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AcuSoft, Inc.
AcuSoft demonstrated the latest versions of its
software applications. The Side-By-Side Viewer Version 2.0 for Windows
was used to demonstrate how visual artifacts can be located on multiple
versions of a transmittal: from models to terrain to individual polygons.
The Side-By-Side also integrates the latest PC-IG technology from AcuSoft.
Also shown was the platform independent Transmittal Browser Version 3.0,
a Java-based SEDRIS tool, which sports an improved interface and additional
tools and options. Finally, the newly developed CTDB to SEDRIS converter
was used to convert Compact Terrain Databases to the SEDRIS Transmittal
Format. For more information, visit the AcuSoft Side-by-Side
Viewer Web Site or e-mail the AcuSoft
Point of Contact, Jesse Liu.
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Charles River Analytics, Inc. (CRA)
CRA exhibited some technologies being developed
in-house that will benefit from an association with SEDRIS. These technologies
were not SEDRIS-aware as of yet, but CRA anticipates adding SEDRIS capabilities
into some or all of these technologies. The Genetic Algorithm-based Course
of Action (COA) generator was demonstrated, which currently uses a highly
simplistic terrain model. For more information, visit the CRA
Web Site or e-mail the CRA Point of Contact,
Curt Wu.
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Institute for Defense Analyses
(IDA)
IDA demonstrated their Synthetic Environment
Evaluation - Inspection Tool (SEE-IT). IDA also demonstrated an emerging
tool currently under development that uses some of the SEE-IT principles
and software, but is intended to compare databases from an analytic point
of view. This system is intended to perform analyses of line-of-sight potential,
mobility potential, and feature content and placement as a step towards
addressing interoperability of different databases. IDA does not intend
to duplicate any of the AcuSoft Side-by-Side Terrain Viewer functions (like
3D views and fly-throughs), but will look at things from a plan-view perspective
(much like SEE-IT). For more information, visit the IDA
Web Site or e-mail the IDA Point
of Contact, Bob Richbourg.
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JRM Technologies, Inc. (JRM)
JRM showed its work in developing EDCS-based Material Property transmittals
that have the properties necessary to support physics-based sensor simulation.
A joint demonstration with AcuSoft, Inc. using Side-By-Side Viewer showed
how these STFs can be used with ITR and JRM's SigSim Library to convert
OTW visible STFs into sensor-capable databases. JRM exhibited its proposed
material mapping guidance document and SEDRIS mapping documentation, showing
how the EDCS can be used to develop a standard "material-system"
naming convention. JRM showed the types of surface optical and bulk thermo-dynamic
and electro-magnetic properties contained in these transmittals, and how
SigSim can use them to produce credible NVG, mid-wave and long-wave FLIR
signatures from them. For more information, visit the JRM
Web Site or e-mail the JRM
Point of Contact, Russ Moulton.
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MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc. (MPI),
a Computer Associates company
MPI was on hand to provide materials on their
modeling and simulation products, and to discuss their SEDRIS solutions.
For more information, visit the MPI
Web Site or e-mail the MPI
Point of Contact, Reed Whittington.
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Reality by Design, Inc. (RBD)
RBD demonstrated tools from RBD's expanding line
of SEDRIS-based products. Included in these tools was a new release of
their web-based transmittal exploration and exploitation tool. For more
information, visit the RBD
Web Site or e-mail the RBD Point
of Contact, John Carswell.
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Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC)
SAIC demonstrated assorted SEDRIS tools and utilities.
Some of these tools and utilities are included in the standard SEDRIS releases
available from the SEDRIS web site, and others, such as database converters,
are not currently available on-line. SAIC has integrated some of these
tools and utilities under a GUI front-end, and demonstrated the potential
for inter-application interface and toolkit concepts. For more information,
visit the SAIC Web Site
or e-mail the SAIC Point of
Contact, David Shen.
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Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM)
STRICOM demonstrated SEDRIS fully integrated in the WARSIM/JSIMS/OneSAF
Synthetic Natural Environment software. EDCS is the data dictionary for
the Terrain Common Data Model permiting complete and unambiguous definition
of features and attributes in the Terrain Database Generation process and
runtime software. SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF) is used to export the
Triangulated Irregular Network database from TerraTools, which is integrated
with vector features in the delivered STF. The integrated STF is inspected
by SEE-IT, and then correlated databases are produced for CGF/routing,
Plan View Display, and Visualization. The Spatial Reference Model is integrated
into the runtime software's Encapsulated Coordinate System. For more information,
visit the STRICOM
Web Site or e-mail the STRICOM
Point of Contact, Dan Stevens.
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TerraSim, Inc.
TerraSim demonstrated the production of SEDRIS
transmittals using their product, TerraTools®.
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SEDRIS transmittals produced by TerraTools are
used for database interchange, creation of correlated Compact Terrain Data
Bases (CTDB), as well as for content and quality control by several DoD
programs. These include Warfighters Simulation (WARSIM), the DMSO Terrain
Scenerio Generation and Archiving Project (TSGA), and the National Guard
Virtual Emergency Response Training System (VERTS) program. TerraTools
is supported on Windows NT/2000 and on SGI IRIX.
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TerraTools 1.4 has been upgraded to output SEDRIS
3.0.3 transmittals and to ingest STF formated databases including reusable
model libraries. Using EDCS version 2.9, the mapping of common data source
features has been greatly simplified for the end user. Enhancements to
the TerraTools Model Library and Appearance Editors provide a highly tailored
graphical user interface for SEDRIS mapping specification.
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For more information on TerraTools, visit the
TerraSim Web Site
or e-mail the TerraSim
Points of Contact, Mike Losk and Lee Ann Venturini.
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