The Development of a Highly Portable and Low Cost SPOT Image Receiving System

  • Choi, Wook-Hyun (Remote Sensing Division, Satellite Technology Research Center, KAIST) ;
  • Shin, Dong-Seok (Remote Sensing Division, Satellite Technology Research Center, KAIST) ;
  • Kim, Tag-Gon (Department Electrical and Electronic Engineering, KAIST)
  • Published : 1999.11.01

Abstract

This paper covers the development of a highly portable and low cost SPOT image data receiving system. We followed two design approaches. One is the software-based approach by which most of the real-time processing is handled by software. With the complete software-based design, it is simple to add a function for receiving any additional satellite data. Satellite-specific format handlers including error correction, decompression and decryption can easily be accommodated. On the other approach. we used a general hardware platform, IBM-PC and a low cost SCSI RAID (Redundant Away of Independent Disks), and therefore, we can make a low cost system.

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