Conformal Radiometry in ASAP - Performing radiometric calculations on objects

This technical publication describes the Conformal Radiometry feature in the Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP®) from Breault Research Organization (BRO). The feature is available with the ASAP beginning with ASAP 2009. Please refer to ASAP Help for more complete conceptual, task-oriented, and reference content on this feature.

Conformal Radiometry in ASAP gives users the ability to perform radiometric calculations on objects that are not necessarily planar in shape. Not only can you perform radiometric calculations on shaped objects, but also on multiple "detector" objects in a single analysis.

Conform means to be or to become similar in form or nature, whereas conformal refers, in a mathematical sense,to a projection mapping where small areas are rendered with true shape. Conformal radiometry means the calculation of radiation or some specific geometric quantity mapped onto an arbitrarily shaped object. Conformal Radiometry now provides a general software framework for the collection, computation, visualization, and tabulation of optical ray data that are spatially localized by their intersections with identified objects. You can now compute the number of rays, flux (power), irradiance (flux density), radiance, wavelength as well as derived statistics including the minimum, maximum, mean, and measures of variance of these radiometric quantities.