>Jon Stockill wrote: > > >>I was watching the "Ultimate Combat Helicopters" on Discovery Wings in >>the UK a couple of days ago, the prog covered the upgrades that are >>being performed on assorted helicopters so that they can integrate with >>modern battlefield communications systems. They showed a visualisation >>system displaying buildings and vehicles on a battlefield and I'm almost >>certain it was flightgear with the magic carpet FDM. Given their usual >>schedule it's likely it'll be repeated, and a quick google shows the >>same show is showing in the USA too. >> >> >> I just saw in NASA Tech Briefs they are working on a "hybrid terrian database" that sounds VERY much like our terrain database. They had a picture of an approach to the Reno-Tahoe airport that looked an AWFUL lot like our texture map technology. The tech briefs article was not specifically about a simulator, but the creation of the database as part of a visual scene system. They seem to indicate it is part of a synthetic vision system for use in aircraft during bad visibility. The work is being done at NASA's Langley research center. The article was on page 81 of the October 2006 Tech briefs magazine. You are supposed to be able to see the "Technical Support Package" at www.techbriefs.com/tsp under OCT-2006, then information sciences, then "hybrid terrain database". The TSP number is LAR16898.
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