Tutorial Description
SEE-IT is a powerful tool that provides two primary utilities to environmental database users and developers. It checks for conditions that may be inaccurate descriptions of the physical environment they are intended to model. It also evaluates environmental databases to find conditions that can lead to anomalous behaviors by entities operating in the simulated world. In addition, SEE-IT provides data query and filtering mechanisms to highlight, detect, and diagnose environmental data. This tutorial demonstrates how SEE-IT allows users to examine the content of a SEDRIS transmittal for "geometric" anomalies. Discussion includes examples on finding conditions such as: cracks in the terrain, improper road junctions, mis-aligned boundaries between features, narrow or sliver polygons, and a variety of other anomalies usually found in terrain databases. Plans for future content checking of non-terrain data sets are also discussed.
Environmental modelers and software engineers interested the interpretation of environmental data using SEDRIS-based tools and utilities, those who intend to design and implement other SEDRIS-based conversion applications, tools, or utilities to operate on SEDRIS transmittals, or anyone who is interested in learning the design and implementation of the SEE-IT.
At completion, the attendee should have an understanding of what SEE-IT does, and how it is used to identify and interpret various anomalies that can occur in environmental databases.