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Based solely on the provided passages, the Intelligent Earth-Sensing Information System (IESIS) was intended to overcome the limitations of 1980s Earth observation by addressing the need for automated, rapid, and intelligent data processing. The passages list numerous technical advances required, including "automatic techniques to rapidly correlate memory stored mapping and modeling information with visual and radar imagery," "fast image enhancement," and "rapid cross-correlation techniques" [1]. The system was also designed to overcome the lack of autonomous sensing, requiring "smart sensors" that could "perform automatic calibrations, compensations, and to reconfigure themselves automatically" [2].
The fundamental principles IESIS would leverage to achieve its "far more effective" goal include the use of a "world model" in conjunction with "smart sensors," which would "confer an extraordinary degree of intelligence and initiative to the system" [2]. This world model would be a database specific to the mission, containing "niches" with "type, coordinates, rough boundaries, and nominal sensor and characteristic values" [3]. The system's goal was to return "very specific…
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l(Vahey,1979).Technical • Extracts information in a useful form advance sin the following: are needed • Makes decisions. • Automatic techniques to rapidly correlate memory stored mapping and modeling information with visual and radar imagery obtained in orbital pass • Fast image enhancement and threshold techniques • Rapid cross-correlation techniques • Rapid boundary-determination techniques • Rapid Fourier transform techniques • Algorithms for improved automated data associations • High density rapid computers for use in space environment • Parallel processing computer techniques involving…
ground directly from image data • Advanced data compression and compaction techniques for data transmission and storage. 6.1.7 Smart Sensors Complex sensor configurations are required for both IESIS and Titan missions. A high degree of autonomous sensing capability is needed within the sensors themselves (Haye, 1979; Murphy and Jarman, 1979). These sensors must be smart enough to perform automatic calibrations, compensations, and to reconfigure themselves automatically tasks requiring advanced memory capabilities and operating algorithms (Schappell, 1980). Desirable characteristics of such…
space 5. Automatic mapping 6. Image processing via world model 7. Smart sensors 8. Information extraction techniques 9. Active scanning I0. Global management of complex information 11. Systems plan formation and scheduling 6.1.1 Land and Ocean Database Each world model is specific for a given mission goal. For a land-sensing Earth mission the satellite model may be as simple as a flat map with discrete "niches" specified by type, coordinates, rough boundaries, and nominal sensor and characteristic values. The niche type may be separately catalogued and a file stored of important niche…
d model within a multi component system • Advanced data cataloguing • Models of the users and their requirements. 6.1.2. Earth Atmospheric Modeling The choice of sensor measurements most appropriate for terrestrial meteorological monitoring will require great advances in our present understanding of the atmosphere. Because of their dynamic and highly interactive character, the boundaries of homogeneous atmospheric three dimensional niches will be far more difficult to define than surface niches whose features are essentially stationary by comparison. An important stage in the development of…
differ widely from those of the intelligent Earth-sensing system. In comparison with Earth, Titan is basically unknown. The space exploration mission goal is generally to explore and to send back as much general information as possible to terrestrial researchers about Titan. The Earth is much better known, so a major IES1S goal is to return very specific information in response to user requests or system demands. (In this latter mission, raw pixel data should be returned only under very restricted circumstances. Users requiring raw data should pay a premium for it and should accept archiving…
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