00:01What we're going to talk about today is the resources that we're making available...

00:05...to support the defense and intelligence communities.

00:09I'm Ben Conklin. I'm out of Redlands, California.

00:12I'm here with my colleague from Redlands, California, as well, Carolyn Fish.

00:16We're going to present a majority of the material.

00:18We've managed to co-opt a couple of our friends from DC to help us out with some of the material...

00:22...at the end of the presentation, so they were caught by surprise by having some extra duties here...

00:28...but I think they're going to work out really nice for us.

00:30So we've got Scott Cecilio and John Fry from DC working with us on this.

00:37So when we talk about our kind of defense and intelligence community, we basically, at Esri...

00:42...we kind of think of it in three major categories.

00:45So we have our intelligence community supporting, you know, national intelligence strategic decision making...

00:51...supporting the things like indications and warnings, supporting the warfighter.

00:54We also have the components of the military that are producing all the foundational content that's used.

01:02They use our Production Mapping solution.

01:06And then finally, we have our military operations space, which is really the tactical component.

01:11When I talk you through these three different solutions, or modules...

01:14...they all work together to support the overall initiatives of the...

01:17...defense and intelligence communities, but we do look at them as separate and distinct solutions.

01:23So this morning during our ArcGIS for National Government sessions...

01:26...we actually had focus sessions on each of those individual modules.

01:30So we had the session for our land operations and maritime operations, which is part of our overall ArcGIS for the Military solution.

01:36We also had a focus session on our intelligence solutions and then we're going to have some...

01:40...there's other focus sessions on the Production Mapping capabilities, like Defense Mapping.

01:44So I'm just going to give you a really light overview of each of those modules...

01:47...and then we're going to dig in to the actual resources that we have available for you today...

01:51...and those that we're going to be releasing in the very near future.

01:58So to start with, our Production Mapping solution is focused around specific production lines.

02:04So we have a solution called Esri Defense Mapping...

02:08...which is really focused on creating the products that are used in the defense community.

02:12Things like the topographic line maps, doing production like the TGD databases used by the army...

02:17...things like MGCP used by NATO and coalition.

02:21And so that system is really all about the workflow involved in compiling this authoritative foundation content...

02:28...and then making products and useful information out of it to be consumed by the other solutions in our defense and intelligence solutions.

02:38Then we can move into our ArcGIS for Intelligence solution.

02:40So earlier, we went into depth on this in our ArcGIS for Intelligence section.

02:45And the intelligence solution is really focused on intelligence agencies at a national level...

02:49...and the role that they play in supporting the overall mission for either strategic decision making or tactical responses.

02:57And we kind of break that solution into three major categories - foundation production...

03:03...so this is a little bit different than the traditional topographic data management type production.

03:07This is more along the lines of building up the large intelligence databases out there...

03:11...like databases of intelligence targets and things like that, very deliberate production...

03:15...that supports the larger overall intelligence mission.

03:18Then we have our integrated source management.

03:20So that's really the systems that collect much of the intelligence information that's brought into the system.

03:25We don't specifically, directly, actually do any source collection, but what the geospatial solution helps you do...

03:31...is manage that content as it comes into the system and enable it for geospatial analysts to work with.

03:38And then, finally, at the other end is really the bread and butter of the intelligence solution...

03:43...which is our intelligence analysis workflows where you're exploiting all that foundation content...

03:47...and those intelligence sources in order to answer real questions.

03:50And those tend to be focused around specific disciplines and areas.

03:55When we move into the ArcGIS for the Military solution, the two areas we're really focused on now...

03:59...is our land operations and our maritime operations. And we focused this at a tactical level.

04:05So in the case of our land operations, we're looking at how a brigade...

04:09...would take advantage of the geospatial capabilities to enable their operations.

04:13So you've got everything from the ISR systems, your incoming data from your ISR systems...

04:18...managed in your operations server, being exploited by your intelligence analysts with their custom workstations.

04:23So like in the army, this would be D6A would be that kind of workstation.

04:27You have your planning systems, which are also able to be powered by the geospatial enterprise...

04:32...and your common operational picture, operations dashboard.

04:35Of course, all that information is provisioned out into the field, generally via media out to vehicles in the field...

