Processing Software at JABLTCX and Processing Acceleration Opportunities

Abstract

The report is a review of the processing software and hardware currently used at the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JABLTCX) located in Kiln, MS. JABLTCX operates an airborne LIDAR survey system SHOALS 3000T20E called CHARTS. This airborne system collects voluminous data from its variety of onboard sensors bathymetric LIDAR, topographic LIDAR, hyperspectral imager and color camera. The huge volume of currently collected digital data and a foreseen increase in the data gathering capabilities of the next generation survey system creates a need to find faster methods to process collected data. This report looks at the existing processing paths, processing hardware and software to identify opportunities to accelerate processing and delivery of final hydrographic, topographic and hyperspectral products by using high performance programming techniques such as parallelization, vectorization and in memory processing. A small number of targeted improvements have been identified to be discussed with software vendors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA484501

Entities

People

  • Krzysztof Sarnowski

Organizations

  • University of Southern Mississippi

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Automatic
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Digital Data
  • Elevation
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Geographic Coordinate Systems
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Images
  • Metadata
  • Operating Systems
  • Optical Properties
  • Reflectance
  • Servers (Computer Hardware)

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Software Engineering.