L-3 Communications Corporation

Hughes Training, Inc.

Reed C Whittington

Cheryl Kay Nathman

Judith G Pafford

Joe Nguyen

A method and system (,) for generating database correlatable navigational charts that precisely match the simulated terrain and cultural features of a non-real-world visual database (,). The method includes the steps of reading the visual database into a data structure (,), testing for necessary contour intervals (,), converting the planar locations of each of the areal, contour line, linear and point features of the visual database into a pre-selected scale, and plotting each of these visual database features.

Database correlatable chart generation system and method

A method and system (10) for generating a reconfigurable terrain and culture database of a simulated environment. Terrain and culture data are extracted from at least one of a plurality of digital data sources (14), and the extracted data is transformed into a predetermined central database format (22) from which the extracted data may be edited (24) and formatted (28) for a particular imaging system. The terrain and culture data are not merged until formatting in order to enable rapid reskinning of the terrain or the addition of further culture detail.

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Arlington, TX, United States of America

Reed C Whittington