Moving-Map Composer-Personal Computer (MMCPC) Version 1.0 for the Finland Air Force: Software User's Manual

摘要

This report documents a substantial revision of the Moving-Map Composer (MMC) system designed and developed by scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Geospatial Processing and Analysis (GeoPAL) Team (Code 7440.1). This version of MMC has been extended for use on personal computers (PCs) and is referred to as MMCPC. This is the first edition of the MMCPC Software User's Manual, to be distributed with MMCPC software release 1.0. MMCPC is specifically designed and configured to support Finland Air Force (FiAF) F/A-18 mission planners and pilots in the field. MMCPC is a software application developed for installation on a Windows XP computer configured with a standard 16-bit PCMCIA drive, or PC card drive, for reading and writing Tactical Aircraft Moving-Map Capability (TAMMAC) mission and theater map data loads. MMCPC enables users to perform the following functions: process FiAF source Geo-referenced Tagged Image File Format (GEOTIFF) files into a Compressed Arc Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG)-compatible format; process FiAF or National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) source Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) into a TAMMAC-compatible regridded DTED format (RDTED); define and save regions of interest (ROIs) for mission and theater map data loads as a series of bitmap representations: populate these regions of interest with data from user-specified FiAF GeoTIFF files (converted to CADRG-like files via MMCPC), NGA CADRG, FiAF and/or NGA RDTED, and NGA Controlled Image Base (CIB) databases; import and convert non-georeferenced images into TAMMAC- compatible data frames; write completed TAMMAC theater map data loads to PC cards for aircraft loading; and build Mission Planning loads from user- specified CADRG; RDTED, CIB, and data frames.