Correlated weather in CAF DMO
ABSTRACT This paper explains a possible approach for achieving correlated weather within Combat Air Force (CAF) Distributed Mission Operations (DMO). A DMO exercise consists of many different systems. These systems use different Image Generators (IG's). The problem is that while each IG is capable of rendering weather (i.e. clouds) they all do it differently making it difficult for each system to have the same picture as the next.

The Common Image Generator Interface (CIGI) has been around for years and describes message packets in detail that would allow the communication of weather across systems. With an environment created using Openscenegraph, OSGEarth, and SilverLining, information is being extracted and communicated to other IG's through CIGI. Can weather be communicated across systems through this protocol well enough to achieve a sufficient level of correlation? This is the main question attempting to be answered.

VITA Vincent Irizarry is a Software Engineer working for the Boeing Company at the Warfighter Readiness Research Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) located at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. He spent the first 11 years of his career at the Virtual Warfare Center in St. Louis, MO and the last 2 years at the AFRL. Mr. Irizarry holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, a M.S. in Computer Science and a private pilot's license. At the AFRL his primary role is to conduct research in achieving correlated weather within DMO as part of the Rehearsal Enabling Simulation Technologies (REST) team.