Development of a Shipboard Qualified Clamp-on Mast Transmit Probe

Terrain Experts (TERREX) has developed an open-source databaseformat, TerraPage, for terrain paging in database visualizationapplications. Applications include mission planning and militarytraining and simulation, and commercial applications in GeographicInformation Systems (GIS) and urban visualization. As a result ofthe Phase I SBIR, TerraPage now supports wavelet compression toreduce the size of the output database by as much as 95% withminimal degradation. TerraPage makes the generation and displayof large databases with high-fidelity imagery possible onopen-architecture Personal Computer (PC) hardware at much lowercost than existing proprietary hardware and software solutions.Terra Vista, TERREX' commercial database generation application,also now uses wavelet compression to improve the databasegeneration process for the end user. The Phase I investigationhas revealed promising directions for this technology, includingembedding wavelet decompression in hardware, exploring additionalwavelet algorithms, and further improvements to databasegeneration and storage which are the basis of this Phase IItechnical proposal. TERREX has entered into an agreement with amajor graphics chip and board manufacturer and a run-timeapplication provider to investigate the possibility of embeddingwavelet decompression in graphic display cards for the PCplatform, for continued work on a Phase II SBIR.