SVIT complex for analysis of space photography

A new computerized image-processing complex was analyzed. The complex is the self-contained video information terminal (SVIT). State-of-the-art space technology makes it possible to obtain number of pictures of the planet's surface. Photographs from space represent a qualitatively new type of information. The SVIT stores several pictures at the same time, display them on a television monitor and performs certain operations for the transformation of the images: enlarging and reducing, shifting individual parts and presenting black-and-white pictures in legend colors. The aerospace video-information processing system must be interactive. In addition to a conventional computer memory, The new complex has a special video-information storage device which permits the storing of as many as 10 pictures at once. The fact that pictures take up a very large space in a computer's memory makes such a device necessary.