Static Format Terrain Conversion Technology

One of the biggest challenges in simulation today is the correlation of an existing visual or non-visual 3-D terrain with a new visual or non-visual 3-D terrain, e.g., new out-the-window visual terrain with an existing SAF terrain. Symmetry can help with your correlation challenges.

Another challenge is capturing the value invested in existing 3-D terrain and airports (many hand modeled).  Symmetry is ready to help you recover your labor investment by bringing that extensive labor forward into widely used GIS source formats to be reused/recycled easily into new products.  At the same time, Symmetry is fast, easy to use and cost effective. 

The introduction of next generation dynamically constructed 3-D terrain viewers like Diamond Visionic's GenesisIG presents the newest challenge of correlating between static format systems and entirely run-time generated terrains. Symmetry is working with these next generation 3-D viewer vendors to assure correlation with existing static systems.

What is Symmetry?

Symmetry is an easy-to-use tool that makes converting your existing static 3-D terrains and airports into ESRI GIS formats simple.

At the same time finding and correcting errors in the original database such as T-vertices, holes, unshared edges, and more.

Also uniquely allowing you to seamlessly combine terrain and model information into more complete representations in the output product. 

Symmetry supports the following formats for ingest:

• OpenFlight 3-D Terrain

• JCATS Terrain
  

• Presagis / Multigen MetaFlight
  

• OneSAF OTF Terrain (OneSAF Terrain Format)
  

• CTDB (Compact Terrain Data Base)
•  ESRI Shape Vectors & ESRI and NGA Elevation
  

   

Symmetry supports the following formats for export:

• ESRI Grid Elevation
•  ESRI Shape Vectors
• OpenFlight 3-D Models
• TIFF generic textures
• GEOTIFF Imagery
• US Army OTF OneSAF (including new OneSAF 3.0 / OTF 7.0)
• CTDB (Compact Terrain Data Base)  

Contact Cogent3D Sales to find out how to start your new project with the data from your old project.