Geotypical Terrain Generation (GTG)

Cost-effective Synthetic Terrain for Training, Modeling, and Simulation

The need to perform training exercises in politically neutral environments makes the use of geotypical terrain an attractive option. Advancements in geotypical terrain generation (GTG) allow for rapid, cost-effective synthetic terrain that can be specifically designed and built to be characteristic of virtually any real-world area.

Political neutrality is key to effective joint training and exercise scenarios. By using proven and streamlined GTG tools and services, realistic, geotypical, politically neutral terrain can be developed for a small fraction of the cost of traditional data collection techniques.

Useful in Numerous Training and Simulation Applications

Using a proven geotypical GTG methodology and toolkit, SAIC can develop realistic terrain scenarios for use in a number of training and simulation applications.

• Urban reconnaissance and combat training
• Theater-level joint planning exercises
• Modeling and simulation of synthetic environments
• Supported data layers: Political and Ocean, Boundry, Population, Transportation, Hydrology, Elevation, Industry, Utilities, and Vegetation
• Analysis applications, including hydrographic and aeronautical analysis

The SAIC GTG process supports many DoD and industry-standard GIS formats.

• ESRI geodatabases and shapefiles
• Vector Product Format (VPF)
• Compressed/Arc Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG/ADRG)
• GeoTiff
• JPEG2000

Benefits

Benefits of the SAIC GTG process include:

• GTG characteristic of real-world areas
• Political neutrality of geotypical areas reduces sensitivity of training and modeling and simulation activities
• Generates industry standard and DoD formats, including geodatabases, shapefiles, VPF, and CADRG/ADRG
• Generates cartographic quality contours, drainages, and watersheds
• Generates associated hard copy mapping products