Synthetic Terrain Imagery for Helmet-Mounted Display. Volume 3. Software User's Manual.

Abstract

The purpose of this document is to describe how to use the STI software program (STI). The software samples data from a preprocessed database created from the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency's Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) database and renders, in perspective view, the visual scene. An NTSC video signal drives a helmet-mounted display. The Synthetic Terrain Imagery for Helmet Mounted Display program was written to present digital terrain elevation data to pilots in several different formats on an HMD. The program can be run stand-alone, in which case it behaves like the 'flight' program that is provided by Silicon Graphics, or it can be integrated into a simulation environment which communicates over the ethernet.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 1994
Accession Number
ADA293613

Entities

People

  • Bill Corwin
  • Jeff Groat
  • Rand Whillock

Organizations

  • Honeywell International, Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Databases
  • Elevation
  • Environment
  • Ethernet
  • Flight Simulators
  • Formats
  • Governments
  • Graphics
  • Grids
  • Helmet Mounted Displays
  • High Resolution
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Simulations
  • Video
  • Video Signals

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).