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Data commonality, availability and accessMove from simulation specific terrain data to common geospatial information
Simulation behaviorsDevelop realistic behaviors that are based on doctrine using geospatial information that is also based on doctrine (TSOs)Move up from reasoning at the dirt level to reasoning at the operational levelAssociation of battlespace entities with actionable geospatial information
Interoperability StandardsGeospatial - GML, geo-BMLSimulation – HLA, DIS, TENA, MSDLCommand and control – BML, JC3IEDM
Current Geospatial Data ApproachCurrent Geospatial Data ApproachC4ISR systems and M&S systems use different tools and formats for generating and storing geospatial information
C4ISR – CJMTK, GIS, NGA dataM&S – Specialized run time formats for each application
No single geospatial representation supports both domainsEven within just simulation domain, no common representation of geospatial information (not even data)
Problems With Current Geospatial Problems With Current Geospatial ApproachApproach
Expensive and time consuming to produce M&S terrain databasesCorrelation between M&S terrain data difficultCan not easily share geospatial information between C4ISR and M&S
Makes mission planning or embedded training more difficultHarder to maintain geospatial information as it changes
A common geospatial approach that can generate data (and information) with a single set of tools and share it across applications would help alleviate these problems
MÄK and ESRI, Funded by TECAdditional funding coming from PEOSTRI SIMCI program
Progress to DateAddressed the geospatial access and API challengesPreliminary integration of actionable geospatial information and BMLDeveloped HLA, DIS, and TENA capabilities for ESRI GIS products
GeoprocessingGeoprocessingExpands linear features by their width attribute to create area features.Expands point features by their width and length attributes to create area features.Building point features are combined with the area building features into a single layer.Creates a unified soil type layer and stores pointers to it directly in the TIN.Extrudes buildings by their height attributes to create 3D multipatch features.Adds building area features to the TIN layer, with references to the 3D multipatchfeatures.
Integrate actionable geospatial information into existing simulation behaviors and develop higher level behaviors using itIntegrate BML / geo-BML for tasking and reportingIntegrate MSDL for scenario initialization3D Visualization CapabilitiesBrowser-based Visualization Capabilities
Extend GIS-to-SIM for GIS serversIntegration with other CGFs – OOS, JSAF, etc.Complete ArcMap Front End
Geo-Enabled M&S is quite feasibleImproves C4ISR and M&S system interoperabilityPromotes integration of M&S into C4ISR systems and doctrineMÄK and ESRI are committed to making this happen