The NATO Core Geographic Services system provides centralized geospatial capabilities for NATO forces through an enterprise GIS. It was implemented in 2006 to replace outdated, disconnected legacy systems and provide standardized geospatial data, products, services and software across NATO headquarters. The system delivers centralized cartographic, GIS and mapping services through desktop and web applications to over 18 NATO headquarters around the world, allowing all NATO staff to access the same strategic geospatial information. It is based on Esri ArcGIS software and uses open standards to enable interoperability with other NATO systems. The system provides critical geospatial support for NATO missions worldwide.
The ArcGIS platform for national security is designed to deliver relevant content through simple applications aligned to the business need of each person in an organization.
Esri technology enables you to effectively assess your vulnerabilities and optimize the deployment of public safety resources so you get the most from your existing investments. Esri gives you a complete system to plan, prepare, and
respond in a moment’s notice.
The ArcGIS platform for national security is designed to deliver relevant content through simple applications aligned to the business need of each person in an organization.
Esri technology enables you to effectively assess your vulnerabilities and optimize the deployment of public safety resources so you get the most from your existing investments. Esri gives you a complete system to plan, prepare, and
respond in a moment’s notice.
Visualizing Data with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)Kate Dougherty
Librarians in academic and research institutions are increasingly involved in the curation and visualization of data created by their organizations. This presentation, presented as part of a session on "The Data Librarian" at the Internet Librarian International 2013 conference, explored how information professionals can use open source GIS software to add value to data.
Presentation 'about the (very nearby) future of GIS' for GeoScience students, Universiteit Utrecht. I had a few recommended skill and recommendations as well, will blog about that later.
This white paper explains key characteristics of GIS, describes how GIS applies to the fire service, and provides guidance on the most important aspects of a successful GIS implementation.
TeleCAD-GIS is a scalable, Autodesk-based, CAD/GIS solution for both national and regional telecommunications infrastructure networks planning, design, documenting and maintenance. It provides valuable tools targeting customer-owned outside plant design; OSP right-of-way and route design; OSP space design; underground, direct-buried, and aerial plant design; OSP cabling hardware and OSP grounding, bonding and electrical protection systems; automated switching and support systems design, etc.
Visualizing Data with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)Kate Dougherty
Librarians in academic and research institutions are increasingly involved in the curation and visualization of data created by their organizations. This presentation, presented as part of a session on "The Data Librarian" at the Internet Librarian International 2013 conference, explored how information professionals can use open source GIS software to add value to data.
Presentation 'about the (very nearby) future of GIS' for GeoScience students, Universiteit Utrecht. I had a few recommended skill and recommendations as well, will blog about that later.
This white paper explains key characteristics of GIS, describes how GIS applies to the fire service, and provides guidance on the most important aspects of a successful GIS implementation.
TeleCAD-GIS is a scalable, Autodesk-based, CAD/GIS solution for both national and regional telecommunications infrastructure networks planning, design, documenting and maintenance. It provides valuable tools targeting customer-owned outside plant design; OSP right-of-way and route design; OSP space design; underground, direct-buried, and aerial plant design; OSP cabling hardware and OSP grounding, bonding and electrical protection systems; automated switching and support systems design, etc.
Field Data Collecting, Processing and Sharing: Using web Service TechnologiesNiroshan Sanjaya
Collecting, Distributing and Analyzing field data is a crucial part in any geospatial study. Field data collection tools and methods have been developed significantly due to the advancement of technologies such as Global Navigational Satellite Systems (GNSS) and development of smartphones. Accurate field data collection is also a necessary task for broad spatial data analysis and proper decision making. Development of Web technologies led to share the data and information effectively. This study tries to develop a framework based on the Geospatial Semantic Web technologies for disseminating and processing field data. Experimental results from an implemented prototype show that the proposed framework allows to visualize and process the field data in any context. The system of this study is capable of distributing and processing field data using web application. Moreover, the study demonstrates the importance and the capabilities of web services for spatial data gathering and processing. The system has been developed based on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) packages such as ZOO-Project, Open Data Kit, etc. It enables user to further improve or deploy the system for variety of studies.
