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A PC-based multispectral scanner data evaluation workstation: Application to Daedalus scannersIn late 1989, a personal computer (PC)-based data evaluation workstation was developed to support post flight processing of Multispectral Atmospheric Mapping Sensor (MAMS) data. The MAMS Quick View System (QVS) is an image analysis and display system designed to provide the capability to evaluate Daedalus scanner data immediately after an aircraft flight. Even in its original form, the QVS offered the portability of a personal computer with the advanced analysis and display features of a mainframe image analysis system. It was recognized, however, that the original QVS had its limitations, both in speed and processing of MAMS data. Recent efforts are presented that focus on overcoming earlier limitations and adapting the system to a new data tape structure. In doing so, the enhanced Quick View System (QVS2) will accommodate data from any of the four spectrometers used with the Daedalus scanner on the NASA ER2 platform. The QVS2 is designed around the AST 486/33 MHz CPU personal computer and comes with 10 EISA expansion slots, keyboard, and 4.0 mbytes of memory. Specialized PC-McIDAS software provides the main image analysis and display capability for the system. Image analysis and display of the digital scanner data is accomplished with PC-McIDAS software.
Document ID
19910016157
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Jedlovec, Gary J. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL., United States)
James, Mark W. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL., United States)
Smith, Matthew R. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL., United States)
Atkinson, Robert J. (General Electric Co. Huntsville, AL., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: NASA, Washington, 4th Airborne Geoscience Workshop
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
91N25471
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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