Space Technologies Research Institute

GEZGN: REAL-TIME, MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGE COMPRESSION SUB-SYSTEMS

Real-Time Processing of image streams Concurrent processing of multi-spectral bands JPEG2000 Image Compression Tile based compression (256 x 256 pixel tile size) 3-level Discrete Wavelet Transform Compute-intensive tasks on reconfigurable ASICs (FPGAs) Compression Rate & Quality adjustable in-orbit Implementation with COTS components Failsafe operation Redundancy, monitoring & reconfiguration in-orbit

GEZGN
Space-proven on BiLSAT LEO Satellite, successfull in-orbit Launched in Sept 2003, to a sun-synchronous, 686km orbit 31 x 33 x 6cm size, 2 kg mass JPEG2000 Implementation similiar to the CCSDS 122.0-R-2 Draft for Image Compression in Space
Original Image (BiLSAT-1, 26m GSD) 16MB Image Compressed by GEZGiN 0.838% (120 times) 140KB

GEZGN-2
Space-qualified for RASAT LEO Satellite To be launched in 2010, to a sun-synchronous, 700km orbit 16 x 33 x 6cm size, 1kg mass JPEG2000 Implementation with novel techniques for fine adjustment of compression rate Full ASIC implementation Rate-Distortion Optimization adopted for non-iterative on-board processing RONI extraction for detecting and decreasing the budget of cloudy regions AES Encryption cascaded with compression
Cloud Elimination

Original Cloudy Image

ROI (Unclouded Regions)

GEZGiN-2A
GEZGN2-A has been qualified for 700km LEO mission in 2011 and is expected to be in orbit by the end of 2012 16 x 33 x 6cm size, 1kg mass JPEG2000 Implementation with novel techniques for fine adjustment of compression rate Double JPEG Engine for high pixel rates Full ASIC implementation Rate-Distortion Optimization adopted for non-iterative on-board processing RONI extraction for detecting and decreasing the budget of cloudy regions AES Encryption cascaded with compression

Raw test image

Test image, compressed by GEZGiN-2, ratio: 1/8

GEZGN
I/P Features 4 MSI Inputs @ 80Mbps

GEZGN-2
3 MSI+PAN Inputs @ 55Mbps

GEZGN-2A
4 MSI +PAN Inputs off-line @ 100 Mbps Real-time @ 500-600 Mbps LVDS @ 25Mbps, Spacewire @ 100Mbps LOSSLESS & LOSSY @ 45-55Mpixel/sec 11-bit/pixel

O/P Features

Single stream @ 25Mbps

LVDS @ 25Mbps, Spacewire @100Mbps LOSSLESS & LOSSY @ 7Mpixel/sec 8-bit/pixel

JPEG2000 Compression Features

LOSSY @ 10 Mpixel/sec, 8-bit/pixel

Adjustment of Compression Rate and Quality JPEG2000 Implementation

COARSE FINE FINE Quantization, Rate-Distortion Optimization & Rate-Distortion Optimization & SubbandOmissionColour RONI extraction RONI extraction Transform Divided between Xilinx 2 JPEG2000 engines Fully Integrated on Xilinx VirtexE300 FPGA @ 80MHz Integrated on Xilinx Virtex-5 LX330 Virtex-2 2M gate FPGA @ 110MHz and TMS320C6701 DSP @ 100MHz FPGA @ 250MHz Redundancy, TMR, Latch-up protection, Reconfiguration & Software upload in Orbit, Graceful Degradation 2 kg RSA and AES encryption ASICs on a daughterboard Redundancy, Latch-up protection, Reconfiguration & Software upload in Orbit 1 kg AES encryption embedded in Xilinx FPGA Redundancy, Latch-up protection, Configuration scrubbing 1 kg

Other Features

Fail-safe operation

Mass

Power Consumption

8 Watts @ 28V

6 Watts @ 28V

15 Watts @ 28V

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