Representation of meteorological visibility in real-time simulation of targets and backgrounds

Mario A. Torres; Donald W. Hoock Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.210597

2 June 1995 Representation of meteorological visibility in real-time simulation of targets and backgrounds

Mario A. Torres, Donald W. Hoock Jr.

Proceedings Volume 2469, Targets and Backgrounds: Characterization and Representation; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.210597
Event: SPIE's 1995 Symposium on OE/Aerospace Sensing and Dual Use Photonics, 1995, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Rapid advances in computer image generators (CIGs) and scene animating software facilitate the completion of important objectives in the distributed interactive simulation effort. One objective has been to produce an accurate simulation of meteorological visibility through the use of fog or blending functions. Silicon Graphics' (SGI) Performer software capabilities, for example, are shown here to be capable of correctly generating visibility and haze in real-time scenes if one applies certain physical definitions in conjunction with certain corrections to the SGI Performer software. This paper first presents a brief background on the physical basis of meteorological visibility. Then, it quantifies and tests the direct relationship between the scene generator's parameters for the `atmospheric fading coefficient' and the meteorological visibility. An important fix to the Performer's fog function is described and the results of our implementation of a meteorological visibility `calibration' are presented.

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Mario A. Torres and Donald W. Hoock Jr. "Representation of meteorological visibility in real-time simulation of targets and backgrounds", Proc. SPIE 2469, Targets and Backgrounds: Characterization and Representation, (2 June 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.210597

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