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Geospecific Night Imagery for Real-time Training Simulators

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N61339-07-C-0075
Agency Tracking Number: N071-045-0807
Amount: $147,864.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N07-045
Solicitation Number: 2007.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-05-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-11-22
Small Business Information
1351 N Alma School Rd, #265
Chandler, AZ 85224
United States
DUNS: 135051964
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Karl Mathia
 Principal Investigator II
 (650) 906-2218
 kmathia@rscusa.com
Business Contact
 Jeffrey Clark
Title: President
Phone: (480) 966-2727
Email: jclark@rscusa.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Renaissance Sciences Corporation (RSC), Terrain Experts, Inc., Harris Corp., and L3 propose a software system that procedurally derives geospecific cultural lighting from night imagery and supplemental data sources, and incorporates the resulting raster imagery and vector data into runtime databases for training simulators. Environmental lighting from artificial (‘cultural‘) sources, one of the most important night-time phenomena, is generally not represented by modern training systems for either out-the-window or sensor views. The extraction of geospecific cultural lighting from night imagery as well as its procedural generation is an effort to make the option of rendering light patterns from populated areas a reality. This novel technology will have decisive advantages over current state-of-the-art database generation tools, which do not take advantage of night imagery source data and other sources from which geospecific cultural lighting can be derived.

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