Accommodation Engineering and Decision Aide (AEDA)

"Several international 3-D Anthropometric data resources have been developed and are now available for use in a variety of industry and government applications. A significant knowledge base of 3-D whole body data sets has been developed thoroughmeasurements of U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps personnel, and data collection efforts such as the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Research Network (ARN) program and the Civilian American and European Anthropometric Resources (CAESAR) survey andothers. Now that these resources are available, several challenges have been identified with the access and use of these 3-D Data resources. These challenges include:O Accessing 3-D resources found in multiple international locationsO Searching a 3-D data resourceO Finding information across multiple 3-D data resourcesO Identifying useful information from vast data resourcesO Inputting new information into 3-D data resourcesThe purpose of this Phase-I SBIR project is to identify technology concepts and approaches to solving several of these challenges. The continuing advancements in Web-based internet technologies, advanced multi-dimensional databases, expert systems, andfederated data access technologies can be integrated to create an environment highly conducive to increasing the access and understanding of 3D Data for a variety of industry and government purposes. Developing tools to increase access and searchcapabilities