Analysis and Preparation of a Digital Terrain Data Base for Flight Simulator Use.
Abstract
The Air Force needs low-level, high speed flight simulators capable of producing correlated visual, radar, and infra-red display scenes. These scenes can be produced by computer generated imagery if a suitable data base is available. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a digital terrain data base suitable for use in a high speed, low-level flight simulator. A 164,000 square nautical mile data base was constructed from data supplied by the Defense Mapping Agency. This paper discussed the construction and organization of the data base, as well as the data retrieval algorithms. It was demonstrated that the data could be accessed fast enough to simulate Mach 1 flight. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA115547
Entities
People
- Harry D. Ross
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology