a vehicle display system displays enhanced vision and synthetic vision images to an operator of a vehicle . the display system includes : an ev vision image sensor for generating ev images ; an sv database containing information regarding terrain and objects of interest for a travel path of a vehicle ; an sv image generating unit for generating sv images based on travel of the vehicle and information from the sv database ; an ev image sensor control unit for controlling a field of view of the ev image sensor as a function of object of interest information from the sv database ; and a display for displaying images generated by said ev image sensor and the sv image generating unit .