Army Geospatial Data Master Plan

Abstract

Project C77 addresses the implementation and acceleration of objectives of the Army Geospatial Data Integrated Master Plan (AGDIMP), approved by the Chief of Staff, Army in April 2005. The AGDIMP provides the framework for generating, analyzing and distributing geospatial data for battle management operations, training, and mission rehearsal. The AGDIMP also provides the procedures for identifying and refining Army geospatial resource requirements. Geospatial data provide soldiers with the framework and background for displaying the location of friendly and enemy forces and the location of other critical features on the battlefield. Geospatial data -- used in Army command and control systems, course of action analysis, mission rehearsal tools, simulators and simulations -- provide insights on how the physical environment will impact combat operations. This minimizes exposure of soldiers to hostile environments. The AGDIMP describes the operations for a complete, integrated network-centric enterprise for managing and updating geospatial data required for the Army's Future Force. Although this plan encompasses most of the issues of an enterprise solution for geospatial needs and concerns, it does not contain the full level of detail or complexity required to be considered complete. The AGDIMP includes all activities starting with data acquisition from multiple sources (including raw sensor feeds from national sensors to soldier/platform level) and concluding with accurate, robust, and timely geospatial (terrain-related) data management, integration, and conversion tools that support multiple battle command, training, and mission-rehearsal applications. The AGDIMP does not include the algorithms and functions used by the applications themselves to produce finished battle command or intelligence products. The AGDIMP will become part of a much larger effort to integrate geospatial activities across all Services while documenting the complex framework for a "net ready" geospatial information and service architecture, an environment in which the Army's current and future forces must operate to achieve information dominance within the total battle space. This larger effort is currently being developed in conjunction with the Joint Forces Command and the other Services, including Special Operations Command. FY 2016 funding continues development efforts associated with the Ground-Warfighter Geospatial Data Model(GGDM) and Geospatial Data Standards.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: C77_0604760A_5_2040_PB_2016

Tags

Readers

• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Military Training and Readiness Simulation

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space