Welcomes theCivil Air PatrolNaval Research LaboratoryAir Force Research LaboratoryU.S. Coast Guard

ARCHER Meeting - AgendaI INTRODUCTIONSII 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

VIIICONCLUSION

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

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

– Search and Rescue– Drug Interdiction– Disaster Relief– Homeland Security

• System includes Ground Station for post-processing of acquired sensor data

ARCHER Block DiagramAirborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Recon

HSI

Pan

Frame GrabberFrame Grabber

ARCHER Processing Unit

Serial I/OSerial I/O

GPSIMU

PanMonitor

HSIMonitor

2 PENTIUM2 PENTIUM

2 Mercury G42 Mercury G4

VideoVideo

RemovableStorage

RemovableStorage

Frame GrabberFrame Grabber

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PanPan

Frame GrabberFrame Grabber

ARCHER Processing Unit

Serial I/OSerial I/O

GPSIMU

PanMonitor

HSIMonitor

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2 Mercury G42 Mercury G4

VideoVideo

RemovableStorage

RemovableStorage

Frame GrabberFrame Grabber

ARCHER Components

DALSA Piranha 2Linescanner BEI C-MIGITS III

GPS/IMU

NovaSol 1100-2HSI System

NovaSol 1100-2HSI Systems

Quad ProcessorComputer System

PVPAEO Power Supply Unit

NovaSol 1100-2HSI System

AVT-18FPRM-VFlat Screens

ARCHER In-Flight Sensor ARCHER In-Flight Processing

DALSA Piranha 2Linescanner BEI C-MIGITS III

GPS/IMU

NovaSol 1100-2HSI System

NovaSol 1100-2HSI Systems

Quad ProcessorComputer System

PVPAEO Power Supply Unit

NovaSol 1100-2HSI System

AVT-18FPRM-VFlat Screens

ARCHER In-Flight Sensor ARCHER In-Flight Processing

ARCHER Sensor Requirements

CAP Requirement ARCHER Specification

1 km swath at 5,000 ft AGL0.5 km swath at 2,500 ft AGL

36 deg FOV

Speed: 90 – 110 knots Frame Rate 40-120 Hz

Spec. Range: 500-1000 nm 500 – 1000 nm

Spectral resolution 10-15 nm 12 nm (42 bands)

Spatial Resolution 1 m GSD 1 m GSD

SNR: 100:1Calibration: 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

Fold Mirror Collimating Mirror

Focusing Mirror

Grating Filter

Foreoptics

Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)

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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 full-frame 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

Hanauma Bay

Altitude: 2000 ft AGLGround Speed: 80 knts (~40 m/s)Frame Rate: 55 HzFOV: 30 deg (326 m swath)Spatial Resolution: 512 pixelsSpectral Resolution: 48 channels (400 – 900 nm)Ground Resolution: 0.6 m (2 ft)

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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

Component Power Consumption

HSI System 21

HSI System 21

Panchromatic Line-scanner 10

C-MIGITS III 19

Differential Receiver 10

Computer System 280

Flat-Panel Screen 28

Flat-Panel Screen 28

Total 417

Airvan has 90 amps, 14 V alternators: 1260 W availableData 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)

The ARCHER System

Airborne Processing System HardwareSoftwareConcepts of Operation

ARCHER Ground Station

Stuart Mills, Senior System Engineer

Airborne System Block Diagram

Airborne Processor

- Dual 2.4 GHz Xeon: - 1 Gigabyte ECC DDR RAM: - 200 GB Hard Disk: - Coreco PC-CamLink Frame Grabber: - Coreco PC-Dig Frame Grabber: - Mercury Vantage 7410 Dual 500 MHz G4: - Matrox Parhelia Multi-Monitor Graphics Card:

Airborne Power Supply19" Airborne Rack

c_migits :C-MIGITS III

rmHD1 :200GByteATA

Frames for remov able

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rmHD2 :200GByteATA

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hsi :Dalsa 1M15

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pan :Piranha2 P2-2x-06k40

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pan :Airborne LCD

Keyboard mouse

Two removable HD

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rs422

camera link

rs232

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

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• 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

• 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

ARCHER Primary Processing Chain

CorrectHyperspectral Imagery

ExecuteSpectral Matched

Filtering Algorithm

ExecuteSSRX Algorithm

Library of MatchedFilters

Convert Detectionsto Lat Long

Acquire & StoreNavigation Data

Create High Res PanDisplay with overlay

High Res Pan withDetection Overlay

Display

Create HyperspectralWaterfall Display with

overlay

Constant False Alarm Rate Detector

HyperspectralWaterfall with

Detection OverlayDisplay

Acquire & StoreHigh Resolution

Panchromatic Data

Acquire & StoreHyperspectral Imagery

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

– 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 post-

flight 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 InstallationOrganizational ChartTraining 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 EvenProgram Manager

Ellery LumMechanical Engineering

Charles CarletonGeo-Registration

Seshagiri AlaAlgorithms

Software

Stuart MillsSystem Engineering

Sandy BuruscoUser Interface, I/O

Stanward OshiroElectrical Engineering

Chris WarrenOptical Engineering

Arleen VelascoSensor Assby. and Test

Evan RapoportTraining & Support

Nadia RobertsNTPS, FAA Cert.

Paul JohnsonField Support

Sandy OsborneDocumentation

Jim CummingsQuality Assurance

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