January 25, 2004
Pittsburgh, PA - TerraSim, Inc. has been awarded a Phase II SBIR entitled "Automated Fusion of Digital Elevation Models" by the U.S. Army, to develop and commercialize technology allowing users of digital elevation models (DEMs) to merge multiple disparate sources of elevation data into consistent large area terrain models suitable for visualization, flood management planning, mission rehearsal and training, and large area mapping.
"We're quite pleased and excited to have been selected for a Phase II award," said Dr. Chris McGlone, Director of Mapping and Civil Applications. "We believe that DEM fusion represents an important and challenging topic, given the need to accommodate DEMs derived from a wide variety of sources. Airborne LIDAR, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), scanned maps, and photogrammetrically derived contours and grids all represent increasingly popular elevation data sources, and there is a strong government and commercial need for tools that can merge arbitrary DEMs in a principled manner to generate DEM products with improved accuracy and precision."
"This award makes possible the development and commercialization of fast and robust DEM fusion tools, based on our Phase I efforts," remarked Dr. Jefferey A. Shufelt, principal investigator on the SBIR project. "We are pleased to continue our work with the U.S. Army Engineer and Research Development Center (ERDC-TEC) at Fort Belvoir, whose technical members have helped to focus our efforts."
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Shift between two adjacent ASTER DEM tiles |
ASTER tiles after registration with DEM fusion tools |
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Terrain skin from unadjusted DEM |
Terrain skin after registration |
About TerraSim
TerraSim is a high-technology company that provides software solutions and services for advanced visual simulation database construction using cartographic data. TerraTools®, their primary product, is available for both Windows NT/2000/XP and SGI IRIX workstations. TerraTools is used in the automated construction of dense urban environments for regional planning as well as simulation databases for military exercises covering hundreds of one degree geocells. TerraSim also provides database construction services and advanced technology development for both civilian and military customers.
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