In many years of research cooperation, VRVis is developing XR solutions for strategic mission planning together with the Institute for Military Geoscience of the Austrian Armed Forces. To provide reliable local knowledge and act as a planning tool for missions of all kinds, the VR application combines military geoscience with visual computing. The benefits of virtual environments are many: they provide a safe and secure way, based on real-world data, to explore mission areas - no matter how risky or distant - up close and in first-person or bird view. This makes collaborative and location-independent analysis, planning and presentation possible in just one tool.
The power of the application is evident in a new GIS-XR pipeline that massively accelerates the creation of large-scale terrains and complex urban scenes by importing geographic data directly into the VR application. This involves generating terrain models from large geographic data such as aerial and satellite imagery, which can be loaded into the milGEOVA application via a GeoTIFF interface. The innovation of the GIS direct integration offers the possibility of simple, fast and above all automated visualization of large areas. Without any manual post-processing, brigade strips are visualized in VR - which saves an enormous amount of time and improves efficiency in the strategic and collaborative planning of missions and operations.
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Start: 05.2022
End: 04.2023
Institute for Military Geoscience of Austrian Armed Forces, Federal Ministry of Defence
New technologies and security policy developments bring a paradigm shift for the Austrian armed forces. The use of information and communication measures entails both challenges and opportunities: for combat, security and rescue manoeuvres.
Development of extended reality technologies to create virtual maneuver scenarios based on real geographic data.
