Cosmic Ray Rejection and Image Processing Aboard The Next Generation Space Telescope

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1998-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808051v2

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The NASA Yardstick design for the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) utilizes 64 1k x 1k InSb imagers. Since multiple readouts per image are required to remove cosmic ray events and to reduce the readout noise, the implied downlink rates can approach 0.7 Tbytes per day. These would exceed the downlink capabilities of RF links from L2 or more distant orbits. Some form of on-board data analysis and compression is mandatory: a factor of 100 compression for an L2 orbit, factors of 1000-10000 for a 1 AU drift-away or 1 x 3 AU elliptical orbit. Supported by funding from JPL to study the uses of low-cost, on- board parallel processors, we are studying algorithms and architectures to perform cosmic-ray rejection and lossless compression of the NIR images, while optimizing the resulting signal- to-noise.

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