20111020 gis@defense for ucl
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GIS Within Belgian Defence
20 OCT 2011
Nicolas Gérôme
Michaël Fallay
Overview
• Introduction
• 2 Main examples
– Battle Management System
– MGCP Production
• Other GIS uses
• Conclusions
Military GIS: nothing new
Belgian Defense
• Budget 2.7 G€
• Manpower: 35000
• Today: 13 Operations in 6 theatres with 1200 people – Afghanistan: 600 + 6 F-16’s
– Libya: 150 + 6 F-16’s + 1 minesweeper
– Liban: 100
– Horn of Africa: anti-piracy: 150 + 1 frigate
– Democratic Republic Congo: 150
– Ouganda: 50
GIS within BE Defense
• ± 100 FTE’s
• ± 9 M€ (except personnel costs & meteo)
• ± 40 digital geodata consumer services
• ± 1 million paper maps (8000 ≠)
HELIOS
Data
Software
Hardware
Corporate
Operations
Intelligence
GIS: 3 pillars
Battle Management System
Battle Management System
Blue Force
Tracking
Enemy Spot
Reporting
Raster Maps
50K or more
Intuitive GUI
Integrated with
higher
Command
Limited
editing
possibilities
Integrated
Sensors
Synchronised
vector objects
Data Radio
Battle Management System
SatCom
Docked Mode
Vehicle Info
(fuel, ammo, …)
Communication Box
Sensors GPS
GIS engine
MGCP
• Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program
• International project to create 2D-vectordata, primarily
based upon satellite imagery
• World divided in cells of 1°x 1°
• Production scale 1:50k or 1:100K
• Based upon orthorectified high resolution (HR) imagery
– SPOT-5, IKONOS (multispectral), WorldView (panchro),..
• Additional data available to help the extraction of the
vectors
– Low resolution imagery (Landsat,..)
– Very High Resolution imagery on city area (Helios)
– Existing mapping
– Elevation data
MGCP: AOI
• Belgium:
– 13 cell + 13 in option
– Geopolitical choice
– Region: difficult
• Big cells
• Demography
• Habitat
• Vegetation
– Co-production
Defense-IGN
MGCP: Process
MGCP: Drawing
MGCP: Micro-cells
LOS Computations
LOS Computations
Incidents Analysis
Obstacle Analysis
Predictive route analysis
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2
3
6
5
4
Target
Reducing observation assets, only 6 nodes to observe…
Air Space Coordination & Air Traffic
Air Surveillance
Maritime Surveillance
Meteo
CBRN Analysis
Simulation
Mission Planning
Missile Detection
Cable Management
Environment protection
Patrimonium & Cadastre
Change detection
2001 2004
2005 2011
UBL was there from 2006
Joint Operational Picture
Challenges
Main Partners