PLTS for ArcGIS - Defence Solution

Tools for Creating Military Specification-Compliant Data

Defense Solution provides defense production tools to efficiently create and maintain military specification-compliant data. These tools enable users to achieve significant time savings when performing large-scale database production and maintenance projects.

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With Defense Solution you can
  • Extract and attribute features more efficiently
  • View the size of a feature that has been created or selected
  • Populate the Area, Length, and ZV2 fields for a geodatabase
  • Update angle values
  • Add bridges to road features
  • Create simple building features
  • Check the relationships between different feature classes and geometry types

Defense Solution also includes many defense-specific geodatabase models:

  • Vector Map Level 0 (VMap 0)

  • Vector Map Level 1 (VMap 1) data and 1:250,000 scale Joint Operations Graphic-Air (JOG-A) cartographic products

  • Vector Map Level 2 (VMap 2) data and 1:50,000 scale Topographic Line Map (TLM) cartographic products

  • Foundation Feature Data (FFD)

  • Stereo Airfield Databases

  • Theater Geospatial Databases (TGD) including Global, Strategic, Tactical and Urban

  • Image City Maps (ICMs)

  • Geospatial Intelligence Feature Database (GIFD) Delivery 4

  • Urban Vector Maps (UVMAP)

  • VMap Level 2 Delivery 4

  • Vector Interim Terrain Data (VITD)

Within Defense Solution, quality control, cartographic product generation, single-click editing environment, and work flow management components exist.

  • GIS Data ReViewer, a data quality control management application that simplifies many aspects of automated and visual spatial data quality control tasks.

  • Map Production System Atlas, a cartographic production application that provides tools for the production of high-quality, high-volume map products; automated map book and atlas creation; and grid creation based on product specifications.

  • Foundation Tools, an application that provides single-click editing tools as well as data import and export tools, which allow users to perform large-volume data migration tasks.

  • Job Tracking for ArcGIS (JTX), an enterprise work flow management application that provides tools for tracking and streamlining work flow.

Who Uses Defense Solution?

Organizations within the defense mapping industry can use these commonly required tools to increase efficiency throughout all stages of production. These organizations need efficient production flow lines and tools to create and maintain quality spatial data for analysis and map production that meet military specifications.