YARIS (Yaounde Architecture Regional Information System) is a web-based platform to share and analyse information within the 27 maritime centres of the Gulf of Guinea
We NSG India, a ESRI Gold Partner, have been working with many companies on a collaborative mode and delivering solutions on ESRI platform configured to their businesses.
NSG has global presence in India, UAE, NewZealand, United states and we offer services in the following ESRI and Microsoft technology areas: NSGI has a special focus on application development, geo-database implementation and web deployment. We develop applications across the entire ESRI suite of products – from ArcPad to ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online,
ArcFM Desktop and ArcFM Server based application customisation using.NET, Java using SQL Server and Oracle spatial databases.
We are ESRI-Centric working on Strategic GIS Consulting, Enterprise GIS Implementations catering to specific vertical markets and domains like Ports, Building Inspection Management and Citizen centric incident and complaints management system for Local Government (Municipal Councils, Counties), Climate Change, Marine, Utilities and Spatial Data Infrastructure.
We have expertise in small to medium to large scale ESRI and Microsoft Based projects. We specialize in offshore-based application development & have proven track record in providing turnkey solution to GIS Companies and Governments. We provide offshore technical and development support on Geocortex Spatial application infrastructure with future proof technologies with minimum custom code requirements. Our offshore development model has a proven cost saving and enable the organization to:
1. Create GIS applications that meet the demand for maps and applications for administrators and project stakeholders;
2. Provide end-users with simple and repeatable processes for accessing information, inside applications tailored to their needs.
3. Reduce the cost of development, support, maintaining/administering applications.
4. Share geospatial information with internal or external stakeholders on an array of desktop/mobile devices.
I have also attached a brief presentation on our corporate background and service capabilities. If you need any additional information or have a query, please do feel free to contact us.
New tools are being developed by Czech Living Lab WirelessInfo, which allow users to easily publish their data and metadata as part of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The paper describes the design of a Technological Infrastructure on the basis of ISO and OGC Standards and also the implementation of a prototype and first experiences. The solution is designed in distributed system form, which provides the connection to metadata about spatial data and services. This solution tests the principle of catalogue services at both national and international level which could be used in the UN SDI context. A catalogue portal is one of the independent components of GeoHosting complex system for raster and vector spatial data sharing. The catalogue portal provides data source searching on the basis of their metadata records through structure queries. The portal also contains edit functionality for new metadata records creating or editing. The metadata catalogue system corresponds to ISO 19115/19119/19139 standards [1], [2], [3], [4] and provides for cascade searching on the other standardized catalogue systems. The difference is, there exist different other initiatives offering publishing of own content like Google technology or OpenStreet Map, that GeoHosting is based fully on INSPIRE European standards and support establishing of network of distributed servers.
INOVA GIS Platform represents centralized Enterprise GIS (Geographical Information System) that enables seamless data access for any number of different departments within business organization and beyond. Data can be accessed for viewing, analyzing, editing, etc. Apart from that, data can be presented to wider audience with the possibility to control what type of data and to what extent it will be presented.
INIA- CISA: Análisis de las amenazas en la fauna silvestreEsri
El Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal del Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria utiliza la tecnología SIG para una mejor comprensión de las amenazas a las especies silvestres y su asociación con las actividades humanas
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
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At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
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DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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The NATO Core Geographic Services System
1. The NATO Core Geographic
Services System
Enterprise GIS for Defense Provides Strong, Centralized
Geospatial Capabilities
2. Peacekeeping and security missions take North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces to
remote regions of the world, from the rugged
mountains in Afghanistan to the choppy seas off
the Horn of Africa.
