Export To MGCP (Defense Mapping)

Summary

Exports Topographic Features Data Management (TFDM) DatasetAreas and CollectionAreas features to Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP) Cell, Subregion, and Source metadata feature classes in an MGCP geodatabase.

Usage

• This tool creates new features in the MGCP metadata feature classes. Existing features in the MGCP geodatabase are not overwritten. The new features have some attribute values from the source TFDM data.

• The tool sets the following four attributes in new features in the Cell feature class:

  MGCP Cell field name	Value written to field
  CELLID	Generated dynamically from geometry
  CURI	https://www.mgcp.ws/ + CELLID
  CLSTAT	Data conforms to a 50k or 100k density extraction from imagery using the LTDS-DCS v3.0, with ancillary source data used as needed to supplement the population of attribute that cannot be identified from imagery.
  CCMNT	Standard Cell

• The tool generates MGCP Subregions from unique combinations of TFDM DatasetAreas EQC and RCG attribute values.

• The tool sets the following four attributes in new features in the Subregion feature class. Some of these attribute values are copied from the TFDM DatasetAreas features.

  MGCP Subregion field name	TFDM DatasetAreas Value
  SUBRID	Generated dynamically from CELLID and a subregion count
  SSCALE	DatasetAreas.EQC
  SORIGA	DatasetAreas.RCG
  SORIGC	DatasetAreas.RCG

  Subregion feature class fields list and values.

• MGCP Source features are generated from TFDM CollectionAreas subtypes 0 (nonspatial) and 1 (spatial).

• The tool sets the following three attributes in new features in the MGCP Source feature class. All three attributes are copied from the TFDM CollectionAreas features.

  MGCP Source feature class field name	TFDM CollectionAreas value
  SOURCE	CollectionAreas.ZI001_NSP (nonspatial); CollectionAreas.ZI001_SSY (spatial)
  SOURCE_DATE	CollectionAreas.ZI001_NSD (nonspatial); CollectionAreas.ZI001_SSD (spatial)
  SOURCE_IDENTIFIER	CollectionAreas.ZI001_NSN (nonspatial); CollectionAreas.ZI001_SSN (spatial)

Syntax

ExportToMGCP_defense (in_dataset_areas, in_cell_features)

Parameter	Explanation	Data Type
in_dataset_areas	The input TFDM DatasetAreas features. The tool reads CollectionAreas features from the same workspace that stores these features.	Feature Layer
in_cell_features	The MGCP Cell features the tool will write to. The tool reads Subregion and Source features from the same workspace that stores these features.	Feature Layer

Code Sample

ExportToMGCP example (stand-alone Python script)

The following script creates new Cell, Subregion, and Source features from TFDM DatasetAreas and CollectionAreas feature classes.

# ExportToMGCP.py
# Description: Exports TFDM metadata to MGCP
# Date: October 2010

# Import arcpy and the defense mapping toolbox
import arcpy
arcpy.CheckOutExtension("defense")
arcpy.ImportToolbox(r'C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.0\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Defense Mapping Tools.tbx')

# variables for data paths and feature layers
DatasetAreas = "C:\\data\\tfdm.gdb\\LTDS\\DatasetAreas"
Cell = "C:\\data\\TFDM_Metadata_Tool_Data\\Import\\Import_MX_MGCP_TRD3.gdb\\MGCP_Metadata\\Cell"
DatasetArea_features = "DatasetAreas_Layer"
MGCP_Cell_features = "Cell_Layer"

# TFDM DatasetArea feature layer
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(DatasetAreas, DatasetArea_features)

# MGCP Cell Feature Layer
arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(Cell, MGCP_Cell_features)

# Export TFDM metadata To MGCP
arcpy.ExportToMGCP_defense(DatasetArea_features, MGCP_Cell_features)

Environments

This tool does not use any geoprocessing environments

Licensing Information

ArcView: No

ArcEditor: Requires Defense Mapping

ArcInfo: Requires Defense Mapping