Simulation Database Archive and Reuse Project

Abstract

One of the continuing challenges to the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) community is finding the appropriate terrain databases (TDBs) for a simulation exercise. The U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) has produced a number of terrain databases through contract, in-house, and cooperative efforts. Over the years these efforts have accumulated a list of TDBs that are available to the DoD M&S community. Unfortunately, many of these databases were not created with reuse in mind. This paper will summarize the efforts of the Simulation Data Archive and Reuse (SDAR) project sponsored by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), managed by the Terrain Modeling Projects Office (TMPO) of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), and executed by TEC. The project covers the entire process from cataloging existing databases to making them available via the Master Environmental Library (MEL) in several, commonly used compilations. This paper details that process and lists the databases currently available for reuse.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA354826

Entities

People

  • Michelle T. Bevan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Communities
  • Configuration Management
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Databases
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • High Resolution
  • Military Operations
  • Simulations
  • Terrain
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering.