Study on the Medium Fusion Data Storage Technology for High Performance Airborne Sensors

The data rate of high-performance airborne sensors is much higher than the wireless data transfer rate in many detection applications, so the onboard data storage systems are usually used to store the sensor data. There is a problem in the onboard data storage that the frequency of address jumps among incontinuous areas is very high due to the high data updating frequency of the FAT (File Allocation Table) and FDT (File Directory Table), which would significantly reduce the data storage speed. This is because the most widely used NAND (Not And) flash has a long response time when storing the data in the incontinuous areas. In order to solve the problem, a called medium fusion storage method, which uses multiple mediums time sharing to store the data of file areas and data region, is proposed in this study. The performance of the proposed method is tested on an actual data storage system of the airborne sensor. The experimental results show that medium fusion storage method significantly reduces the data updating frequency of the FAT and FDT in the data storage, and the response time is negligible compared with the actual data writing time.