Physics-Based, High-Fidelity Simulation: Strategic Scene Generation Model

Abstract

This paper describes a computerized system to generate reliable line-of-sight radiometry and time-sequenced digital images in support of the design, development and test of advanced strategic surveillance systems and for strategic engagement simulations required by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is developing the Strategic Scene Generation Model (SSOM) to provide valid images, and the capability to generate them, to various BMDO program elements and technology demonstration and measurements programs - thereby serving as a standard against which different BMD concepts and designs can be tested. Consequently, the SSOM has emerged as a highly visible focus for the ongoing development of phenomenology models and currently provides many projects in the BMD community with integrated, consistent, dependable, accessible and affordable state-of-science modeling and simulation capability.