Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), a global developer of advanced military simulation and training software, announces the launch of its new technology product, Mantle ETM. Mantle Enterprise Terrain Management (ETM) is a custom-built platform based on proven COTS components and expert design/development services for creating simulated terrain for training, mission rehearsal, visualization and terrain analysis.
“Mantle ETM is based on the terrain pipeline work we’ve been doing with the US Army. We’re very excited to present this technology to our entire customer base, the advantages will be truly compelling”, says BISim President, Arthur Alexion.
A Mantle ETM installation delivers a cloud-capable custom terrain pipeline that works with your data, processes, servers, and runtimes, integrating with your existing terrain capabilities or delivering a full end-to-end terrain creation and management solution from scratch.
“One of Mantle ETM’s use cases is taking geospatial terrain data from almost any source and providing a high fidelity, procedurally improved base globe to multiple simulations or visualization runtimes. This essentially makes it an important tool for creating a Digital Twin of anywhere on Earth”, says Earl Laamanen, TerraSim’s Technical Director.
Terrain Challenges
Making terrain for high-fidelity simulation is difficult and challenging. Searching out good source data, building correlated terrain for multiple runtimes, synchronizing data between different simulation clients, storing the vast amount of source data, utilizing classified and other restricted data, and editing data “on the fly”. Historically, these challenges have resulted in separate specialist teams building terrain data disconnected from the point-of-need users together with high costs and long lead times to obtain the required finished terrain. Mantle ETM solves these challenges.
