OBDP 2021 sessions will include several aspects of on-board data processing, in order to cover all the major areas of interest for the attendance.

Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

• Status of ESA, CNES and DLR On-Board Data Processing Activities
• Current and Future Data Processing Requirements, Trends and Needs
• Developments in On-Board Data Processing Frameworks and Architectures 
  • Reconfigurable data processing architectures
  • Parallel processing frameworks (OpenMP, OpenCL)
  • Hardware acceleration of processing tasks
  • Heterogeneous processing systems
• Devices and Equipment for On-Board Data Processing 
  • Devices and benchmarks (Multicore processors, GPUs, FPGAs)
  • Digital processing units (DPUs)
  • Processing systems based on COTS devices
  • Processing modules for OBCs and mass memories
• On-board Data Processing Algorithms and Implementations 
  • Multi- and Hyperspectral image processing 
  • Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing
  • Radio interferometer processing
  • Visual navigation
  • Data and Image Compression
  • Data reduction
  • Other on-board processing applications
• Machine learning for on-board data processing 
  • Data Analysis (classification, segmentation, selection) 
  • Software tools and FPGA IP for machine learning inference
  • Fault-tolerance in deep learning algorithms

Additional topics may be added depending on contributions.