Title: Missionland, a multinational co-operation program to construct and share a generic mission simulation environment
Abstract: A simulation environment is a virtual representation of the real-world natural and cultural environment. Such an environment contains dynamic elements, for example weather, time of day and moving vehicles, as well as static elements, for example vegetation, buildings and infrastructure. When performing distributed (joint) simulations a number of problems exist concerning the selection and use of a simulation environment. These problems can either be caused by the different requirements of the participating users or by different technical capabilities.
As training via distributed mission simulation has the potential to enhance force readiness and operational effectiveness in coalition operations, these problems with the environment representation should be solved. Normally, this can be done by correlating existing environment databases, but that is costly, both in effort and in money, and the end-result will always be hampered by technical incompatibilities. It also does not address security and political limitations. Therefore it is preferable to create a generic and geo-unspecific simulation environment, Missionland.
In 2008 the NATO RTO task group MSG-071 'Missionland' started. Its prime objective is to construct a coherent dataset from which environment databases can be constructed for a wide scope of simulators. These environment databases are generally needed for visual out-of-the-window and sensor views, but also terrain servers and computer generated forces applications often make use of such databases. In support of the prime objective, there is the need to implement a deployment and continuation process to ensure proper use and continuation after the life of MSG-071. This includes guidelines and support in using Missionland.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-07-13
Language: en
Type: article
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