NIMAs

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NIMAs MSDS Vision
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Topics

• NIMAs view of MSDS
• Specifics on how NIMA plans to process MSDS
• Requirements
• Production
• Requests/Delivery

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NIMAs MSDS Vision

• Establish a web based collaborative requirements
  management environment.
• Provide a intensification to Foundation Data
  (imagery, elevation feature) to support a
  mission specific need.
• Provide MSDS Just in Time except over training
  areas and where Commands identify critical
  requirements.
• Deliver MSDS as softcopy or hardcopy information
  as requested by customer.
• Deliver an information management and
  dissemination environment capable of discovery
  and retrieval of geospatial information at the
  coverage/feature level.
• Customer uses MSDS direct or fuses components of
  MSDS to satisfy mission specific needs with the
  ability to value-add.

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Mission Specific Data
THE HARD PART

• Generated to support specific mission need
• Densification of Foundation Data
• Just in Time - Responsiveness
• Supports hardcopy product generation

Higher Resolution Controlled Image Base
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Requirements

• Web based collaborative requirements management
  environment will be developed to accommodate MSDS
  requirement submissions - Requirements Analysis
  System (RAS) replacement
• Requirements will have to be managed and
  prioritized at the Div/Corps/Unified Command
  levels prior to submission to NIMA. Most
  duplicate requirements should be resolved by the
  Unified Command prior to submission to NIMA.

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Whats a Feature MSDSTomorrow?
TODAY
TOMORROW
?
What are the essential elements of
geospatial information needed for the mission at
hand?
FOUNDATION DATA
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MSDS Production CapabilitiesWhats Possible?

• Extraction of any combination of features and
  attributes
• Can extract finish data by
• Digital finishing in VPF format (vector)
• Digital finishing as view in ADRG or CADRG format
  (raster)
• Hardcopy finishing in standard format or custom
  view

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MSDS Delivery CapabilitiesWhats Possible?

• Data discovery and retrieval will be via the NIMA
  Gateway until the NIMA Information Access
  Services (IAS) is operational and Image Product
  Libraries, Command Image Libraries, and NIMA
  Libraries host geospatial data.
• Can finish deliver MSDS coverages
  incrementally.
• Finished digital MSDS will be immediately placed
  on the appropriate NIMA Gateway/Image Library
  server once complete for pull or push
  dissemination.

TODAY Products Coverage Possible
TOMORROW Products, Coverages, Features
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Feature MSDS Recommendations

• Determine features and attributes required to
  support terrain visualization and decision aids
  for specific missions.
• Develop a manageable number of MSDS levels that
  can support the operational concepts of AV 2010.
  Less dense levels of MSDS should be subsets of
  denser MSDS to increase production efficiency.
• Focus development of initial/near-term MSDS
  candidates based on existing features coverages
  in existing product specifications and
  prototypes.
• Requirements should address feature data of
  increasing density to support deployment
  timelines expected under AV 2010.
• Consider the power of FD and/or MSDS fusion - may
  eliminate need for certain features if varying
  MSDS levels of CIB and elevation can provide the
  same information.
• Spiral develop MSDS and fused data through
  experiments, demonstrations, and exercises with
  live forces and Battle Labs, to assist in
  determining requirements.

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MSDS Spiral Development
EXERCISES EXPERIMENTS DEMONSTRATIONS BATTLE
LABS LIVE SIMULATION
EXERCISES EXPERIMENTS DEMONSTRATIONS BATTLE
LABS LIVE SIMULATION
TOPOFORCE GI IPT TEC MSDS ANALYSIS
Constant Evolution
TLM JOG City Graphic VMap UVMAP ITD/VITD DTOP DTED
CIB5
FFD MEDS1 Prototype MEDS3 Prototype MAPEX
VMap2 MAPEX MEDS3 MAPEX DTOP MAPEX Image
MSDS MAPEX DTED 1-5 MAPEX Fused Products
FFD MSDS1 MSDS2 MSDS3 MSDS.. NEW MSDS
PROTOTYPES
ENDSTATE - FFD - MSDS - RQMTS ENVIRONMENT - DATA
MGMT, DISCOVERY, RETRIEVAL ENVIRONMENT
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NIMAs MSDS Vision
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MSDS Mission AnalysisMission _______?_________
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MSDS Mission AnalysisMission Dismounted
Maneuver
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MSDS Mission AnalysisMission Mounted Maneuver
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MSDS Mission AnalysisMission Urban Warfare
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MSDS Development
URBAN MSDS
URBAN CTOE
FFD
VMap1
VITD
UVMap
DTOP1 (MEDS1)
DTOP3 (MEDS3)
VMap2
CIB
DTED
DTOP
Transportation
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Hydrography
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Vegetation
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Population
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Coastline/Boundaries
Elevation
Soils/Surface Materials
MSI
Ground Obstacles
Physiography
Utilities
Selected Missions
Industry
Slope/Surface Configuration