Improving the Useability of the Defense Mapping Agency Digital Feature Analysis Data for Training Simulator Applications.
Abstract
The Air Force is intensifying its reliance upon flight simulators to provide initial and proficiency training for various aircrew members. The effectiveness of these simulators depends heavily upon the Defense Mapping Agency's digital cartographic data, which is used as source data to generate simulator data bases for visual, radar, and sensor simulations. Unfortunately, the source data occasionally displays certain characteristics which disrupt the highly automated processes used to generate these simulator data bases, or which lead to improper or visually distracting effects in the resulting simulations. This paper describes the development of a software package designed to detect these problems in the source data. The capability is also provided to interactively, or in some cases automatically, correct the problems, thus producing slightly modified data that is free of these disruptive characteristics. This software streamlines the simulator data base generation process and ultimately results in a higher fidelity simulator data base. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA124893
Entities
People
- Michael R. Nicol
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology