Overview

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

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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

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Who is NovaSol?

• Dr. Jim Karins, President CEO

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The ARCHER System

• System Description
• Airborne Sensor Suite
• Airborne Power System
• Detlev Even,
• Deputy Director Sensor Systems

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What Is ARCHER?

• Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced
  Recon
• Airborne, dual-sensor optical system with real
  time processing support to enhance the CAPs
  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

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ARCHER Block Diagram

• Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced
  Recon

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ARCHER Components
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ARCHER Sensor Requirements
CAP Requirement ARCHER Specification
1 km swath at 5,000 ft AGL 0.5 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 1001 Calibration Relative pre-flight and in-flight gt 100 1
Panchromatic Ground resolution 4 8 inches Ground Resolution 3.2 - 6.4 inches (6144 pixels across track)
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NovaSol 1100-2 HSI System
Focusing Mirror
Fold Mirror
Collimating Mirror
Filter
Grating
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Foreoptics
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Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
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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

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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

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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

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NovaSol Flight for NASA
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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)
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Data Example - Kailua
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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

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Power Supply
Airvan has 90 amps, 14 V alternators 1260 W
available Data supplied by Gippsland
Flight Mode Power Consumption Available to Instrument (80)
Day Cruise 39 amps -gt 546 W 714 W (571 W)
Night Cruise 51 amps -gt 714 W 546 W (436 W)
Night Taxi 60 amps -gt 840 W 420 W (336 W)
Night t/o, landing 71 amps -gt 994 W 266 W (213 W)
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
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The ARCHER System

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

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Airborne System Block Diagram
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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

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ARCHER MOTHERBOARD
ATX Motherboard 12 x 9.8
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mercury Vantage 7410

• PCI version of VME boards used in
• Spatial-Spectral Target Acquisition Reporting
  System (SSTARS)
• Network Fusion Node (NFN)

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Vantage 7410 Compute Node

• Two Compute Nodes each with
• G4 Processor_at_ 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

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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

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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

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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

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ARCHER Hard Disks

• 200 Gbyte HD drive
• Ultra ATA/133 Data Transfer Speed
• Average seek time lt 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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ARCHER Primary Processing Chain
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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

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The ARCHER System

• Aircraft Installation
• Organizational Chart
• Training and Support
• Detlev Even,
• Deputy Director Sensor Systems

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Gippsland Airvan GA8

• Aircraft for ARCHER Gippsland GA8 AIRVAN
• 8 seat aircraft
• Large cargo doors

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Sensor Bracket
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Computer Rack
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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

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Organizational Chart
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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

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Web Site - Template
http//hapuu/webtest/CAP/default.htm
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IV Technical Discussion