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NovaSol's ARCHER System Overview

Dive into the technical discussions on the ARCHER system components, sensor requirements, and ground station operations. Learn about NovaSol's proven track record and innovative solutions for enhancing mission capabilities.

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NovaSol's ARCHER System Overview

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  1. Welcomes the Civil Air Patrol Naval Research Laboratory Air Force Research Laboratory U.S. Coast Guard

  2. ARCHER Meeting - Agenda I INTRODUCTIONS II OPENING REMARKS • CONTRACTOR • CAP III NOVASOL • OVERVIEW • SYSTEM DESCRIPTION IV TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS • ATG • CONTRACTOR V FACILITIES • TOUR • Q AND A. VI CONTRACT CLAUSES AND PROVISIONS • LGC • CONTRACTOR VII CONTRACT SIGNING • LGC • CONTRACTOR VIII CONCLUSION

  3. III. OVERVIEW, SYSTEM DESCRIPTION • Who is NovaSol? Karins • NovaSol's Current Programs Karins • The ARCHER System • System Description Even • Airborne Sensor Suite Even • Airborne Power System Even • Airborne Processing System Mills • ARCHER Ground Station Mills • Aircraft Integration Even

  4. Who is NovaSol? Dr. Jim Karins, President & CEO

  5. The ARCHER System System Description Airborne Sensor Suite Airborne Power System Detlev Even, Deputy Director Sensor Systems

  6. 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 • Search and Rescue • Drug Interdiction • Disaster Relief • Homeland Security • System includes Ground Station for post-processing of acquired sensor data

  7. ARCHER Block Diagram Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Recon

  8. ARCHER Components

  9. ARCHER Sensor Requirements

  10. NovaSol 1100-2 HSI System Focusing Mirror Fold Mirror Collimating Mirror Filter Grating

  11. Foreoptics

  12. Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)

  13. Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)

  14. 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

  15. 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 full-frame camera

  16. 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

  17. NovaSol Flight for NASA

  18. Hanauma Bay Altitude: 2000 ft AGL Ground Speed: 80 knts (~40 m/s) Frame Rate: 55 Hz FOV: 30 deg (326 m swath) Spatial Resolution: 512 pixels Spectral Resolution: 48 channels (400 – 900 nm) Ground Resolution: 0.6 m (2 ft)

  19. Data Example - Kailua

  20. 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

  21. Power Supply Airvan has 90 amps, 14 V alternators: 1260 W available Data supplied by Gippsland:

  22. The ARCHER System Airborne Processing System Hardware Software Concepts of Operation ARCHER Ground Station Stuart Mills, Senior System Engineer

  23. Airborne System Block Diagram

  24. ARCHER Airborne Processor Hardware Overview • 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

  25. ARCHER MOTHERBOARD ATX Motherboard 12” x 9.8”

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Mercury Vantage 7410 • PCI version of VME boards used in: • Spatial-Spectral Target Acquisition & Reporting System (SSTARS) • Network Fusion Node (NFN)

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. ARCHER Hard Disks • 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

  36. 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

  37. Archer Processor Chassis • 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. ARCHER Primary Processing Chain

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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.

  49. 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.

  50. ARCHER Concept of Operation • Pre-Flight operations • Install two 200 Gigabyte disks for current flight • Select a profile • Collection of system parameters • Enter mission name • Initialize system • Calibrate sensors • Enable airborne processing

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