<title>Computer-aided performance evaluation system for the on-board data compression system in HIRIS</title>

Abstract

This paper describes a computer-aided performance evaluation system for testing and checking the on-board data compression system used in the High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (HIRIS). The earth resources spectra from the NASA earth resources spectral information system are taken for simulative spectra of ground objects, and these spectra are sampled and quantized according to the conditions and parameters of HIRIS. Then the simulative spectral data are put in a GIFOV spectral data generator through a computer interface. In testing, the spectral data stored in the generator are sent to the data compression system at the same rate of the readout clock of subdetectors in HIRIS. The data compression system compresses the input data in real-time under the control of the clock of the input data. After compressing, the compression results are returned to the computer through a bidirection interface and compared with the original ones. Finally, the computer gives out testing results. This kind of test system can exactly simulate the original data obtained by HIRIS in space, and objectively evaluate the data compression system.