Airborne Weather Radar Visual Simulation Based-on Dynamic Satellite Cloud Image

Abstract

Abstract: A real-time simulation algorithm was proposed to generate a wide range of the common aviation weather condition for the flight simulator based-on a set of dynamic satellite cloud images. With this efficient weather simulation algorithm, a fast radar echo visual simulating method was proposed. The proposed method used the 2D simplified Navier-Stokes and microphysics equations to implement the essential numerical simulation of the aviation weather condition. By this way, the complex problem of large-scale cloud resolving and particle-backscattering computing could be viewed as a simple 2D multi-resolution image processing. Real application on the flight simulator shows that the proposed method can provide a vividly visual airborne weather radar display in real-time on a normal PC platform.

Key words: airborne weather radar, aviation weather, flight simulation, visual emulation, wind field reconstruction

CLC Number:

TP391.9

Zhang Jun. Airborne Weather Radar Visual Simulation Based-on Dynamic Satellite Cloud Image[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2016, 28(6): 1344-1350.

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