Co-design of software and hardware to implement remote sensing algorithms

James P. Theiler; Janette R. Frigo; Maya Gokhale; John J. Szymanski

doi:10.1117/12.453328

17 January 2002 Co-design of software and hardware to implement remote sensing algorithms

James P. Theiler, Janette R. Frigo, Maya Gokhale, John J. Szymanski

Proceedings Volume 4480, Imaging Spectrometry VII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453328
Event: International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Both for offline searches through large data archives and for onboard computation at the sensor head, there is a growing need for ever-more rapid processing of remote sensing data. For many algorithms of use in remote sensing, the bulk of the processing takes place in an ``inner loop'' with a large number of simple operations. For these algorithms, dramatic speedups can often be obtained with specialized hardware. The difficulty and expense of digital design continues to limit applicability of this approach, but the development of new design tools is making this approach more feasible, and some notable successes have been reported. On the other hand, it is often the case that processing can also be accelerated by adopting a more sophisticated algorithm design. Unfortunately, a more sophisticated algorithm is much harder to implement in hardware, so these approaches are often at odds with each other. With careful planning, however, it is sometimes possible to combine software and hardware design in such a way that each complements the other, and the final implementation achieves speedup that would not have been possible with a hardware-only or a software-only solution. We will in particular discuss the co-design of software and hardware to achieve substantial speedup of algorithms for multispectral image segmentation and for endmember identification.

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James P. Theiler, Janette R. Frigo, Maya Gokhale, and John J. Szymanski "Co-design of software and hardware to implement remote sensing algorithms", Proc. SPIE 4480, Imaging Spectrometry VII, (17 January 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453328

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