This image is from the visual database developed by CSC Australia for the Royal Australian Navy's Super Seasprite Full Mission Flight Simulator (FMFS).

CSC Australia's Visuals Team was responsible for developing an out-the-window image generator, a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) simulation and the associated databases for the FMFS.

Through the extensive use of high-resolution aerial imagery, CSC's Visuals Team was able to develop extremely realistic geo-specific terrain and coastline - providing enough fidelity in the out-the-window imagery to enable the crew to navigate visually using familiar cultural features.

The team used Multigen Creator Pro to develop the database, which is 200Gb in size and covers 6 airfields with a total of 100,000 square kilometers of geo-specific terrain. Source data used to construct the database included DTED, satellite imagery, aerial imagery, electronic CAD, drawings and photographs.

Being such a large, content rich database, it was very important to the team that the Multigen tool-set allowed them to create a terrain skin that was tiled so that the image generator could efficiently page data through memory as the helicopter was flown over long distances. This was achieved with remarkable ease, allowing the image generator (based on a 3-pipe SGI Onyx3400 InfiniteReality) to render imagery spanning a field-of-view of 210� horizontal by 60� vertical at a constant frame rate of 60Hz.

With the ability to embed extra information in the OpenFlight files, the team was also able generate a correlated thermal database from the visual database for use by the FLIR simulation.

Organization:
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Australia Pty. Limited
460 Pacific Highway, St Leonards
Australia 2065
www.csc.com.au

Team Members:
Team Lead - Troy Stephen
Database Modellers - Tom Sucic, Todd Maybury, Stuart O'Hara
Software Engineers - Ian Hawkes, Peter Howe, Matthew Nipperess