Automatically generating a distributed 3D virtual Battlespace using USMTF and XML-MTF air tasking orders, Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
By: Mark W. Murray, Jason M. Quigley
Contributors: Quigley, Jason M.; Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Description: For the past three decades, the Department of Defense (DoD) has used the U.S. Message Text Format (USMTF) as the primary means to exchange information and to achieve interoperability between joint and coalition forces. To more effectively exchange and share data, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the lead agency for the USMTF, is actively engaged in extending the USMTF standard with a new data sharing technology called Extensible Markup Language (XML). This work translates and synthesizes Air Tasking Order (ATO) data messages written in XML into a three-dimensional (3D) air attack plan within a virtual environment through the use of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): , Brutzman, Donald P.  ; Boger, Dan.

"June 2000."

Thesis (M.S. in System Technology)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-374)

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