What general classes of sensors can be simulated with the DIRSIG model?

The model has a flexible model that allows the model a virtual collection "platform". Attached to that platform at various user-defined locations and orientations are "instrument mounts" where instruments or sensors can be attached. Each mount can be either static or dynamically oriented relative to the platform as a function of time. Each instrument or sensor is attached to its corresponding mount using a user-defined location and orientation specification. Within each instrument, the user can create a set of virtual focal planes with various dimensions (number of pixels), pitches (individual pixel size), offsets (array to array offsets) and clockings. Each focal plane can have one of many available "capture method" models assigned to it. These capture models allows the user to model the spatial and spectral responses of the associated focal plane.

Using this flexible description, the user can simulated a variety of different types of different sensors. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- A fixed, broad band, 2D array camera (e.g. an LWIR camera).
- A ground vehicle based 2D array video camera.
- An airborne 2D Bayer pattern (structured filter array) camera on a UAV (e.g. a surveillance camera).
- An airborne or space-based, multi-spectral "pushbroom" (1D array) instrument.
- An airborne, whisk-broom scanning, hyper-spectral instrument (e.g. AVIRIS).
- An airborne platform with a "cow's udder" array of cameras, each pointing in a different direction relative to the platform.
- An airborne hyper-spectral "pushbroom" instrument with an RGB video "context camera".
- An space-based, multi-spectral "pushbroom" instrument with separate, modular RGB arrays and a separate, modular high resolution pan array.
- An airborne Geiger-mode APD LADAR/LIDAR system.
- A vehicle mounted, side-looking linear-mode LADAR/LIDAR system.
- A Michelson Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) on a tripod.