What’s New in Carmenta Engine 5.6

The new version of Carmenta Engine provides a new, highly optimized way to render

radar plots and other dynamic information. Other major improvements include support

for the new Open Geospatial Consortium GeoPackage standard and a powerful new

off-road routing algorithm for terrain vehicles.

For a full list of the features and improvements in this release, refer to the release notes that

are included in the installation packages.

Optimized Radar Plot Rendering

The new PlotLayer component is a new type of map layer designed specifically to render

large amounts of simple point objects like radar plots.

Thanks to the highly optimized GPU accelerated rendering, PlotLayer is capable of handling

millions of plots which update their positions several times per second.

The screenshot below is from the new “Dynamic Objects” sample application which uses

PlotLayer to render the trails of rapidly moving objects.

Terrain Vehicle Routing Functionality

The new TerrainRouteOperator can calculate the optimal route for a terrain vehicle, based

on the characteristics of the vehicle.

In addition to the road network, the sophisticated calculation takes the soil strength,

roughness and slope of the terrain into account.

The real time route calculation can also avoid forbidden areas like minefields and enemy

viewsheds, making it suitable for use as decision support in a Battle Management System.

OGC GeoPackage Support

GeoPackage is an SQLite-based format that efficiently stores and transfers geographic vector

features and image tiles. It is standardised by OGC, the Open Geospatial Consortium.

In Carmenta Engine 5.6, the MapPackageDataSet has been updated to support version 1.0 of

the GeoPackage specification (12-128r10).

As a Technical Committee member of the OGC, Carmenta is dedicated

to using and promoting open standards wherever possible.

Many New Programming Samples

The Carmenta Engine SDK has been extended with a number of new programming samples

which are of course provided with full source code.

There are new sample applications that demonstrate how to access the Line of Sight and

Vertical Profile functionality, as well as an application which shows you how to handle large

numbers of dynamic objects efficiently.

The Java based samples have also been significantly extended: A new, more comprehensive

Java based "Basic Map Application" has been added, as well as Java implementations of all

the custom object samples.

The screenshots below show two of the new sample applications in action.

Other Notable Improvements

MIL-STD-2525C Support in the Tactical Extension

The Tactical Extension now supports symbols from MIL-STD-2525C

(appendix A, D and E).

The new functionality complements the existing support for MIL-STD-2525B and

NATO App-6B.

PostgreSQL/PostGIS Database Support

The new PostgreSqlDataSet allows you to natively read spatial data from

PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases.

NATO AML Support

AML, Additional Military Layers, is a NATO-endorsed standard designed to enhance

situational awareness in the marine and littoral environment.

The S57DataSet now supports reading S-57 AML data versions 2.1 and 3.0.

Improved Interoperability in the OGC CSW Client

The Carmenta Engine Catalog Extension makes it possible to connect to servers that

implement the OGC Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) interface.

The interoperability of the CSW client has been improved – it is now possible to connect to

many more CSW implementations.

Simplified Colour Table Handling

RasterVisualizer can now automatically interpolate between the colours in the colour table,

avoiding the need to manually specify colour ramps. It can also dynamically adjust the colour

table to the range of the raster values actually occurring in the raster, ensuring that the full

colour range is always used.

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