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As the technology behind the production of large array focal planes becomes more advanced and production costs decrease, the need for fast and accurate visualization and analysis software becomes more essential to demonstrate performance. Generic science data analysis programs are limited in their use of parallel processing and their ability to rapidly display high resolution imagery. Instead, intelligently designed, dynamic yet rapidly deployable software is the most capable and cost-effective solution. FTI has drawn on 30+ years of experience in the field of space-based sensor calibration to develop specialized software dedicated to efficiently viewing and reducing focal plane science data. FTI has designed a comprehensive visualization software package that is mission-tested in the arenas of requirements sell-off, customer presentation, and active test support.
The Integrated Sensor Analysis Tool (I-SAT®) is an optimized, sensor calibration and performance evaluation package that incorporates a proprietary data visualization component capable of storing and displaying multiple frames of NxM data where the actual dimensions of the data array are dictated solely by hardware constraints. The visualization component’s load functions are parallelized for maximum speed with multi-core processors and the display functions incorporate an intelligent decimation routine that allows the analyst to view pixel arrays that may exceed the maximum screen resolution. I-SAT was used in a recent mission to display frames larger than 16 million pixels, but can handle larger formats. Full, interactive control over display color scales, pan/zoom options, spatial/temporal/spectral line plots and histograms make I-SAT a dynamic and essential analysis tool. In addition to the visualization component itself, I-SAT is a fully-integrated, mission-tested calibration package that can be enhanced to utilize a database structured back-end.
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