The Joint Service Imagery Processing System (JSIPS)

A description is given of a modular, tactically deployable image processing system, capable of receiving, processing, exploiting, and disseminating digital imagery from multiple sensor types and sources and providing intelligence reports to the field commander in an average of 15 min from the receipt of real-time imagery. Most JSIPS systems are packaged in 8*8*10-ft. or 8*8*20-ft. shelters that are transportable by truck, rail, ship, aircraft, or helicopter. Since tactically deployable image processing systems demand high data rates and large data storage capacities in very small spaces, key JSIPS technologies include near lossless image compression, high-speed LANs, and a storage hierarchy with the highest bits/in/sup 3/ densities possible. Other key technologies are shock isolation to meet stringent transportability requirements and a security design that allows the system to operate in a classified environment while connected to communication links operating at lower classification levels.<>