Note: SEDRIS used to be an acronym for Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification but it is currently used as a noun.

SEDRIS main sponsor is the DoD Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&S CO), formerly the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office

Defense Modeling and Simulation Office

The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office is "the catalyst organization for Department of Defense modeling and simulation and ensures that modeling and simulation technology development is consistent with other related initiatives."...

 (DMSO). It is intended to enable the interchange of synthetic data including terrain, features and models.

SEDRIS technologies provide the means to represent environmental data (terrain

Terrain

Terrain, or land relief, is the vertical and horizontal dimension of land surface. When relief is described underwater, the term bathymetry is used...

, ocean

Ocean

An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...

, air

Earth's atmosphere

The atmosphere of Earth is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity. The atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation, warming the surface through heat retention , and reducing temperature extremes between day and night...

 and space), and promote the unambiguous, loss-less and non-proprietary interchange of environmental data

Data

The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...

.

SEDRIS is fundamentally about:

1. the representation of environmental data, and
2. the interchange of environmental data sets.

The SEDRIS SDK is a software development

Software development

Software development is the development of a software product...

  kit available in both binary and source code formats. Both C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

 and C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

 programming interfaces are provided.

Standardization

SEDRIS has led to forming the series standards of

• ISO/IEC 18023:2006(E) Information technology - SEDRIS -
  • ISO/IEC 18023-1:2006(E) Information technology - SEDRIS - Part 1: Functional specification
  • ISO/IEC 18023-2:2006(E) Information technology - SEDRIS - Part 2: Abstract transmittal format
  • ISO/IEC 18023-3:2006(E) Information technology - SEDRIS - Part 3: Transmittal format binary encoding
• ISO/IEC 18024-4:2006(E) Information technology - SEDRIS language bindings - Part 4: C
• ISO/IEC 18025:2005(E) Information technology - Environmental Data Coding Specification (EDCS)
• ISO/IEC 18026:2006(E) Information technology - Spatial Reference Model (SRM)
• ISO/IEC 18041-4:2005(E) Information technology - EDCS language bindings - Part 4: C
• ISO/IEC 18042-4:2006(E) Information technology - Spatial Reference Model (SRM) language bindings - Part 4: C

See also

• 3D Computer Graphics
  3D computer graphics
  3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...
  
  
• Environmental management system
  Environmental Management System
  Environmental management system refers to the management of an organization's environmental programs in a comprehensive, systematic, planned and documented manner....
  
  
• Geographic information system
  Geographic Information System
  A geographic information system, geographical information science, or geospatial information studies is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographically referenced data...
  
  
• Glossary of Military Modeling & Simulation
• Environment
  Natural environment
  The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....
  
  
• Simulation
  Simulation
  Simulation is the imitation of some real thing available, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of a selected physical or abstract system....
  
  
• Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization
  Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization
  The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization is an organization dedicated to the promotion of modeling and simulation interoperability and reuse for the benefit of diverse M&S communities, including developers, procurers, and users, world-wide.-History:The Simulation Interoperability...