Rick Nichols is a systems engineer for a defense contractor supporting the U.S. Navy in China Lake, California, USA. He uses the Defense Mapping Agency's Digital Terrain Elevation Data and Digitized Raster Graphics as inputs to Bryce to provide 3-D representations of terrain for military planners.
Image Notes:
AWB Splash - Splash screen for the Analyst's WorkBench (AWB), a Macintosh-based modeling & simulation tool for warfare analysts. Based on terrain around China Lake, CA.
China Lake SAMs - A fanciful representation of the overlapping threat coverage of the (imaginary) Surface to Air Missiles guarding our valley.
Front Range - This image of the Rocky Mountains shows portions of twelve 1¡x1¡ DTED cells from 105¡W37¡N to 104¡W41¡N.
Rio Grande Valley - Perched high over central New Mexico looking north towards Colorado. Sandia Mountains to the east of Albuquerque, Jemez Calera to the west of Los Alamos.
Santa Fe Sunrise - The view from Los Alamos looking east towards Santa Fe.
Hormuz TPC - This image emphasizes the information on a Tactical Pilotage Chart by overlaying it on the 3-D representation of the terrain.
Hormuz Sensors - Builds on Hormuz TPC image by overlaying conjectural sensor coverage calculated by the Analyst's WorkBench. It demonstrates the effect of terrain masking.
