks for current flight
– Select a profile
• Collection of system parameters
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Enter mission name
Initialize system
Calibrate sensors
Enable airborne processing
Concept of Operation (cont.)
• Flight operations
– View Hyperspectral and Panchromatic displays
• Hyperspectral displayed full res
• Decimated Pan displayed
– View detections and associated full resolution pan
chips
– Select detections for matched filtering
• Maximum of 20 simultaneous matched filters
– Select regions in the pan image to display as full
resolution pop-ups
Concept of Operation (cont.)
• Post-Flight
– Remove the two 200 Gigabyte disks
– Install into the Ground Station for postflight analysis.
– Playback the flight
– Investigate impact of parameter changes
– Save new parameters as a new profile
– Copy the data to Ground Station storage
The ARCHER System
Aircraft Installation
Organizational Chart
Training and Support
Detlev Even,
Deputy Director Sensor Systems
Gippsland Airvan GA8
• Aircraft for ARCHER:
Gippsland GA8
AIRVAN
• 8 seat aircraft
• Large cargo doors
Sensor Bracket
Computer Rack
Certification
• DER Identified: National Test Pilot
School (NTPS) in Mojave, CA
• Certified Airvan for U.S. market
• All aircraft data on file
• POC: Nadia Roberts
• Promises easiest approach to get
ARCHER FAA certified in 4 months
• Gippsland is already supporting
NovaSol: POC George Morgan
Organizational Chart
Detlev Even
Program Manager
Stuart Mills
System Engineering
Nadia Roberts
NTPS, FAA Cert.
Jim Cummings
Quality Assurance
Ellery Lum
Mechanical Engineering
Evan Rapoport
Training & Support
Stanward Oshiro
Electrical Engineering
Paul Johnson
Field Support
Sandy Osborne
Documentation
Chris Warren
Optical Engineering
Arleen Velasco
Sensor Assby. and Test
Software
Charles Carleton
Geo-Registration
Seshagiri Ala
Algorithms
Sandy Burusco
User Interface, I/O
Training and Support
• Each system will be delivered with full
documentation, training
• Web site will be developed for 24/7 tech
support
• All questions will receive a reply within
24 hours
Web Site - Template
http://hapuu/webtest/CAP/default.htm
IV Technical Discussion