A virtual reality C3 network battle management and analysis tool

Author

Brand, Jorg ; Brodeen, A. ; Coleman, Rick ; Lopez, Miguel ; Meyer, Douglas ; Preston, Kriss ; Thurber, Mike

Author_Institution

Army Res. Lab., Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1176

Abstract

A software package is being developed to improve the situation awareness of network managers by application of virtual reality (VR) techniques. The situation awareness virtual environment for command, control, and communications networks (SaveC3) package gathers network and, in a military application, battlefield status information, from disparate sources and displays the information as text and pictures. The visualization makes use of simple “glyphs” or status icons, along with tactical overlays (battle plans) and unit locations on three-dimensional terrain. The display can be by VR headset or by a three-dimensional perspective representation on a two-dimensional screen

Keywords

command and control systems; data visualisation; military communication; software packages; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; virtual reality; SaveC3 package; VR headset; battlefield status information; display; glyphs; network managers; situation awareness; situation awareness virtual environment for command control and communications networks; software package; status icons; tactical overlays; three-dimensional perspective representation; three-dimensional terrain; two-dimensional screen; unit locations; virtual reality C3 network battle management and analysis tool; visualization; Application software; Communication networks; Communication system control; Displays; Military communication; Packaging; Software development management; Software packages; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference Proceedings, 1999. MILCOM 1999. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5538-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.1999.821388

Filename

821388