04:44...with useful basemaps and relevant content, and then situational awareness information flows over the radio back to those systems.

04:52The maritime operations system is very similar.

04:54In this case, we're looking at like a typical task force unit or a group working with, like, your maritime headquarters organizations.

05:03[Inaudible] There we go.

05:09And those systems are being used for much the same purpose as we saw in our land operations...

05:13...obviously supporting more the maritime mission for your preparation of the environment and your planning tasks.

05:21That information can be used in lightweight afloat cases such as landing craft or patrol aircraft...

05:27...and with your expeditionary ashore, like your beach commander.

05:32Really behind this system, this system for intelligence, the core underpinning of it is our ArcGIS Online system...

05:39...which is really a system for managing geospatial information...

05:43...provides a framework for collaboration and sharing and a way to publish out useful information products.

05:50That online system we're using on the Internet to serve many of our other government agencies that have access...

05:56...to information on the Internet, but of course we can take that same online system and put it into these environments.

06:02So in the case of the intelligence agency - that'd be your large agency and your network supporting the vast array of different groups.

06:10In the case of the military solutions, military operations solutions, that would go out on a physical server...

06:15...small appliance, take it with you in the field. But it's really the same technology.

06:19It's what would drive the operations server for the military.

06:24The key concept in this new medium that you've probably seen yesterday in the plenary and today in our earlier sessions...

06:30...is this concept of this web map.

06:32So the web map is a way to bring together this various information from these different disciplines...

06:37...that's been geospatially enabled and make useful information products out of it.

06:41And those products are actually really designed to be consumed by the real end users of the system.

06:45So geospatial professionals, intelligence analysts, planners would create these intelligent web maps...

06:50...and they'd be consumed by the actual end users of the system.

06:54They have the ability to support drill in and useful information pop-ups, analysis...

06:58...display of temporal data, and tie into your other systems.

07:03So they're a key part of this paradigm of an online system for sharing information.

07:09The other key component of why these intelligent maps are so useful is that they can be used in a variety of environments.

07:15So we talked about the different solutions.

07:16We were talking about the system itself and how it's fed by planners and analysts and other professionals in an agency...

07:23...and then it's consumed by a wide variety of users.

07:26So using standard, you know, professional desktops, lightweight mobile or web applications...

07:32...and even used in the field in disconnected workflows.

07:37So what we're going to do is we're going to take a quick look at that online system.

07:49So the example we're going to look at here is our ArcGIS for Intelligence system.

07:53We have similar systems for all of our military solutions as well.

07:58We don't have the network running anymore so I'll reboot it. I'll just use the intel system for now.

08:03So this intelligence system is our online system, and it's the same as what we have on the Internet...

08:08...but in this case, we're going to be looking at a stand-alone system.

08:11This would be a system deployed inside your agency.

08:13And in this system, we have access to useful information, so I can access ready-to-use maps...

08:20...focused web applications, or mobile applications.

08:24These ready-to-use maps would be created by other professionals and shared in this environment.

08:28So one example of this type of intelligent map might be this Syria current events.

08:35So I can open up this map as a user of the system and interact with it.

08:38So the map itself has location of events; in this case, we're pulling in Ushahidi data...

08:42...but this would be fed by other live systems on your network.

08:46And we can see recent incidents.

08:48And because this map is time enabled, I can explore it and interact with it, look at the current of events over time...

08:54...or events for a specific time period to see maybe trends.

08:59I can interact and drill into the information in the map, so I can click on the map and have information returned to me...

09:04...and shown to me in a useful pop-up or other presentation.

09:12'Course, within the site, I can create my own maps, so as an intelligence analyst, I might want to create a map for my area.

09:19So this system has the key components I need to make my own map.

09:23So to start with, it has these authoritative basemaps - so these basemaps are all the authoritative, useful content for my area...

09:31...and they're designed specifically to be used in this online system or mobile devices.

09:35These are maps that I can zoom in and out on and interact with easily.

09:40I can create my own map by simply mashing up a few layers of information that are part of the system...

09:44...so I can this Oceans Basemap, for example, and add in some additional content from the system.

09:58So this other content is part of the system and discoverable easily from this front-end site.

10:05I can add in some of my own additional information, like pirate activity in the area.

10:23Just drag and drop that onto my map. [Inaudible] There we go.

10:28So then that plots that information out on my map.

10:30I can then save this map to my own personal workspace.

10:40I can give it a useful description and tags so other people can find it.

10:51And then once I'm done working with that map, I can share it with other people.

10:54So I can either share it with people through this site that are maybe other professionals...

10:57...that want to open and work with the map; I can embed it in a report - so written content...

11:01...and host it in web pages; or I could share it via focused application.

11:11This could present an easy way just for others to come in and interact with this map that I've created in a focused environment.

11:23So that's a quick overview of that online system that's at the heart of each of these solutions that we described.

11:30'Course, many of you sitting in the audience are saying, Well, I don't build this entire system...

11:34...I can't stand up this online system myself. I do more specific functions.

11:39Either you build the in-vehicle systems for the military or you do specific kinds of analysis.

11:43So each of you actually participates as content providers to the system...

11:47...and you consume information that's provided and ready to use.

11:50And we're going to start walking through some of the ways that this online system can help you do your individual tasks.

11:58So what's your role in this online system?

12:01So your role is creating that useful information product, so many of you in this audience are content producers.

12:06You're making sure that the appropriate data is brought into the system and that it's being analyzed and manipulated...

12:12...in appropriate and useful ways, and then you share your tradecraft and technique with other professionals.

12:18At Esri, we're really just trying to help you in that function.

12:21We're not claiming to be experts in intelligence analysis or conducting military operations.

12:26We want to actually just build and deliver to you the tools you need to accomplish this mission.

12:31So we start by trying to build useful software.

12:33This is the software we're seeing today - the desktop software, the professional GIS system that you're probably all familiar with.

12:40We also want to help you deliver that system into your environment.

12:42We don't want to just say, oh, it's good enough for us to deliver the system on the Internet.

12:46We know for you to be successful, you need to have access to this in your environment.

12:50And then we want to provide you useful examples that you can adopt, that use this new pattern...

12:55...so you don't have to start from a blank slate or an empty map.

13:01So these useful examples that you can adopt are what we're really going to focus on next...

13:05...and those are the resources that we're making available to you through our resource center.

13:10So we have a resource center which is focused on the defense and intelligence community...

13:13...and this resource center provides access to a wealth of resources - blogs, where we're sharing ideas and thoughts with you...

13:19...our online help system; a forum for you to either report issues to Esri, let us know what you're facing and receive help...

13:26...from others in the community; videos and ideas; and then galleries of some of this useful content I was talking about.

13:36So one of the components of the resource center is this idea of these templates.

13:40So any of these well-designed maps, these online intelligent maps or desktop maps, mobile maps...

13:45...these can be shared as templates.

13:48So us and our partners are creating these templates and sharing them with you, and it's really just a way to package up ...

13:54...some of this capability and functionality for either desktop, web, or mobile environments.

13:58And then we're working with many of you in your different agencies to actually get this information into your environment.

14:04Let's take a look at the resource center that's on the Internet.

14:10So we have an abundance of various communities that are part of - that use ArcGIS...

14:17...and the defense and intelligence community is really for basically everybody in this room.

14:22As I mentioned before, we have different modules for the defense and intelligence community...

14:26...using military operations or intelligence as examples.

14:29On the resource center, we have a variety of templates ready for you to use to accomplish your specific missions.

14:37We're going to take a look at some of these specific templates here in the next section.

14:41We also have useful videos and relevant blog posts on this site.

14:46There's a generic overview of the defense resource center; you can also drill into specific functions like the intelligence community.

14:54[Inaudible] Alright. Go down to the intelligence community.

15:01In this case, we're very focused on specific applications and templates for the intelligence community.

15:12So what we're going to do is we're going to dig in to some of these templates a little bit, and we're going to start out...

15:15...with some of that foundational information that we talked about earlier, and this is what we refer to as our basemap templates.

15:21How do you build some of those useful basemaps so that people can use as a foundation for their operations?

15:26For this, I'm going to turn it over to our lead cartographer for defense, Carolyn Fish.

15:32Hi, I'm kind of attached to the table, but...

