Common Ground: Advanced Geospatial Analytics.

摘要

It seems that mobile device applications exist for nearly everything now. The genius behind application development is in reducing a complex action to essential information. Geospatial terrain reasoning for military operations will transfer into mobile devices down to the platform level via a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency program known as the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (CJMTK). The Army Geospatial Center at Alexandria, Virginia, is the technical manager for a joint capabilities technology demonstration called Common Ground (CG). A joint technology demonstration is a program that the Office of the Secretary of Defense uses to manage technological solutions and concepts within a 2- to 3-year time frame. Participants in CG include representatives from government, academia, industry, and the military. The CJMTK integrates the best geospatial tools of government, academia, industry, and the military into a single architecture that is made available for programs of record. Geospatial tools continue to evolve at a breakneck pace. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency absorbs about 500 terabytes of data monthly. Computer processing times keep improving; the volume of data keeps increasing; software keeps growing in capability and complexity; the Army keeps getting more networked; and military organizations keep becoming more joint and multinational, involving more Department of Defense and other federal agencies.