GIS Enabled Modeling and Simulation (GEMS)

Abstract

Current C4ISR and simulation systems use different tools and formats for generating and storing geospatial information. C4ISR systems tend to use geographic information systems "GIS", such as C/JMTK, for this information, while simulation systems use proprietary terrain database formats that are generated from a number of different terrain database generation tools. This leads to problems sharing geospatial information between systems, making mission planning or embedded training difficult, as well as problems maintaining geospatial information as it is updated. A common geospatial database that can be generated with a single set of tools and shared across applications would eliminate these problems and allow higher integration of diverse military systems. Under a contract with the US Army Topographic Engineering Center, M K Technologies, along with ESRI, is developing a prototype framework for accessing geospatial data from federated geospatial databases directly into M&S applications, utilizing the ESRI ArcGIS family of products. This paper will discuss our work to date and future plans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA481213

Entities

People

  • Kevin Johnson
  • Thomas Stanzione

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Grids
  • Information Systems
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Three Dimensional
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics