New impressive capabilities of SE-workbench for EO/IR real-time rendering of animated scenarios including flares

Alain Le Goff; Thierry Cathala; Jean Latger

doi:10.1117/12.2195092

21 October 2015 New impressive capabilities of SE-workbench for EO/IR real-time rendering of animated scenarios including flares

Alain Le Goff, Thierry Cathala, Jean Latger

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Proceedings Volume 9653, Target and Background Signatures; 965307 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2195092
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2015, Toulouse, France

Abstract

To provide technical assessments of EO/IR flares and self-protection systems for aircraft, DGA Information superiority resorts to synthetic image generation to model the operational battlefield of an aircraft, as viewed by EO/IR threats. For this purpose, it completed the SE-Workbench suite from OKTAL-SE with functionalities to predict a realistic aircraft IR signature and is yet integrating the real-time EO/IR rendering engine of SE-Workbench called SE-FAST-IR. This engine is a set of physics-based software and libraries that allows preparing and visualizing a 3D scene for the EO/IR domain. It takes advantage of recent advances in GPU computing techniques. The recent past evolutions that have been performed concern mainly the realistic and physical rendering of reflections, the rendering of both radiative and thermal shadows, the use of procedural techniques for the managing and the rendering of very large terrains, the implementation of Image- Based Rendering for dynamic interpolation of plume static signatures and lastly for aircraft the dynamic interpolation of thermal states. The next step is the representation of the spectral, directional, spatial and temporal signature of flares by Lacroix Defense using OKTAL-SE technology. This representation is prepared from experimental data acquired during windblast tests and high speed track tests. It is based on particle system mechanisms to model the different components of a flare. The validation of a flare model will comprise a simulation of real trials and a comparison of simulation outputs to experimental results concerning the flare signature and above all the behavior of the stimulated threat.

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Alain Le Goff, Thierry Cathala, and Jean Latger "New impressive capabilities of SE-workbench for EO/IR real-time rendering of animated scenarios including flares", Proc. SPIE 9653, Target and Background Signatures, 965307 (21 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2195092

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