STC Exhibits

SEDRIS™ Technology Conference 2004

Exhibits

The Exhibits & Demonstrations area provided the latest products, innovations, and software on SEDRIS and other related environmental technologies from industry leaders.

AcuSoft, Inc.

"Power Tools"

AcuSoft demonstrated its complete line of software products. These included:

Side-by-Side
AcuScene (PC-IG)
MSDE (scenario design)
PowerStripes (after-action-review)

For more information, visit the AcuSoft Web Site or e-mail the AcuSoft Point of Contact, Andrew Tosh.

Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation

"SEDRIS Transmittal Use Case Evaluation - A CCTT Use Case Example"

The demonstration illustrated trends in the physical environment generation process, which are moving away from concrete geometrical polygon-based representations to utilize a higher level abstract paradigm based on enhanced or other authoritative data sources. For more information, visit the E&S Web Site or e-mail the E&S Point of Contact, Mark Johnson.

.	Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) "Synthetic Environment Evaluation - Inspection Tool" IDA demonstrated their Synthetic Environment Evaluation - Inspection Tool (SEE-IT). For more information, visit the IDA Web Site or e-mail the IDA Point of Contact, Tim Stone.

JRM Technologies, Inc. (JRM)

"Software Tools for Credible Real-Time Sensor Simulation"

JRM Technologies exhibited it's suite of software tools enabling real-time, physics-based, radiometric sensor simulation from your out-the-window (OTW), visible database. These tools included:

SigSim: JRM's real-time library for spectral signature synthesis and atmospheric propagation for EO, IR, full hyper-spectral, and RF.
SenSim: JRM's advanced sensor simulation package for Windows PCs.
Genesis: JRM's automatic n-channel material classifier, that converts any N-channel imagery/texture (RGB, multi-spectral, hyper-spectral).
VixSen: JRM and Quantum3D's turnkey sensor simulation software -- the most advanced real-time NVG and IR simulator on the market today.

For more information, visit the JRM Web Site or e-mail the JRM Point of Contact, Russ Moulton.

Object Raku Technology, Inc.

"Sextant - Rapid Urban Contingency Visualization"

Sextant is an application that allows rapid generation and editing of worlds for use in urban simulation settings. Sextant tools rapidly generate 3D worlds from geo-specific data, and provide dynamic regeneration of the scene as new information becomes available. The 3D worlds provide full 3D models of buildings, as well as representation of the ground terrain (from digital elevation data), roads, rivers/lakes, treelines (canopied or not), and forests (groups of tree models). The worlds can also include urban clutter type objects. The software includes a building editor to modify details of the buildings, including adding windows, doors, and interior walls and objects, creating a detailed roof, cutting holes either for architectural features or for battle damage, and texturing or coloring the walls. Sextant tools are accessible to the soldier/marine. Output of worlds to SEDRIS Transmittal format is available. For more information, visit the Object Raku Web Site or e-mail the Object Raku Point of Contact, Janette Hooper.

ProLogic, Inc.

"SAGE - ArcGIS to SEDRIS Conversion Tool"

ProLogic demonstrated SAGE, a tool for producing SEDRIS transmittals from ESRI ArcGIS data. SAGE is an ArcGIS extension that will export feature layers, triangulated irregular networks (TINs), elevation grids, thematic rasters, and image rasters into an STF file. SAGE runs on Windows, has an intuitive user interface, supports EDCS classification and attribution through extensible modules, and maps ArcGIS coordinate systems into SEDRIS SRFs. With SAGE, SEDRIS producers can use ArcGIS's extensive data import, editing and analysis functionality to prepare GIS data, and then easily create SEDRIS transmittals. For more information, visit the SAGE Web Site or e-mail the ProLogic Point of Contact, Jeremy Loomis.

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

"Innovative SEDRIS Applications"

SAIC demonstrated the Focus application. SAIC demonstrated some of the latest upgrades to the Focus tool to examine, analyze and manipulate STF transmittals. For more information, visit the SAIC Web Site or e-mail the SAIC Point of Contact, David Shen.

TerraSim, Inc.

"OOS Unified STF Transmittal and Repository Editor"

TerraSim demonstrated its OOS Repository Editor that utilizes the OOS Unified STF Transmittal. Originally developed to provide WARSIM database producers with an easy-to-use database intensification environment for off-the-shelf WARSIM geotiles, this system is being extended to support engineering efforts for OOS database repositories. The use of a Unified STF which contains original source data for the WARSIM geocell, combined with editing tools based upon TerraSim's TerraTools project editor, currently allows end users to interactively customize or refine existing databases and produce an updated Unified STF on a geotile basis. TerraSim also demonstrated TerraTools(R), its core environmental database generation system, and TerraTours(tm), a real time situation assessment and information fusion viewer for high fidelity urban operations. TerraTours integrates 3D visualization with interactive query to deliver organization and display of a variety of information sources, including still imagery, CAD drawings, audio, and video, linked during the database construction process or by the end user. For more information, visit the TerraSim Web Site or e-mail the TerraSim Point of Contact, Julius Yako.

U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM)

"Synthetic Natural Environment (SNE) Virtual Data Repository (SVDR)"

SVDR is an RDECOM project to develop a prototype of a web-based repository of SNE 3-D model objects using no commercial software that would require any costly licenses. The web repository can facilitate discovery by providing a single, searchable, logical site and catalog of synthetic environment products. Benefits for this technology include significantly reduced cost and a shorter time to deliver new products by reducing unnecessary development. As producers deliver their products to the web repository, it becomes available to all approved users based on the releasability of the product. SVDR is focusing on 3D visual models, and plans to store these models in their native format, as well as the SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF). By storing models in STF, the repository will be able to deliver models in a standard format, and more importantly in a format that will facilitate use of SEDRIS tools to reason upon the STF, thus providing the user a myriad of options for utilizing the data. For more information, visit the RDECOM Web Site or e-mail the RDECOM Point of Contact, Julio de la Cruz.

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