An Integrated Multi-Sensor Data Processing System

This project will develop a multi-sensor data acquisition and processing system. The goal of this research will be to investigate the feasibility of developing a high-performance, real-time system capable of coordinating the simultaneous operation of several sensors aboard aircraft. The system's main feature would be real-time processing and display of data products such as salinity charts, sea temperature, and phytoplankton pigmentation count. The design will use a distributed processing architecture to achieve a high level of parallism and ease of expandability. During Phase I, reasearch will first focus on evaluation of various computer architectures, such as VME and VXI, that will be best suited for the multi-sensor processing system. The Phase I final report will include a prototype design of the data processing system that will integrate data from radiometers, multispectral cameras, GPS, and aircraft navigational instruments.