RAMSS: Real-time Atmospheric Mitigation Sensor System

Fifth Gait Technologies seeks to build on our previous production of a real-time long-distance imaging-through-turbulence system, which markedly improved images for D/ro up to ~9 on standard PC architectures. Algorithmic improvements are planned to increase the mitigated turbulence levels into the D/ ro ~15 range. Porting of the algorithms to a massively parallelized GPU platform using CUDA will provide large gains in processing speed and reductions in required power making it suitable for UAV and other power constrained applications. Advantages of this method include the flexibility to rapidly adapt processing algorithms as they evolve, something that is impractical on system-on-chip (e.g., FPGA) implementations. The resulting product RAMSS, the Real-time Atmospheric Mitigation Sensor System, will be demonstrated at the end of the effort.