The Terrain Analyst Work Station,

Abstract

To fight and win the AirLand battle, tactical decision aids (TDA) must be rapidly supplied to the commander. The Army plans to field the Digital Topographic Support System (DTSS) which will utilize automated terrain analysis techniques to exploit digital terrain data to quickly provide TDA's to the commander. The coverage and content of the digital terrain data supplied by the Defense Mapping Agency will be influenced by national priorities and manpower and by the battle itself. Techniques to meet the need for creating, updating and intensifying digital terrain data are being developed on the Engineer Topographic Laboratories (ETL) Terrain Analyst Work Station (TAWS) for incorporation into DTSS. ETL scientists have assembled the TAWS using advanced off-the-shelf computer hardware, a government-owned geographic information system (GIS) data extraction hardware and supporting software. The GIS has been designed for data base creation and updating, analysis and product generation. A series of demonstration of TAWS capabilities will be used with the results of laboratory tests to define and validate data extraction, update and revision capabilities needed for the fielded DTSS. TSWS will also support the Corps of Engineers AirLand Battlefield Environment program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA167473

Entities

People

  • Richard B. Marth

Organizations

  • Geospatial Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysts
  • Combat Forces
  • Combat Operations
  • Computers
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Digital Data
  • Employment
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Graphics
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Operations
  • Operating Systems
  • Personnel Management
  • Tactical Decision Aids
  • Work Stations

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  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.