Data Analysis Visualization Environment™ (DaVE™) is an interactive, three-dimensional simulated environment within which data is visualized, analyzed, and packaged for presentation. Data from varied and even disparate sources can be combined, modeled, and represented in a single coherent environment. Facilitating this capability, CSCI provides data transformation services allowing externally produced, third-party data to be seamlessly agglomerated into this environment. A byproduct of this capability is the ability to quickly integrate new data sets, visualization concepts, analytical capabilities, and experimental models into a continually evolving simulated world.
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CSCI conceived and developed a data analysis visualization environment in direct support of its analytical and engineering services. Its primary contributions to these services are:
- Improving the presentation and clarity of analytical results produced by external models
- Improving the efficiency of analytical work
- Reducing the time-to-market of analytically driven and engineering based solutions
The environment integrates time-driven entity representations, such as vehicles, missiles, or anything else that navigates in a real-world environment. Furthermore, the capability allows battle-space planning and sandboxing through force-level lay-downs and route planning. Complex static and dynamically variant visual geometries representing fields of regard, antenna patterns, error ellipsoids, and aspect-dependent three-dimensional radar cross-section are fully supported. All dynamic models are controllable using simulated and real-time playback.
The environment provides a solid framework for modeling and visually representing arbitrarily complex communications networks. Currently integrated network components include radar systems and skeleton support for tracking systems. This framework is highly extensible, allowing for the rapid development and deployment of additional network models. The time required to go from concept to operable and analyzable capability is on the order of hours or days—offering tremendous agility difficult to match with similar tools.
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The environment is underpinned by sophisticated WGS-84 spherical Earth and 6-DoF navigation models. Within this framework, the visualization capability models terrain and elevation data using government standard DTED, and clutter using USGS global land cover data. This information is both visually and analytically integrated into the simulated environment, providing a common frame of reference within which all other information is visualized. With regard to the Earth model, represented battle-spaces can be as small as several meters or as large as several thousand miles. The environment is entirely scalable and customizable to an analyst’s specific needs. Interactive and immersive, the environment is modeled in rich three-dimensional color and depth. The analyst’s window into this world can be fine-tuned to view and analyze modeled data from any perspective.
The environment packages analytical results and solutions in formats readily comprehensible by analysts, engineers, and managerial decision-makers. Fully integrated support for QuickTime™ allows simulated data to be captured in movies and plugged into a PowerPoint™ briefing for high impact. A separate data-logging module plugs listens to the visualization tool over networks, recording analytical data as it is simulated. Recorded data can be manipulated, pruned, and stored in a system-independent flat file format for detailed numerical analysis using scripts or spreadsheets. The capability can even be run on a laptop, facilitating live, interactive discussions about produced results in any environment.
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