Scene Rending for the Smart Weapons Operability Enhancement Program.

摘要

During FY89, the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC), previously the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USAETL), became a key participant in the Smart Weapons Operability Enhancement (SWOE) program. This program is a tri-service partnership, organized for and working to provide the smart weapons/automatic target recognition (ATR) designers, developers, testers, and evaluators with the integrated information, measurements, modeling and simulation tools necessary to consider and exploit the operational battlefield environment. As part of the SWOE team, TEC is responsible for the rendering module of the 'SWOE PROCESS'. The preliminary SWOE PROCESS consisted of receiving output from the SWOE thermal and radiance models, reformatting the output so that the TEC Computer Image Generation (CIG) system could render a simulated infrared (IR) scene. This CIG system was originally developed by Boeing Aerospace, with the software residing on a Gould 32/67 computer under the Mapped Programming Executive (MPX) operating system. During FY91, TEC was responsible for converting selected modules of the MPX-CIG software to Unix, as well as incorporating/integrating the SWOE thermal, radiance, and rendering modules onto a common Unix platform, a Stardent Titan 3040 mini supercomputer. Smart weapons, Computer image generation, Infrared rendering.