INTERFACING A GEO-DATABASE AND A TRAINING SCENARIO LIBRARY FOR AN ONLINE SCENARIO DATABASE ACCESSIBLE TO DEFENSE SIMULATORS

Abstract

A training scenario library is a physical depository where texts and told stories of military doctrine and lesson plans are visually constructed to convey an abstract experience through a concrete visual and audio simulation and pass on to next generations of defense officers. An ideal approach is to provide defense clients with all-time access to the library from which the needed training scenario is selected and placed on the training scene in form of a computer-generated virtual world. This paper explains an interface between the geo-database that defense clients can access through Google Maps/Earth tool on their site and the scenario library accessed via a scenario selector that will select and load the scenario for rendering on their simulators. This approach requires a scenario database design and concept to collect 3D assets that will be populated in the selected terrain and artificial intelligence that is needed to create character and vehicle behavior and training waypoints and paths. The user sites are equipped with a graphical user interface for further customization of the loaded scenario before launching in the simulator. Simulation of the proposed interface was conducted and reported in the result and discussion section. Actual implementation in the field where on-site clients access the interface for mission composition and editor was scheduled to appear on further studies and believed to be the core scenario database that shapes the way military doctrine and lesson plans are handled.