1. Envitia Thoughts on Geo-Modelling & Simulation Use Cases – 3DGMS Orlando
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2. Envitia In a Nutshell Products & Technology Solutions Applied Research
MapLink Pro
TacView C2
RivetJoint/Airseeker
Apache Mission Planner
Envitia Discovery
Mission Data Management
Watchkeeper & NUWC
Envitia GeoRegistry
UK MOD Defence Geospatial Services
Operational sub-systems
NG Brunei C4ISTAR system
Bespoke Product Support
Thales Watchkeeper Mission Data Management
Spatial Data Infrastructure
UK MOD Defence Maritime Geospatial Services
Approved DTCT Member
Products & Technology
Solutions
Approved software provider to the UK MOD, US DOD and CA DND
Applied Research
Geo-locating Unstructured Text
Security Innovation
Data Modelling & Metadata
JC3IEDM
NGIF
Defense R&D
MOD/DSTL
NATO
Interoperability Testbeds
DI2E Plugfest
DHS NGFR-OGC IoT
OGC NIEM
Delivered the UK’s Principal GEOINT research program to Dstl over the past four years
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3. Aspects of M&S – GEO Integration
More representative data in simulations
Reduce data prep cost, Increase effectiveness
Simulation as part of the Operation
Mission Rehearsal
Mission What if?
Managing Broader M&S Resources
Not just GeoData but Simulation Configurations/resources
Scenario
Simulation
SDI
GeoData
Geo
Providers
Geo
GeoData
Track Models
Resources
Scenarios
Simulation
Engines
Collections
Deployments
Integrated intelligence
SIGINT
IMINT
GEOINT
‘SIMINT’
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4. Aspects of M&S – GEO Integration
Drivers
The quality and resolution of GeoData has increased dramatically.
Customers are demanding more relevant simulations
Cost is a factor (produce data once, use many times
Possible Approaches
Sims access on-line OGC services. (WFS/WCS model)
Sims receive Exports of data (CDB Model)
Sims receive Agile Collections – e.g OWS Context
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5. Semantic Harmonization
Envitia’s Offerings
Catalogues Geo-assets
Provides automated conversion to mission formats. Outputs OGC Web Services and Downloads
Catalogues OpenFlight, CDB and Collada today.
Federates multiple Envitia Discovery instances and other catalogues to provide Single Point of Presence
Supports formalisation of other assets (registers)
Provides association of information, e.g. collections of data.
CATALOG
Service
CATALOG
Service
CATALOG
Service
CATALOG
Service
Semantic Harmonization
Service
CATALOG
Service
CATALOG
Service
CATALOG
Service
Registry
Service
Metadata
Harvester
Core
Registry
Intel
Weather
Data
Active
Sensors
Social Media
Maritime
Data
Land
Mapping
Coalition
Data
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6. UK – Defence SDI – Defence Geographic Services
Pb of data
1,000s users.
3rd Party Apps
Portal Access
to all GEOINT Data & Services
Core CSW EbRim
Registry
Service
Metadata
Harvester
Semantic Harmonization
DGC Feltham
DTRF
Maritime
Data
UKHO
Core CSW EbRim
Registry
Service
Metadata
Harvester
Semantic Harmonization
UKHO Taunton
OGC CSW
Catalog
MOD Secret Cloud
Official Sensitive
Cloud
Servers Synchronized for
Failover and High Availability
ArcCatalog
Land
Mapping
DGC
Active Sensors
Intel
Social Media
Weather
Aero-nautical
Coalition Data
GEOINT & Services can be added through compliance to the Functional Guide
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7. How Should M&S access Geo Resources
Direct Service Connection?
May not provide performance needed.
Data conditioning may still be required.
Only Available On-line
Via Exported Packages
Simulator specific? CDB? Run-time or transfer?
Another Model is OWS Context or a similar description document.
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8. OWS Context Anatomy
Is a light (easily exchanged) XML or JSON document.
Carries links to services plus a small amount of context data.
Provides a form of Geospatial bookmark.
With communities of interest can be used to support domain and role focused views.
Can form a recipe for a cache (can use it to define what to cache to a device).
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9. Leverages OWS Context as COP Standard
Registry
View (OWS
Context)
WMS
WPS
WFS
WCS
OWS Context Docs searchable
in registry
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10. Caching to go Off-line Geo Package WMS WMS WPS WFS WFS WCS WFS WFS OWS
Context provides the ‘recipe’
for a GeoPackage.
OWS
Context
Geo
Package
WMS
WMS
WPS
WFS
WFS
WCS
WFS
WFS
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11. Caching to go Off-line Simulation System CDB WMS WMS WPS WFS WFS WCS
Context provides the ‘recipe’
for a GeoPackage.
Simulation
System
OWS
Context
CDB
WMS
WMS
WPS
WFS
WFS
WCS
WFS
WFS
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12. Other Use Cases Simulation as an ‘INT’ (part of the COP)
Managing Simulation Assets
Modularity of Standards will support this
Research project for UK MOD
Thales/SEA Lead
Focussing on cataloguing all simulation assets.
Can define a simulation configuration using assets in the Registry.
Can deploy a simulation quickly from the ‘inventrory’ using orchestration tools looking at the Registry
Community Acceptance of less conditioned data
Cataloguing of Simulation Assets in the SDI
Understanding of the uncertainty in the simulation
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