Design Issues and Architecture of HACIENDA, an Experimental Image Processing System

The paper provides the rationale for the architecture and design of a color image display and processing system called HACIENDA. The system was heavily influenced by one of its most important intended applications, the processing of LANDSAT data, including that to be provided by LANDSAT D. Also considered in the paper are the trade-offs involved in making the system suitable for a broader range of image processing work without unduly adding to cost or complexity.