Object Raku Technology, Inc. brings expertise in the area of visualization
for urban mission planning.
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Sextant Virtual Warfighting Tool (VWT) is a Windows platform application,
and has been used in the automated construction of dense urban environments
from standard NIMA and commercial GIS data, as well as environments covering
larger areas, for lower echelon military mission planning, and individual
and small unit rehearsal and training. The rapid terrain generation and
modification capabilities of the current Sextant VWT software will be enhanced
by the ability to output to an interchange format, making the visual and
non-visual attributes of the scenes available for a wide variety of other
simulation and command/control products.
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Object Raku will infuse urban modeling expertise, and the accompanying
use of SEDRIS to represent a detailed model of the urban environment, perhaps
reinforcing the strength of the SEDRIS representation. Using SEDRIS to
describe an urban environment may also point out areas for improvement
in SEDRIS to more effectively represent aspects of the urban environment
useful in mission planning and battle-tracking applications - areas of
command and control where SEDRIS currently sees limited use but could be
of value.
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Object Raku's corporate plans include a long-term commitment to a full
SEDRIS output module from Sextant VWT. Additional SEDRIS activities will
include creating support files for use by the SEDRIS to CTDB/MES compiler,
to support rapid generation of terrains from standard GIS data for use
in immersive and mobile simulations at STRICOM.
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Future plans include the implementation of a SEDRIS transmittal read
capability for VWT, so a user could start from a database defined elsewhere,
and modify it within VWT, to support the mission planning cycle. Also of
interest to Object Raku is the use of SEDRIS in the C4ISR domain, as a
mechanism for sharing information about the synthetic environment required
in 'real-time' systems. Sextant VWT bridges the modeling and simulation
and C4ISR domains, since it is used for mission planning and mission execution
(the battle tracking function) in the ground based arena. In support of
this, investigating XML in the context of SEDRIS is also of interest, since
the C4ISR community is moving towards the XML representation of their interchange
data (currently the USMTF messaging formats), as is the geo-spatial community
with the Geographic Markup Language.