This effort will demonstrate the feasibility an innovative and automated workflow that ingests electro-optical visible-light imagery and Near Infrared (NIR) satellite imagery and to produce synthetic Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) images in an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GEOTIFF compliant data format standard for use with Infrared (IR) scene projectors employed by United States military flight simulators. This effort will explore a wide range of methods and techniques for generating synthetic SWIR images. Each will be trained using satellite imagery where SWIR image ground truth is available with visible and NIR reference imagery. Experiments will be conducted to assess the fidelity of the synthetic imagery, the runtime of the workflow, the adaptability of the algorithm to images of various sizes and formats, and the compatibility with the existing scene generation workflow. The proposed effort will use open source tools in all aspects of the workflow. It will also employ open, international standard data formats for representing the imagery at all points throughout the processing chain. This will ensure that the automated workflow supports integration with other tools in the future.Short wave infrared,SWIR,image synthesis,Automatic Image Colorization,scene simulation
