Missionland, a multinational co-operation program to construct and share a generic mission simulation environment
conference paper
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.
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.
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TNO Identifier
273963
Article nr.
09E-SIW-010
Source title
2009 Euro Simulation Interoperability Workshop - Euro SIW, July 13-16, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.