SBIR/STTR Research Award
Terrain Analysis and Visualization Workstation
Award amount
$68,351Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1994Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Telesis Corporation
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
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- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
The Terrain Analysis and Visualization Workstation will extract terrain height information from multi-sensor imagery, produce a co-registered set of orthorectified images, and fuse the imagery with existing hydrological, transportation, and land-use datasets. The resulting data will be presented to the user through a coherent set of 3-dimensional visualization, manipulation, and measurement tools. An important innovation in the workstation is the representation of sensor models and sensor trajectories by an object-oriented class library. Use of this class library and the associated photogrammetric "methods" that are defined on the object classes will provide a mechanism for supporting additional sensors that are available in the future. It will also allow the user to visually simulate the observations from imaging instruments through the interactive modification of sensor types, flight paths, and platform orientation.
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