Use of Interim Terrain Data to Populate Project 2851's Database in Support of Ground Forces Simulation

Abstract

Project 2851 is a Department of Defense (DoD) program to develop a standard DoD simulator database associated transformation software necessary to support a wide range of simulator applications. Project 2851 is currently capable of directly inputting two standard Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Digital Topographic Data (DTD) product, Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) and Digital Feature Analysis Data (DFAD), to populate its simulator database. This report presents the findings from a study on the potential use of a third DMA DTD product, Interim Terrain Data (ITD), to populate Project 2851's database. ITD is compared to Project 2851's Standard Simulator database (SSDB) to determine the necessary transformation required to incorporate ITD into the SSDB. ITD is a high resolution standard terrain feature database product currently available to the Army; therefore, ITD should prove very useful to the simulation community especially for ground forces simulation applications.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA245039

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