Study of the interoperability between the Common Database specification and the Open Geospatial specifications

本项目的目的是研究公共数据库(CDB)规范和开放地理空间规范之间的互操作性。其长期目标是为通用地形数据库开发一种新的国际开放标准，该标准可用于运行时合成环境生成和用于建模和仿真的地形数据库存储库。 用于个人、船员、集体训练和任务演练的现代模拟越来越多地联网在一起，组成虚拟和建设性模拟的丰富联邦。为了增强军事仿真的真实感和公平性，建模与仿真的终端用户群体越来越需要“即插即用”的综合环境数据库的重用和通用的综合环境局部表示。通用数据库(CDB)规范是由CAE公司维护的特别行业标准。虽然它被广泛采用和实施，但它不是一个开放的标准。虽然CDB被证明是有用的，但用户社区要求公认的标准开发组织(SDO)(如开放地理空间联盟(OGC))提供基于共识的开放标准。该项目的成果将有助于形成新的OGC标准，该标准将被集成到CAE公司的模拟软件中，并最终满足客户对开放标准的需求。这一新的标准规范将使CAE公司的技术更具竞争力和效率，因为它将增强动态M&S应用程序的真实性和效率，并使可共享、可重用和可再利用的“即插即用”合成环境数据库的愿景成为可能。

The objective of this project is to study the interoperability between the Common Database (CDB) specification and the Open Geospatial specifications. The long-term objective is to develop a new international open standard for a common terrain database that is useful for both run-time synthetic environment generation and terrain database repositories for modeling and simulation. Modern simulations used for individual, crew, and collective training and mission rehearsal are increasingly networked together to compose rich federations of virtual and constructive simulations. The modeling and simulation end-user community increasingly requires "plug and play" synthetic environment database re-use and a common synthetic environment local representation to enhance realism and "fair fight" concepts in military simulation. The Common DataBase (CDB) Specification is an ad-hoc industry standard maintained by CAE Inc. Although it is widely adopted and implemented, it is not an open standard. While CDB is proven useful, user communities demand consensus-based open standards from recognized Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), such as the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The outcomes of the project will contribute to a new OGC standard that will be integrated into CAE Inc's simulation software and ultimately meet their customers' demand for open standards. This new standard specification will make CAE Inc's technologies more competitive and effective because it will enhance the realism and efficiency in dynamic M&S applications, and enable the vision of "plug-and-play" synthetic environment database that can be shared, reused, and repurposed.