Applied Coherent Technology Corporation

ACT takes pride in implementing cost effective methods to rapidly process large volumes of image data while stringently meeting all mission or program requirements. Our front-end image processing support includes such essentials as quick look analysis, long-term archival of data, in-flight calibration, integration of image-processing centers, and real time access to the data over the WWW. ACT's WIPE/PIPE network centric architectures are presently being used to support the following on-going projects:

	MESSENGER (NASA) Discovery mission to Mercury to research surface, space environment, geochemistry and ranging.
	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (CRISM team)
	DEEP IMPACT

Our previous projects include:

	STARDUST (JPL/NASA).
	NAVY's Tactical Environmental Data Server - implementation of image data servers and implementation of Tactical Decision Aids, with full reach back capabilities, for the war-fighter (the WIPE Tactical Axon).
	LACE/UVPI (DOD).
	CLEMENTINE (DOD/NASA), Multispectral Images from the Moon.
	MOONLINK, A project to kelp students (k-12) to link Clementine Data with Lunar Prospector data.
	MSTI2&3 (AIR FORCE), An atmospheric background data collection satellite.
	Rapid Environmental Assessment Exercises (NATO).
	Naval Earthmap Observer (NEMO), Hyper spectral remote sensing satellite.
	FAME, Full-Sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer.

	LACE/UVPI	Clementine	MSTI2&3	NATO's	Stardust	NEMO	NOAA	MESSENGER	MRO/CRISM
Date	1990	1993	94-95	96-98,2002	on-going	not launched	2000-now	on-going	on-going
Quick Look	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Geometry Computations	No	Yes	Yes	Yes for ERS-2	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Final Archival	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
In-flight Calibration	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Archival Format	FITS	PDS	PDS.	WIPE/Native	PDS	PDS	WIPE/Native	PDS	PDS
Level 1 (v0)	N/A	48 hours	< 24 hrs.	N/A	< 2 hrs.	< 24 hrs.	N/A	< 24 hrs.	< 24 hrs.
Level 1 Revised	N/A	< 3 hours	N/A	N/A	YES	< 24 hrs.	N/A	TBD	TBD
Level 2	6 months	N/A	< 24 hrs.	N/A	N/A	< 24 hrs.	N/A	< 6 months	< 6 months
Level 3	6 months	1 week	< 24 hrs.	1 hr.	N/A	TBD	minutes	TBD	TBD
WWW Access	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes Interactive	N/A	Yes Interactive	Yes Interactive	Yes Interactive	Yes Interactive
# of Images or Data Volume	500,000	2 Million	<10,000/day (2 yrs)	1-20 Gbytes	TBD	100 GB /day (expected)	7-10 Gbytes /day	0.2 GB /day (expected)	20 GB/day expected:in+out
User Community	DOD	DOD/NASA	DOD	NATO's War-Fighter	NASA	DOD & Commercial	NESDIS/ NWS/Fisheries	NASA/ JHU/APL	NASA/ JHU/APL