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AGC Imagery Office

The AGC Imagery Office (AIO) is the U.S. Army's commercial imagery acquisition agent as defined in AR525-95. AIO serves several functions in its role as monitor, as defined in AR525-95, Army Geospatial Information and Services.

AGE GeoGlobe

The Army Geospatial Center (AGC) maintains a worldwide 3D based visualization and tool called the Army Geospatial Enterprise (AGE) GeoGlobe. The AGE GeoGlobe is part of an Army enterprise approach to raster and vector data sharing and visualization in a 3D environment.

AISI – Line-of-Sight Survey Total Station

The Automated Integrated Survey Instrument (AISI) is a complete field survey instrument package used to determine distances and directions for field artillery weapon systems, establishing geodetic survey control and to perform construction and airfield surveys. It provides the surveyor with a single instrument (total station) to achieve all functions formally carried out with theodolites, tapes, and distance measuring devices. It consists of an Electronic Theodolite (ELT) with display/control panel; an EDM for accurately measuring distances; and a Data Recorder unit (DRU) for encoding, storing, retrieving, and processing surveying data and for interfacing with any microprocessor. AISI includes a Long RangeLong-Range Kit when required. This Long RangeLong-Range Kit increases the Electronic Distance Meter (EDM) range from two kilometers to seven kilometers to meet geodetic mission requirements.

Army Geospatial Enterprise Architecture

The Army Geospatial Enterprise (AGE) is an integrated system of technologies, standards and processes that provide a comprehensive framework for systematically managing, exploiting and sharing geospatial data, information and services to enable Army full spectrum operations.

Army Geospatial Enterprise Architecture (AGEA) Standards Profile TV-1 / TV-2

The Army Geospatial Enterprise (AGE) is an integrated system of technologies, standards and processes that provides a comprehensive framework for systematically managing, exploiting and sharing geospatial data, information and services to enable Army full spectrum operations.

Army Remote Ground Terminal

The Remote Ground Terminal (RGT) is a tactical, mobile, sensor agnostic Direct Downlink Demonstration system. It will provide assured, timely receipt of commercial imagery for analysts to utilize in their existing workflow. It can be seamlessly integrated with data from other sources to satisfy Requests for Information.

Border Zone Tactical Planner

Border zones continue to be areas where political and cultural differences clash throughout the world and conflict often erupts where boundaries converge. Our military personnel are frequently called upon to assist in any conflict or aid with any discrepancy. The Border Zone Tactical Planner (BZTP) provides a comprehensive, map-based tool for analyzing complex terrain along physical and cultural borders of interest.

Common Map Background (CMB) Program

The Army Geospatial Center’s (AGC) Common Map Background (CMB) program was designed to provide the capability to assemble, host, maintain and disseminate a common geospatial data library. The library includes AGC data and products, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) data, and other relevant geospatial data and products. Data and/or products from the CMB data library are provided as requested to Army and other Department of Defense (DoD) customers.

Data Dissemination Team

The Army Geospatial Center’s (AGC) Data Dissemination Team (DDT) was established in 2004 as the Source Acquisition Team (SAT) to provide image and map support to the Army community. The name was changed in 2009 to more accurately reflect the mission of the team.

Department of Defense, Defense Support to Civil Authorities, Automated Support System (DDASS)

DDASS (DEE-dass) is a web-enabled Government software application developed by the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) to manage (i.e., track, collaborate, coordinate and prioritize), FEMA Mission Assignments (MAs) assigned to the Department of Defense in real time.

Dynamic Synthetic Environments

The US Army Geospatial Center (AGC) with the Joint Forces Command have developed an advanced Dynamic Synthetic Environments capability as a module for use in both Joint Semi-Automated Forces (JSAF), for Computer Generated Forces and ModStealth (OpenScene) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) applications.

Electronic Charting For Inland Waterway Navigation

The U.S. Inland Waterway system consists of 8,200 miles of rivers maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 22 states and includes 276 lock chambers with a total lift of 6,100 feet. This highly adaptable and effective system of barge navigation moves over 625 million tons of commodities annually, which includes coal, petroleum products, various other raw materials, food and farm products, chemicals, and manufactured goods.

