ISO and OGC compliant database technology for the development of simulation object databases

Due to the wide range of tasks of modern simulation systems in military context, most simulations take place in an isolated application with preprocessed simulation data. A first step towards running cross domain simulations is to bring together the simulation data schemas. The use of international standards on data modeling, data storage and visualization is prerequisite to achieve such a system for describing, accessing and pursuing simulation data in an interoperable way. For this ambitious task standards of data modeling and simulation, namely the Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Geography Markup Language (GML) and the Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification (SEDRIS) are combined. In compliance to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) a simulation object database (SODB) which is perfectly suited for interoperable access and the use in cross domain simulations is presented.