Palette / Sensor Performance Monitoring (SPM)

Palette is an integrated suite of tools for processing & exploiting data from all OPIR sensors. Palette is built on Opticks, an open-source remote sensing analysis tool for GEOINT, and ArcGIS for geospatial analysis. In addition to OPIR, Opticks also supports the processing and exploitation of Imagery, Hyper-Spectral, Multi-Spectral, Thermal Infra-Red (TIR), and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Palette provides event and scene-based processing capabilities and is deployed at more than 25 organizations world-wide, including: NGA, NASIC, OPIR ground sites, ARSTRAT, NGIC, and other intelligence agencies. Palette was selected by NGA to provide OPIR scene based analysis for the entire OPIR enterprise (both GEOCOMPASS (GC) and IOTS). Palette will be integrated into GC during GC Increment 6. The Sensor Performance Monitoring (SPM) utility is a suite of tools integrated into Palette that perform a host of sensor characterization and calibration activities such as:

• Stellar Radiometric Calibration

• Point Spread Function (PSF) Determination

• Bad Pixel Identification and mapping

• Sensor Noise Analysis

• Sensor Configuration Analysis

• Simple Background Suppression Algorithms

• Bias Frame Generation

• Per-frame Statistical Analysis

• Jitter Analysis

• High Resolution PSF Analysis using the Drizzle Algorithm