CDB Common Database Reference

CDB Standard

CDB (Formerly refered to as Common Database)

CDB or as it has been commonly referred to as “Common Database” is an international standard adopted by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 2016. The content of CDB is designed to be a Modeling and Simulation database which can either be utilized as a direct run-time format or a simulation database interchange format. The standard enables worldwide coverage for multiple simulation systems (I.E. Visual, Radar, IR, Computer Generated Forces (CGF), and other sensors) within a single file based structure. The creation of CDB was originally funded by the United States Special Operations Command (US SOCOM) and developed by CAE Inc. The original industry specification implemented was CDB 3.0 and is still in broad use. The industry specification for CDB was updated twice prior to adoption as a standard by OGC. The second update to the industry standard was CDB 3.2 and currently still in use in many situations. The CDB 3.2 specification is the basis for OGC CDB 1.0 adopted in 2016. Since that time there have been two updates to the OGC CDB standard. OGC CDB 1.1 added metadata definitions while OGC CDB 1.2 provides the option to store vector information within CDB as GeoPackage files vs ESRI Shapefiles in all previous versions of CDB. CDB is designed as a global 3D digital twin representation of the planet at varying resolutions across the globe.

The current OGC CDB Standard is avaiable at . Link to OGC CDB 1.2

Link to OGC CDB SWG public wiki

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