SEDRIS (Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification) is an international data coding standard infrastructure technology created to represent environmental data in
virtual environments
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs pose tracking and 3D near-eye displays to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video games), e ...
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Environmental data represented by SEDRIS may be concrete, such as trees and mountains, or abstract, such as the behavior of light. The infrastructure frees users to place their focus on application development and also facilitates the exchange of data for reuse and wider scrutiny.
Research into shared ways to represent environmental data was begun in the 1980s in order to permit distributed
simulation
A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or process, whereas the ...
s to work together. SEDRIS was launched in 1994 by program managers of the
United States Army's Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command and the
US Department of Defense
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Originally known as the Adv ...
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Standardization
SEDRIS has led to forming the series standards of
*ISO/IEC 18023:2006(E) Information technology - SEDRIS -
**ISO/IEC 18023-1:2006(E)
Information technology - SEDRIS - Part 1: Functional specification'
**ISO/IEC 18023-2:2006(E)
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**ISO/IEC 18023-3:2006(E)
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*ISO/IEC 18024-4:2006(E)
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*ISO/IEC 18025:2005(E)
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*ISO/IEC 18026:2006(E)
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*ISO/IEC 18041-4:2005(E)
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*ISO/IEC 18042-4:2006(E)
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See also
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3D Computer Graphics
3D computer graphics, or “3D graphics,” sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for t ...
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Environmental management system
An environmental management system (EMS) is "a system and database which integrates procedures and processes for training of personnel, monitoring, summarizing, and reporting of specialized environmental performance information to internal and exte ...
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Geographic information system
A geographic information system (GIS) is a type of database containing geographic data (that is, descriptions of phenomena for which location is relevant), combined with software tools for managing, analyzing, and visualizing those data. In a ...
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Glossary of Military Modeling & Simulation
The US DoD Modeling and Simulation Glossary (formally known as DoD 5000.59-M), was originally created in 1998. the glossary was being updated, without changing its main objective of providing a uniform language for use by the M&S community. This ...
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Environment
Environment most often refers to:
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* Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally
* Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...
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Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) is an organization dedicated to the promotion of modeling and simulation interoperability and reuse for the benefit of diverse modeling and simulation communities, including developers, ...
References
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External links
SEDRIS - Environmental Data Representation & Interchange(home page)
GIS software
Synthetic environment