Currently NASA has Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) in orbit over the United States. The weather data from the satellites are processed with a program written in IDL, however this program does not operate within NASA's real-time constraints. The three functions that are causing a significant slowdown in the program are color conversion, interpolation, and fast Fourier transforms. The goal of this project was twofold: to reconstruct the algorithms and attempt to optimize them.

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Creator

• Hodos, Mark Bartholomew
• Hammond, John William
• Blank, Karin Barbara

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 00B007M

Advisor

• Looft, Fred J.
• Brown, David C.

Year

• 2000

Center

• Goddard Space Flight Center Project Center - MQP

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright