Location is Not Enough
The SNE defines the context within which assets can interact;
and that context can advantage, or disadvantage, them ...
The key in M&S is not so much where you are, but who you can interact with …
- Remembering that “who” includes both systems and things in the environment itself
A complete SRM must address issues such as:
- Direction (azimuth and elevation angle and range)
- (support for) geometric intervisibility
- Gravity (and implied slope, pitch/roll)
- Dynamics formulations
Operations between common spatial reference frames do not necessarily preserve any of these