TARGET: Training Analysis Repository and Graphical Evaluation Toolset

TARGET is the software toolset that was defined and developed to support the analysis and visualization requirements of the VTR project . The TARGET software was written in Visual Basic and includes the following features:

		an easy-to-use interface that allows the user to select various subsets of training data and plot them in a variety of graphs and charts
		2-D visualizations of battle timelines and 2-D replay of battles
		3-D replay of battles using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML).

The inputs to TARGET are simulation data that have been reduced to a standard ASCII format called LEAF.

To learn more and to see screen shots of various features, see the following papers online:

		TARGET: An Analysis Environment for Aggregated Simulation Training Data. This paper describes TARGET in more detail and includes a number of screen shots of the graphing and 2D visualization functionality.
		Battle Explorer: VRML Technology for Replaying and Analyzing DIS Exercises. This paper focuses on the 3-D visualization of simulation data.
		You can see screen shots of the 3-D VRML replay in a short paper describing an extension of these ideas - the Remote O/C concept, using a 3-D collaborative environment to support distributed trainers and trainees.