Engineer Common Operating Picture (eCOP)

USSOUTHCOM J45-Engineering Division requires a software application capable of providing real-time information of all engineering activities condensed in one location and represented in a large operational picture.

Engineer Field Reconnaissance (ENFIRE)

The AN/TKQ-5(v) Instrument Set, Reconnaissance and Surveying (Common name: ENFIRE) is a tactical engineering toolset designed to modernize the collection and dissemination of engineer information. ENFIRE enables the user to auto-populate bridge, road, hasty minefield, IED/UXO, river, ford, ferry, tunnel, and other engineering information on standard Army forms in PDF format. ENFIRE places the right tools in the hands of the engineer that decrease time per task through automation/semi-automation and increase stand-off through long range precision measuring devices enabling rapid terrain data collection while minimizing exposure to enemy observation. ENFIRE is a modular hardware and software solution that exploits commercial technologies to continuously modernize. Leveraging commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) with very few government-off-the-shelf (GOTS) components enables modernization at the pace of the commercial market and uncomplicated replacement of individual components through multi-year manufacturer warranties.

Engineering Route Study (ERS)

The Engineering Route Study (ERS) is an unclassified country-scale graphic designed to provide basic information on the major surface transportation systems in conjunction with terrain and climate data. The ERS is intended for use by Army and other Department of Defense contingency planners who are responding to crisis events or other international situations. r international situations.

Enterprise Geospatial Data Management

The Enterprise Geospatial Data Management (EGDM) application created by the U.S. Army Geospatial Center and hosted on the Joint Engineer Common Operating Picture (JECOP) web portal is a powerful data acquisition and production tool with an ever-expanding library of datasets that include various DoD generated GGDM 3.0 compliant datasets and worldwide coverage of Open Street Map. These data can be utilized for extraction or map product creation in both connected and disconnected environments using a user-friendly web interface

Fusion3D

Fusion3D software is a lightweight application for viewing digital elevation model (DEMs) and high-resolution imagery in a 3D environment. Developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), in support of the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC), Fusion3D software provides a quick and easy way to visualize BuckEye, HALOE, and ALIRT datasets.

Georeferened Portable Document Format (GeoPDF)

The Portable Document Format (PDF): A file format from Adobe Systems for representing documents independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. A PDF file is a document containing any combination of text, graphics, and images in a device independent and resolution independent format. PDF is a published and open ISO standard file format

Geoservices

The GeoServices Project is an effort to disseminate the Army Geospatial Center’s (AGC) data, products, and analytics to the Warfighter, Army, and DoD using Standard Shareable Geospatial Foundation (SSGF) web services within the Army Geospatial Enterprise (AGE), facilitating a common operational picture for the Soldier at all echelons.

Geospatial Standards

We know geography is vital to decision making on the battlefield. What we don't always think about is the necessity to make the data sets behind the decisions of the highest possible quality. For instance, automobiles feel safe in part because we have learned that industry standard will require safety features. We trust automakers we've never met because we know cars on the road will have brakes, signals, and ability to steer. The value of geospatial information system data to commanders will likewise depend on a shared standard within U.S. ground forces. The future dictates we reach a point when we trust without a thought about geospatial standards.

Geotrans (Geographic Translator)

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) MSP GEOTRANS (Geographic Translator) is an application program which allows users to easily convert geographic coordinates among a wide variety of coordinate systems, map projections and datums.

Global Positioning System – Survey (GPS-S)

Global Positioning System - Survey is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) capability integrated with common engineer computing platform, that provides Engineer Teams with the capability to perform precision construction, topographic, and hydrographic surveys using signals from military and civilian Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The GPS-S system is pre-positioned to integrate Department of Defense (DoD) M-CODE and GPS 3.0 capabilities when these technologies become available.

