NAVIS
Navy Input Station
SDL developed NAVIS, a state-of-the-art real-time reconnaissance
imagery receiver and display system, under contract to the US Navy.
NAVIS demonstrated an advanced visible/infrared/multispectral/radar
formatting and processing system for airborne sensors including provisions for
real-time common data link reception, image formation, and interfaces to secondary
ground image dissemination systems. NAVIS included a full software implementation
of the High Quality Vector Quantization (HQVQ) data, a software system developed
completely at SDL. The technology used National Imagery Transmission Format
Standard (NITFS) approved formatting and compression techniques.
As part of the TARPS-CD Program, NAVIS has been successfully
deployed aboard two US aircraft carriers and is currently installed on a third.
It was also demonstrated over the Pentagon in Washington D.C.as part of the
SHARP prototype.
The SDL- built hardware has been successfully installed as the compression mechanism
for a digital reconnaissance camera for tactical aircraft (F-14, F-18).
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