Synthetic Environment Core (SE Core) Providing the Common Virtual Environment (CVE) correlated terrain databases for Army training systems to enable Interoperability and ensure Fair Fight Accurate Representation of the Real Earth Environment Training warfighters in real-time is imperative for Producer Certification Pilot Program establishes Five innovations distinguish SE Core’s unmatched ff 1:250K – Clean entire database, focusing on mission success and soldier survival. The U.S. Army's a standardized structure for U.S. Army geospatial production of correlated terrain databases: major geographic features, large landmarks, and transportation and hydrography infrastruc- Synthetic Environment Core (SE Core) Common data producing organizations (data co-producers) ff Precision Correlation Methodology ture Virtual Environment Management (CVEM) program to be certified as Trusted Partners for U.S. Army ff Four Quality Scales provides fully correlated terrain databases enabling Geospatial Enterprise (AGE) foundation geospatial ff Improved Transportation Networks ff 1:50K – Clean and align major cities, notable interoperability within live, virtual, constructive and data production and contribution. ff Automated Procedural Model Generation landmarks, navigationally-significant features, gaming training systems to allow warfighters to "train ff Synthetic Simulated Aerial Imagery and military installations SE Core Today as they fight." ff 1:25K –Clean, align, and digitize delineated Training today's warfighters requires accurate Precision Correlation Methodology major military training areas, airfields, and SE Core is the U.S. Army’s Program of Record (POR) representation of the real earth environment, To ensure the production of the highest quality areas of operations; including all buildings and under the Program Executive Office for Simulation, terrain datasets for customers, the SE Core team including geographic terrains with specific features structures Training & Instrumentation (PEO STRI), delivering and locations. The convergence of accuracy and created a managed correlation methodology to ff 1:12.5K – Clean, align, and digitize the high- fully correlated, common, geospatial terrain interoperability is the realization of Live, Virtual, identify and quantify the measure of correlation est resolution urban training areas and Military databases; ultra high resolution cultural and common Constructive - Integrating Architecture (LVC-IA). between alternate run-time representations of a moving visual models; Common Virtual Components Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) sites, with SE Core provides correlated, geospatial terrain common geospatial terrain dataset. (CVCs); and a common Computer Generated Forces every feature recognizable in satellite source databases for U.S. Army simulators, simulations SE Core uses Dignitas Technologies, LLC's C-nergy imagery, adding interiors for all buildings (CGF) for Training Aids Devices Simulators and and training systems to support the execution of and GameSim's Validate correlation test tools to Simulations (TADSS). combined arms and joint training, mission planning, ensure the databases have the most consistent SE Core is the U.S. Army’s focal point for all and rehearsals at homestation and deployed representation and highest fidelity to assess correlated synthetic environment requirements. The locations. It ensures virtual compatibility with all live, correlation and compatibility, and accelerate the SE Core program provides products to registered constructive and gaming systems. validation and quality control of correlated terrain users and developers in the U.S. and other select The SE Core CVE delivers six critical products: databases. C-nergy and Validate ingest multiple customers. SE Core saves customers and developers output formats such as OpenFlight, OneSAF Terrain 1. Geospatial Terrain Databases cost and schedule time, and helps ensure that Format, and others to perform automated and simulators and simulations correlate and interoperate 2. Common Cultural And Moving Models semi-automated testing with precise correlation, across critical training platforms. 3. Common Virtual Components (CVC) as well as provide a final quality control process before output and delivery to confederates and Army Geospatial Center (AGC) 4. Virtual OneSAF® Improved Transportation Networks The SE Core program participated in a pilot program consumers. 