Tactical and Meteorological "Workbench" for Naval Mission Planners

Working with researchers at Physitron, Inc. and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Digital Radiance designed and developed an application that provided a shared environment for Naval personnel to create, augment, and present interactive 3D mission scenarios. The "workbench" concept allows tactical and meteorological personnel to use their own respective tools and terminology in building a shared mission scenario. This product was the basis for a successful Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract, awarded to Physitron. The application was developed on a Silicon Graphics Unix workstation in C/C++ using X/Motif, OpenGL, and vis5d, a public-domain meteorological visualization library.