Digital Mapping: Fact or Fiction.

Abstract

The Defense Mapping Agency has passed the point where we provide only the traditional paper maps and charts used by the Armed Forces. Many of the traditional, manual, labor intensive production processes currently in use are no longer cost effective in supporting present readiness requirements. DMA is now heavily into the production of digital data to support the navigation and guidance requirements of new advanced systems. To meet the ever increasing sophistication of these new systems, as well as updating our capability to support our traditional products, DMA is in the midst of the most ambitious modernization in the history of cartography. While the all digital softcopy production system is today still a fiction, the Defense Mapping Agency has committed itself to make this fiction a fact by the early 1990's. Keywords: High resolution; User needs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA167571

Entities

People

  • Dennis P. Franklin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cartography
  • Change Detection
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Data
  • Feature Extraction
  • Geographic Regions
  • Identification
  • Observatories
  • Radar
  • Side Looking Radar
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Strategic Security Studies