Specifications

FASTER
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RE.P.05
Georeferencing accuracy shall
be in the same order of the
GSD
At present this requirement cannot be
fulfilled, neither applying postprocessed
GPS differential corrections. Further
developments will be focused to make
the system compliant.
RE.P.06
The system shall be able to
guarantee a 3 fps acquisition
Selected cameras have a maximum
frame rate of 5 fps allowing higher
flight speed at equal along-track overlap
percentage.
RE.P.07
The system shall be able to
collect at least 20 GByte/hour
The system will be equipped with 3 256
Gbyte SSD disks allowing more than 3
hours of image acquisition at the
maximum frame rate.
RE.P.08
Total autonomy of the system
must be equal to that of the
airplane on which the system
is mounted
FASTER battery is sized to power the
system for about 4 hours which is the
typical ULAs flight endurance.
Interface Requirements
RE.I.01
The system shall have
standard RS232 serial ports in
order to use different set of
sensors (G.P.S, I.M.U,
magnetometer and pressure
sensors)
Each camera will be connected to a
single PC/104 board, equipped with 2
programmable serial ports, which can
be used for camera control or digital
sensors acquisition
RE.I.02
Acquired images must be
saved in a standard format
(JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF or
GEOTIFF)
Images will be acquired in RAW format
from the cameras and then converted, in
realtime, in a compatible format
RE.I.03
In order to allow a fast
download of the acquired data
the system shall be equipped
with a GBit Ethernet
connection
Selected cameras use a standard GiGE
high speed connection to download
acquired data
RE.I.04
The system shall be
compatible with standard
aircrafts electric bus (12 V,
regulated or unregulated) to
allow battery recharge where
possible
FASTER will be equipped with an
external power connection to charge the
battery. The same solution will be
implemented in the FASTER EM as
shown in section 6.2.
RE.I.05
The system shall be equipped
with a DC-DC converter able
to generate typical digital
device voltage references (12,
8, 5, 3.3, etc)
FASTER will be equipped with a
compatible DC-DC converter. See
Section 6.2.
Table 2: FASTER system requirements