5. Simulation Standards SE Core is collaborating with Cognitics, Inc. to evaluate and test a standardized process in SE Core correlation measures include; quality 6. FAA Standard Airfield to increase the complexity and realism of compliance with the U.S. Army Geospatial Enterprise checks, edits and verification of terrain feature transportation networks in virtual and gaming standards, and policies. SE Core program has differences, such as existence, placement and 1. Geospatial Terrain Databases terrain databases. The result of this collaboration achieved a gold level rating, as a certified co- attributes, as well as surface differences in elevation The SE Core program produces high-quality includes: producer for the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC). terrain, object tops and materials, and the collision terrain databases to meet the U.S. Army’s changing The gold level rating identifies the data products between vertical surface variations. ff Reduced roadway undulations, elimination of missions and theaters of operation. Using raw and are suitable for operational use and are consistent small untrafficable embankments, construction processed geospatial terrain data from government Four Quality Scales of smooth shoulders, and representation of with the standards, profiles in accordance with and commercial sources, the SE Core team extracts, The SE Core team instituted a rigorous standard banked roads on curves the U.S. Army Geospatial Policy. The AGC Co- cleans, aligns, and correlates all source data into for Core Content collection based on the SE Core ff Trafficable transportation tunnels and other a consistent terrain Master Database (MDB) that Environmental Data Model. Additionally the network features. is non-proprietary, industry standard, and open team defined feature quality standards based on ff Complex intersections with spaghetti junctions formats that are run-time system independent. four scales within the MDB including: 1:250,000; and clover leafs Additionally, the MDB is readied for consumption 1:50,000; 1:25,000; and 1:12,500. SE Core’s Quality ff Multi-level bridges and overpasses with realistic in specific geospatial datasets and runtime formats Content Specification is derived from the National integration into the terrain used by specific training systems. Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and SE Core provides terrain databases for an expanding United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapping specifications. They include: 1 number of PEO STRI programs and confederates. 2 Ultra High-Resolution Models and the Realism of Advanced Virtual Gaming Worlds Automatic Procedural Model Generation the realism of today’s advanced virtual gaming ff Veritas Model Viewer - Provides model visualiza- SE Core has collaborated with U.S. Army’s Research, worlds and next generation display. tion including the capability to view static 3D Development and Engineering Command models such as buildings, vegetation and 3D Cultural Models (RDECOM) and the Rapid Data Generation (RDG) moving models such as vehicles and obstacles, ff Geospecific Models, representing unique fea- program to leverage technology from the GameSim’s and 3D life form models and animations.* tures in a specific terrain database, i.e., stadium, ff Veritas 2D/3D Viewer - Provides model visualiza- Procedural Model Generation Service (PMGS) theme park, landmark, etc. research initiative. PMGS is GOTS software that tionof simulation events and is integrated with ff Geotypical Models representing structures typi- procedurally generates fully textured 3D models. OneSAF, SE Core terrain and models, as well as cal of a region or area in the terrain database SE Core’s Automatic Model Generation software DIS/V-DIS and CTIA protocols. The viewer sup- ports OpenFlight, COLLADA, and FBX formats. uses PMGS to procedurally generate, based on the ff Ultra-High Resolution Buildings (UHRB) with Veritas is the LVC-IA and ITESS viewer.* feature content of each unique database, the precise interior rooms and multiple stories, and fully traversable – inside and out, up and down – by geo-typical regionalized models required. Automatic *Products currently under government review. OneSAF and gaming entities Model Generation reduces the cost of producing ® models simultaneously tailoring the model set for Common Moving Models (CM2) 4. Virtual OneSAF each database. SE Core develops realistic, common moving models SE Core developed and maintains the virtual to support the expanding Confederate partners Synthetic Simulated Aerial Imagery extension to OneSAF. Virtual systems now offer the model that is TRADOC Capability Manager - Virtual including EPX, Veritas, VSB3 and Open-flight formats. SE Core Synthetic Imagery tool produces simulated ability to train simultaneously with a realistic, 3-D (TCM-V) approved with data based on AVCATT These high definition models represent a vast variety full color draped imagery, simulated black and white simulated environment. SE Core specific models, and CCTT. of entities and placeable objects within terrain Controlled Image Base (CIB), ground surface imagery entities and units were created