We are pleased to announce a "release candidate" for DIRSIG 4.4.0 has been posted to myDIRSIG. A "release candidate" is a preview of the next release of DIRSIG. This version of the software is produced when we feel the software is well tested and ready for release, but we would like some last-minute user feedback. We are very excited about this release as it packs in a bunch of new features and performance improvements: New User Interface Tools Graphical simulation preview Basic image viewer Component browser SGP4 Orbiting Platform Motion Wizard Geometry Improvements Added affine transform INFO option to ODB Ray-trace optimization for dynamic (moving) scene geometry Support for vertex normals (normal "shading") on OBJ input geometry Atmosphere Added the GUI for the built-in "uniform" atmosphere model User-defined MODTRAN profile support (make_adb config file) in GUI for "classic" (ADB file based) and "threshold" (run-time MO...
A blog about the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation (DIRSIG) model featuring posts contributed by the developers. This is not a user manual and it is not a training class. But, it is a place to see what the developers are doing and a little about how we do it. So think of this as a place to learn cool tips, tricks, etc.