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Feeding World Wind/Agile Client with NGA Content
Xander Enzmann, MITRE Corporation
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides a large amount of content
for use in Command and Control planning and execution. This presentation will
describe how much of that information can be processed and used in an efficient way by
World Wind in connected and disconnected environments. The AgileClient framework
from DISA is used as the presentation framework that houses World Wind.
The delivery of NGA provided content can take
many forms: OGC services such as WMS; KML
overlays; raster images (JPEG2000, MrSID, RPF);
vector files (ESRI Shapefiles, VPF), … Content can
be stored in a number of different ways with choices
dependent on how much is needed, bandwidth and
processor considerations, … In addition to raw
content, map services can be a filter/transformation
engine for local and external MCG&I services.
The environments in which this content is needed
range from globally connected force level systems
to small enclaves to individual planners. There are
many FOSS spatial processing libraries (e.g., OGDI,
GDAL), spatially aware databases such as
Postgres/PostGIS, and caching tools. Using these,
NGA content can be managed, processed, and made
available to a planner as selectable layers for display. This presentation will briefly
describe the tools and techniques that can be applied to this end.
xander@mitre.org