Geospatial Transition Plan Implementation Team Update

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Geospatial Transition Plan Implementation Team
Update

• presented to
• The Army Geospatial Conference
• 4 May 2005

Ms. Karen Ruppe Team Lead
This briefing is UNCLASSIFIED
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Overview

• Background of Geospatial Transition Plan
  Implementation Team
• GTP IT activities update
• Army Issues
• Geospatial Intelligence Project Korea (GIP-K)
• Future Combat Systems requirements
• Joint Geospatial Enterprise Service (J-GES)
• Mission-Specific Data
• TEMs
• Prototypes
• Foundation-based Operations Management Authority
  (FOMA)
• Summary

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Geospatial Transition Plan Implementation Team
(GTP IT)

• Established in January 2002 to facilitate GTP
  implementation across the community
• Honest broker between NGA and the community
• A Communications Team
• Regular meetings with community GIS Officers
• Technical exchange meetings and tiger teams to
  develop Mission-Specific Data
• Other documents, briefings, meetings, and
  instructional material
• Provide community updates on GTP implementation

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GTP IT ActivitiesArmy Issues (1 of 2)

• Geospatial Intelligence Project Korea (GIP-K)
• Provide staff support for Foundation-based
  Operations (FBO) Business Case development
  prove the readiness responsiveness concept
• Provide staff support to plan for the
  Intelligence Campaign Plan during Ulchi Focus
  Lens 05 (UFL)
• Identify and obtain non-NGA data for UFL 05
  plan to test value-adding and conflation
• Develop the NGA Warfighter Support Plan SOP
• Future Combat Systems
• NGA is assisting Army in refining geospatial
  intelligence requirements for FCS
• Most rigorous requirements driving NGA future
  systems development

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GTP IT ActivitiesArmy Issues (2 of 2)

• Joint Geospatial Enterprise Service (J-GES)
• NGA is participating in this Army-sponsored,
  JFCOM effort to develop
• Standardized formats
• Architectures
• Data structures
• Common core software capabilities for the
  military Services

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GTP IT Activities (cont.)Mission-Specific Data
(MSD)

• Intensified Foundation Data with greater detail
  (density and resolution) or additional features
  and/or attributes to meet specific mission
  requirement.
• High-resolution digital surface models
• High-resolution orthoimagery
• Expanded or finer-grained feature/attribute
  content
• The stated future warfighter requirement
• A validated Service requirement for future
  systems
• A critical element of Foundation-based operations

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MSD Where We Are
Non-Interoperable Legacy Products
Aero Charts
Topo Maps
Combat Charts
DNC
City Maps
TOD
NGA Profile of the Feature Attribute Coding
Catalog
The universe of NGA feature/attributes
Unified Profile for Mission-Specific Data
Agreed-upon set of interoperable feature and
attribute definitions
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MSD - What We Have Done/Are Doing
Littoral
Ground
Urban
Aero
Ocean
Mission Environments
Conflate many representations of a single feature
into one representation for that feature at each
MSD Level
MSD Level 1
MSD Level 2
Unified Profile for MSD
MSD Level 3
Derived from five disparate environment profiles
MSD Level 4
MSD Level 5
Five Levels of Resolution
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Populating Feature Content
NGA In-house
Coproducers
Value-adding by customers
Commodity Data Sources
Integrated Vector Features in compliance with MSD
Data Content Specifications based on the Unified
Profile of MSD
MSD Levels
Numbers of features
Defined by NGA Services
Ratios are notional
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MSD Status of Actions

• Unified Profile of MSD Involves the entire
  community, since production and any maintenance
  will be a collaborative effort
• Prototypes being produced over Inchon in support
  of GIP-K
• MSD 12 will complete by end of May (strategic
  planning)
• MSD 3 complete (tactical view/TLM)
• MSD 4 TEM complete, beginning extraction
  expected to complete in August
• MSD 5 TEM in planning now
• Incorporates urban, intelligence, and modeling
  simulation

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MSD 3 Prototype

• Sample

UNCLASSIFIED
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OVERVIEW Incheon, South Korea area of interest
with CADRG display of 1250,000 scale JOG dated
2003. Approximately a 5 X 15 minute cell
outlined in red.
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ENLARGED VIEW Incheon, South Korea area of
interest with CADRG display of 1250,000 scale
JOG dated 2003. Approximately a 5 X 15 minute
cell outlined in red.
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FURTHER ENLARGED VIEW Incheon, South Korea area
of interest with CADRG display of three 150,000
scale TLMs dated 1997 2000. Overlaid on a
CADRG display of 1250,000 scale JOG dated 2003.
Approximately a 5 X 15 minute cell outlined in
red.
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AREA OF INTEREST Incheon, South Korea area of
interest with CADRG display of three 150,000
scale TLMs dated 1997 2000. Exact area of
coverage outlined in yellow 37o2916.8
37o3443.7 N latitude by 126o508.6
126o5049.2 E longitude.
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Open water oceans, lakes
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Linear area drainage features
rivers/streams, ditches
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Tree vegetation area features
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Aeronautical area features runways, taxiways,
apron/hardstands
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Built up area features
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Linear road network features
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Building point features
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Complete MSD 3 level feature data
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MSD 5 Process Ahead

• Develop core Communities of Interest (COIs)
• MS, Special Operations, Intelligence, Facilities
• Develop draft data content specification for MSD
  5 through TEMs
• Refine data content specification
• Build Prototype

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GTP IT in the Future

• Reorganized within Production Directorates Data
  Generation Office
• Effective end of May
• Working for John Liebsch, former Team Lead
• Retain independent status and mission
• Currently devoted full time to FOMA in Office of
  Geospatial Intelligence Management (OGM)
• Significant commitment
• Continuing communications mission with customers
• Major contributor to the Strategic Implementation
  Plan

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Summary A Recap

• Director, NGA fully supports the GTP and our
  coordinated efforts
• NGA committed to MSD prototype production
• GTP IT to transition with FOMA
• Mission continues

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We must get MSD right to fight tomorrows
battles, enable transformation, and support the
Future Force