CloudScape® Documentation

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Brochures

CloudGen™/Weather Toolkit
CloudScape® VR

Briefings

Viewgraphs
Annotated Viewgraphs

Papers

CIDOS 95 DeVore, J. G., J. H. Thompson, and R.J. Thornburg, "CloudScape®:  Stochastic Cloud Visualization from Volumetric Descriptions", Cloud Impacts on DoD Operations and Systems 1995 Conference, D. Grantham, Editor, Phillips Laboratory/GPAA, Hanscom AFB, MA, pgs 41-44, 1995.
CIDOS 97a DeVore, J. G., J. H. Thompson, K. W. Sartor, T. L. Stephens, and R. J. Thornburg, "CloudScape® VR:  Radiometric Visualization of Clouds for Interactive Training and Simulation", Proceedings of the Cloud Impacts on DoD Operations and Systems Conference, PL-TR-97-2112, Phillips Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA, 1997.
CIDOS 97b Thornburg, R. J., J. G. DeVore, J. H. Thompson, R. J. Jordano, T. L. Stephens, "Validation of CloudScape® AF", Proceedings of the Cloud Impacts on DoD Operations and Systems Conference, PL-TR-97-2112, Phillips Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA, 1997.
GTMV 96 Schlueter, W. A., and J. G. DeVore, "Radiometric Atmospheric Dust Environments for Distributed Interactive Simulations", Proceedings, Sixth Annual Ground Target Modeling and Validation Conference, Volume 1, K. R. Johnson, editor, Keweenaw Research Center, Houghton, MI, pgs 19-27, 1995.
IRIS TBD 96 DeVore, J. G., J. H. Thompson, and R. J. Thornburg, "Physics-based Background Visualization from Volumetric Cloud Descriptions Using CloudScape®", Proceedings of the IRIS Specialty Group on Targets, Backgrounds, and Discrimination, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 1996.

Product User's Guides

CloudGen™/Weather Toolkit
CloudGen™/Weather - 3-D Density Model for Weather Clouds
CloudRad™ - Cloud Surface Facetization and Radiometric Calculations
CloudTex™ - Surface Texture Tool

White Papers

Hazardous Material Visualization