What is Defense Mapping Solution?

ESRI Defense Mapping streamlines GIS data and map production for defense mapping agencies and contractors by providing tools that enable specialized data collection and attribution, geodatabase maintenance, data validation, and the production of standardized defense cartographic products. Defense Mapping provides the geodatabase models, topologies, business rules, cartographic representations, and map templates required for many defense mapping products, including Topographic Line Map (TLM), Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP) Derived Graphic (MDG), Image City Map (ICM), and more.

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Data specifications supported by Defense Mapping

Defense Mapping allows you to work with several data specifications. These specifications can be used solely for data production or have a hard-copy format associated with them.

Data specification name

Description

Hard-copy product

Foundation Feature Data (FFD)

Used for importing legacy FFD data

N/A

Geobase

United States Air Force common installation picture database

N/A

Geofidelis

United States Marine Corps common installation picture database

N/A

Geonames

Geographic names

N/A

GIFD

Allows production of data that is compatible with the NGA master database

N/A

Image City Map (ICM)

Used for production of ICMs

ICMs

Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP)

Allows production of data that can be used for coproduction with other nations for NGA

MGCP Derived Graphic (MDG)

Stereo Airfield Collections (SAC)

Used to produce SDSFIE-compliant data

N/A

Topographic Feature Data Management (TFDM)

Used to collect topographic features at different scales in accordance with the Topographic Data Store (TDS) Entity Catalog (EC) (The TDS EC is a subset of the National System for Geospatial Intelligence [NSG] Entity Catalog and contains primarily topographic features.)

N/A

Theatre Geospatial Database (TGD) - Global Operations

Used by the Army for data collection

N/A

TGD - Strategic Operations

Used by the Army for data collection

N/A

TGD - Tactical Operations

Used by the Army for data collection

N/A

TGD - Urban Operations

Used by the Army for data collection

N/A

Urban Vector Map (UVMap)

Used for import of legacy UVMap data

City Graphics

VPF Interim Terrain Data (VITD)

Used for import of VITD data

N/A

Vector Map Level 0 (VMap0)

Used to import legacy 1:1,000,000-scale data

Operational Navigation Chart

Vector Map Level 1 (VMap1)

Used for import of legacy VMap1 1:250,000-scale data

Joint Operation Graphics

Vector Map Level 2 (VMap2)

Used to create 1:50,000- and 1:100,000-scale data

Topographic Line Maps

Data specifications supported by Defense Mapping

9/16/2010