NATO personnel who work in these diverse
environments, often under dangerous conditions,
need fast and easy access to accurate and
up-to-date geographic information for planning
missions, evaluating terrain, navigating ships
and other vessels, analyzing intelligence, and
managing logistics. In short, they require maps,
imagery, and other geospatial data, along with
geographic information system (GIS) technology,
to manage, analyze, and visualize data and create
web-based GIS services and applications.
The NATO Communications and Information
Agency (NCIA) provides a technical solution for
these types of geospatial products, services,
and software to NATO’s operational commands
in Allied Command Operations (ACO), the
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
in Afghanistan, and other missions through the
NATO Core Geographic Services system.
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop provides an easy way to access local desktop data sources and online NATO Core GIS web services and its analysis capabilities when connected to the NATO LAN.
The Challenge
NATO needed a next-generation GIS to
provide centralized geospatial capabilities
throughout the organization. The abundance
of disconnected and barely connected legacy
systems for collecting, managing, analyzing,
and disseminating geospatial information no
longer sufficed. The existing systems could not
handle the full volume of incoming data. Built on
outdated technology, these systems were often
incompatible with each other, too.
NATO required a modern, enterprise-level
information technology (IT) infrastructure built
on IT standards for handling and working with
geospatial information. Recognizing GIS as a
fundamental technology, NATO wanted the new
geospatial solution to provide
• Improved commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)
tools and hardware.
• Decentralized geospatial data management
at each NATO headquarters, with centralized
quality control by Allied Command Operations.
• Standardized GIS production and
dissemination tasks.
• An improved interface with NATO Functional
Area Services (FAS), which manages logistic
and operational information within the
common operational picture (COP).
3. The Solution
In 2006, NATO contracted with Siemens
Enterprise Communications to implement the
NATO Core Geographic Services system (NATO
Core GIS), an enterprise-level geospatial data
and services infrastructure. Siemens brought
project management, communications, security,
site rollout, hardware, and many other assets to
the project. Esri joined the team to provide all
the geospatial capabilities for the solution. Other
team members include Esri Nederland B. V. and
Belgium company GIM, brought on for training
and technical support, respectively.
NATO Core GIS provides centralized geospatial
services to NATO headquarters staff and
command and control (C2) systems. The system
delivers the following:
• Cartographic services are available through a
high-end GIS desktop and server environment.
NATO’s geospatial staff will use desktop and
server-based applications to acquire, manage,
produce, maintain, and publish all geospatial
data, products, and web services.
The Core Geo Viewer provides access to NATO geospatial assets, readily available via
standards-based web services.
• Core GIS services, such as web map
services and other geospatial capabilities,
are centralized in one location at each
headquarters and available through a
variety of web services. Staff in every NATO
headquarters can access these maps and
services through the Core Geo Viewer, a
simple GIS viewer. Access is also available using
ArcGIS®
for Desktop or other applications that
can use Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.®
(OGC®
)-compliant web services.
• NATO FAS project teams now have access to a
GIS developer toolkit called the Component-
Based Framework (CBF) to build custom GIS
viewers and services for specialized user
communities such as intelligence, logistics,
and land C2.
These services and the toolkit are deployed on
each of the local area networks (LANs) at 18 NATO
headquarters in 12 countries. This means that all
NATO staff will have access to the same strategic
geospatial information and products, whether they
are at ACO or ISAF headquarters in Afghanistan,
ensuring that everyone in NATO “fights off the
same map.”
NATO Core GIS services are available using
many OGC and International Organization
for Standardization (ISO) standards, integral
to promoting interoperability among NATO
systems and member states. Any system
that can connect to the NATO network and
consume OGC services can use the geospatial
information. NATO Core GIS will provide this
open framework via OGC web services, such
as Web Map Service (WMS), Web Coverage
Service (WCS), and Web Feature Service (WFS).
This enables other systems to ingest and use
geospatial data for further analysis, visualization,
and planning such as C2 and logistics.
The NATO geospatial staff creates map products and makes them
available via web services for NATO Core GIS users and systems.