Historical Photographic Analysis Technical Center of Expertise

The Historical Photographic Analysis (HPA) Technical Center of Expertise (TCX) under the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) was established to provide unmatched remote sensing and geospatial analysis expertise to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). TCX scientists have been called upon by many agencies and organizations over the decades to provide holistic, interdisciplinary, unbiased subject matter expertise, products, and technical recommendations that address concerns caused by historical activity. Historical Photographic Analysis is a temporal geographic response to modern day concerns caused by historical activity requiring the characterization of land use/cover change over time to support identification, remediation, and site assessment requirements.

Hydrologic Data Resources Application (HyDRA)

The Hydrologic Data Resources Application (HyDRA) is an unclassified smart phone application created to provide the water community with a means of water resources data collection, visualization, and dissemination in an enterprise environment.

Integrated Evaluation Center (IEC)

To provide the AGC and other DoD organizations with automation, communications and simulation support infrastructure to enable both live and virtual experimentation, demonstrations and analysis.

Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Data

Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors provide high-resolution, 3-dimensional (3D) geospatial data. Using capabilities developed and refined under the Rapid Terrain Visualization Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (RTV ACTD), the AGC continues to perform LIDAR data collections, exploit LIDAR data for operational support, and research LIDAR technologies.

M&S Terrain Generation

The Joint Experimentation, Test, and Simulation Lab (JETS Lab) of the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC) generates quick turnaround niche Modeling & Simulation (M&S) terrain products to support training, experimentation, testing, research and analysis.

M&S Terrain Generation - VBS/2

The U.S. Army Geospatial Center’s (AGC) Joint Experimentation, Test, and Simulation (JETS) Laboratory produces non-standard modeling and simulation (M&S) terrain products to support the Army geospatially and as it pertains to modeling and simulation terrain database applications.

Manual of Environmental Effects

The Army Geospatial Center (AGC) has produced an unclassified document that is designed to provide basic environmental effects and associated climate and terrain information on military operations for a given country or region.

National Inventory of Dams

The National Inventory of Dams (NID) is a congressionally authorized database that documents more than 91,000 dams across the U.S. and its territories. It is maintained and published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in cooperation with the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, the states, territories, and federal agencies.

Overseas Humanitarian Assistance Shared Information System (OHASIS)

The Overseas Humanitarian Assistance Shared Information System (OHASIS) enables Humanitarian Assistance (HA) offices, including embassy staff, country team members, Combatant Command leads, and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) to manage the full life cycle of Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster and Civic Aid (OHDACA) projects. As a result, OHASIS has been provided to all of the Geographic Combatant Commands (GCC) for their use in monitoring HA projects and to Country Team members throughout the world for nominating projects.

Regional Terrain Planner

The US Army Geospatial Center (AGC) has developed a tactical scale (1:24,000 - 1:200,000) Army planning dataset focusing on local-level mapping of networks, patterns and features. The Regional Terrain Planner (RTP) is designed to serve as an operational planning tool to support military mobility studies in corridors between Urban Tactical Planner (UTP) analysis areas from multispectral satellite imagery and other high fidelity raster and vector data. The dataset can be produced to operate at the Unclassified/CUI level by using the appropriate data sources for that level (such as imagery, maps, and available open source datasets).

Remote Sensing & Fluorescence Lab ERDC-Alexandria, VA

The Remote Sensing and Fluorescence Labs at ERDC-Research Division are engaged in basic and applied research in fluorescence, reflectance, and thermal sensing for terrain and environmental understanding. Examples of research foci are: 1) the development and modeling of fluorophores as target materials for LiDAR 2) the collection and analysis of reflectance to support hyperspectral imaging, 3) thermal short- and longwave emissive spectroscopy and imaging, 4) distributed sensing and 5) understanding of vegetative fluorescence compounds.

Shaping and Enabling Space-Based ISR

The AGC Imagery System Branch in support of Army TENCAP is pivotal in delivering specialized expertise in space-based Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT). Our work encompasses various key areas, starting with mission and systems engineering. We provide comprehensive support in designing, analyzing, and optimizing systems to ensure they meet the Army's operational requirements. This expertise is crucial in ensuring that space-based intelligence systems are both effective and reliable, aligning seamlessly with mission objectives. 

Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment 3.X

Geospatial data has historically not been standardized across the DoD Installation and Environment (I&E) and Civil Works (CW) enterprise and is therefore difficult and costly to use, share and integrate. To solve this problem, the US Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and the Defense Installations Spatial Data Infrastructure Group (DISDIG) has developed a geospatial data standard across the DoD I&E communities and USACE Civil Works by streamlining the Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDSFIE) from version 2.6 to 3.X. The development of the SDSFIE Logical Data Model (LDM) is a major milestone in the development of SDSFIE.

Survey Engineering and Mapping Technical Center of Expertise

The Survey Engineering and Mapping Center of Expertise was originally established in the mid 1990’s to provide the USACE with expert knowledge in the various areas of surveying and mapping. With the advancement of GNSS and related surveying tools, this Center provided the USACE with the necessary research and development, training, and guidance to fully implement this new technology leading to efficient and accurate survey data collection solutions. The Center’s ability to apply this to other advances in surveying and mapping activities has made it a very successful program and resource for USACE districts.

The Strategic Importance of the Army Geospatial Center’s LIDAR Collection Capability

Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is a remote sensing technology that utilizes laser pulses to measure distances and create detailed, high-resolution 3D maps of the Earth's surface. By emitting rapid laser pulses and measuring the time it takes for the light to bounce back, LIDAR generates precise spatial data that is invaluable for a variety of applications, particularly in military contexts. Unlike commercial satellites, which can provide useful imagery, LIDAR offers unparalleled depth perception, allowing for the identification of terrain features, infrastructure, and even vegetation in a three-dimensional context.

Tidal Datums for Dredging

Tidal datums, or models of tide behavior across a specific body of water, are normally based on a time series of gauge measurements recorded at fixed structures along a water-way. Where fixed platformare not available, such as channel approaches to harbors or the middle of bays and estuaries, uncertainty exists for the exact tide from minute to minute and also the water piling up or going away due to wind effects on the water levels.

Urban Tactical Planner

The US Army Geospatial Center (AGC) has investigated the urban mapping problem and has developed an expeditious process to analyze, map and display layers of urban area information. This information, terrain and cultural, is presented and easily manipulated with the use of ArcGIS software -- a user friendly, flexible, geospatial tool. The digital data formats in ArcGIS are very flexible and can be adjusted to meet specific customer needs. The product is capable of exploiting numerous data inputs such as DTED, commercial imagery, NGA topographic products, and intelligence sources. AGC can produce this data set in about six weeks depending on the size of the urban area. The capability of meeting rapid response requirements is addressed by providing only mission essential data for valid DA requirements. Therefore, it is not inclusive nor strictly an intelligence data set in the traditional sense; it is a terrain analysis data set. The data set can be produced to operate at the unclassified level by using the appropriate data sources for that level (such as imagery, maps, and ground photos).

U-SMART - (USACE Survey Monument Archival and Retrieval Tool)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) utilizes survey markers/monuments, known as Control Points, across the United States (US), to monitor and measure the condition of the land related to water levels and its effect on projects including those in the Corps Project Notebook (CPN). These control points provide geospatial positioning, elevation, and other important information that are used for consistency across planning, engineering, design, and operations and maintenance of a project and allow it to be accurately georeferenced to the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). This activity is critical to maintaining an understanding of the relationship between the various geodetic, tidal, and water level datums.

Voyager ILS and WebVoyage

The Geospatial Information Library (GIL) within the US Army Geospatial Center (AGC) is part of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The GIL utilizes Ex Libris (USA) Inc. Voyager integrated library system (ILS) to catalog its library holdings. Voyager is an ILS with modules for cataloging, circulation, acquisitions, reports and others.

Water Resource Assessments and Appraisals (WRA/WAA)

Since 1995 the Army Geospatial Center’s Hydrologic Analysis Team has produced Water Resources Assessments (WRA) in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District's Water Resources Assessment Program, which in turn directly supports the U.S. Southern Command's (SOUTHCOM) Humanitarian Civic Assistance water development program.