AN INTEGRATED GROUND BASED DATA ACQUISITION AND REDUCTION SYSTEM

Abstract

An integrated ground data acquisition and reduction facility for monitoring rocket motor testing is being implemented for a large commercial client at their northern Utah test site. This system is capable of recording and processing in near real time large amounts of data from varied types of instrumentation. The system was developed as a stand alone data gathering and processing center and consists of one-of-a-kind integrating hardware, commercial off-the-shelf hardware and a DEC VAX 11-750 based computer system for data processing. This paper discusses the design of the system, the real time acquisition of data, and user friendly data reduction system.