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.
With Defense Mapping, you can
- Reduce the time needed to compile and maintain military data and maps.
- Capture and distribute best management practices across the organization to ensure data consistency from site to site.
- Simplify the production and publication of your final map using the included library of cartographic symbols and map templates.
- Implement in-process quality assurance by leveraging relational geodatabase models, extended attribute validation rules, and automated geometry validation.
- Efficiently perform database maintenance, quality control, and high-quality cartographic output for defense-specific products.
- Standardize cartographic production with efficiency-focused map series design and layout tools, rule-based symbology, and cartographic editing tools.
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 |