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System Requirements

Field Laptop/Tablet Requirements

Unless you are planning to process data in the field, requirements for a field laptop or tablet are fairly minimal.

  • Operating System requirements are dependent on your ground control station. GRYFN payloads are agnostic to operating system.

    • For Pixhawk-based flight controllers, QGroundControl runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS and Android.

  • An RJ45 (Ethernet) port, or Ethernet adapter, is currently required to connect your device to a hyperspectral sensor

  • Web browser capability is required

  • Extra I/O (USB-A and USB-C ports) are helpful for transferring data

  • Long battery life

  • Bright screen

  • Rugged capabilities/IP rating

Processing PC Requirements

GRYFN Processing Tool currently runs only on Windows. A Linux build is forthcoming. As far as computational requirements, GRYFN Processing Tool can run on any system with at least 8GB of RAM and a 4 core CPU. Below is a list of GRYFN's internal processing machines to show what we process on.

Example GRYFN processing machines:

Name
Cores
Speed
RAM

Machine 1

32

3.7GHz

128GB

Machine 2

16

3.5GHz

64GB

Machine 3

10

3.3GHz

256GB

PC specs in order of importance:

  1. CPU (high clock speed over cores, but ideally both)

  2. RAM (high amount, then consider clock speed)

  3. Disk read/write speed

Mass Storage Considerations

Sensor data collected from a GRYFN payload can be very storage intensive. When maximizing flight time on a single set of batteries, storage amounts for raw data alone can be in excess of 100GB per flight. After conversion and post-processing, this amount can increase 2x or more. With that in mind, storage becomes a limiting factor quickly.

GRYFN employs two methods of mass storage: a Network Accessible Server (NAS) for quick access to relevant data, and high capacity external hard drives for archival of past data. Each of our processing machines have a minimum of 4TB of local solid state storage to be able to house and process a variety of datasets instantly.

We encourage you to explore a variety of storage options and determine what works best for your organization.

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