15:36So I'm going to talk a little bit about basemap templates that we have on our resource center.

15:43So first off, what are some good principles for your basemaps?

15:47First off, they need to be continuous in your area of interest; that means that there's no gaps in data...

15:52...and that you have data for all of the area that you're trying to show.

15:57They also exist at multiple scales, meaning that when you zoom in and out...

16:02...more or less data is shown to make sure that only the appropriate data is shown at each scale.

16:09And this is really important, because now you're no longer limited to one single scale like you were on static maps.

16:18And basemaps also provide you a simple way to encapsulate complex data.

16:23So you're not providing lots and lots of layers to anyone; you're limiting that data to just those layers.

16:33And then, finally, there's been this pattern to use a common coordinate system...

16:38...and the coordinate system that we typically use is WGS 1984 web Mercator auxiliary sphere.

16:45And that coordinate system is used by ArcGIS Online and Google and Bing Maps...

16:53...and by using that common coordinate system, you're able to mash up your maps with those other maps that are available online.

17:02So you may not want to create your maps at every single scale; you just want to create at the local or urban scales...

17:10...and then use the data that's already available and cached for you on ArcGIS Online.

17:16And it also allows you to use those other data that are out there that have already been created.

17:27So I talked a little bit about operational layers, and those are the layers that are the focused item of interest on your map...

17:38...so they might be targets, facilities, units, and equipment positions...

17:43...reporting just various different data that you would be showing on your map.

17:50And that data is updated frequently; it might be updated by the minute, maybe by week...

17:57...but it's much different than the basemap layers, which you're not going to create - or update very frequently.

18:05And they're going to support the functionality within your application, so that means that...

18:12...like, you'll be able to click on those features and get information from them within your application.

18:19And they're going to be displayed on top of the basemap, so they're the, you know, current reporting or the blue forces.

18:25Like you see here in these screen shots, they're going to be shown on top of the basemap.

18:33And then your basemap layers provide you a geographic reference, and they serve as a background for your operational layers.

18:42So these come in multiple, different types of basemaps.

18:46First off, we have imagery. You can also scan in your map.

18:51We have a topographic map and our new Canvas map that I'll be talking about later on this afternoon in our basemaps presentation.

19:01And these basemap layers are designed to communicate clearly and effectively, and so they're going to be really well designed...

19:10...to show you just the text and symbols and colors that you need to see on your basemap.

19:16And they're going to be very simple, designed to be subtle in the background so that the focus is on your operational layers.

19:25And then, finally, they're designed to perform well and quickly.

19:31So now I'm going to go into each of the different basemaps that we have. First off is the topographic basemap.

19:38And this basemap is our default on ArcGIS Online, so you've probably seen it before; you can also use it within ArcMap.

19:47And this is really a good map for showing planning and operations because it's very detailed...

19:54...as you zoom in to some of those larger scales.

19:59And some of the key elements of the topographic basemap are transportation networks; the boundaries...

20:07...various landmarks, so points of interest; parks, so green spaces; buildings, and then on the physical side...

20:17...your hillshade, contours, physiographic features, vegetation, and hydro features.

20:29So now I'm going to talk a little bit about the Canvas basemap, which is one of our newest basemaps...

20:34...and it's designed to be very simple, so kind of the less is more design.

20:40And it has a lot less information than the topographic map, and it just shows some of the locational information...

20:49...that you need to be able to identify where you are in the map and help you understand your operational layers.

20:56But really the focus on this map is for putting your operational layers on there...

21:00...and understanding your operational layers the most, more than seeing kind of the background layers of the basemap.

21:09And some of the key elements of the Canvas map are obviously less than on the topo map...

21:14...and they include the transportation, hydro, boundaries, landmarks - that's points of interest again - parks, and buildings.

21:26And then we also have our imagery reference overlay map, which is our imagery hybrid map.

21:33So this is designed to have your reference information that you can overlay on various different types of imagery...

21:41...any real-color imagery that you might have.

21:45And one of the key things about this map is that the colors and the text used here, it's very bright and noticeable...

21:54...and it uses really thick halos so that you can see your labels and your roads on there very easily.

22:03And that way it doesn't get lost kind of in the image...

22:06...no matter whether you're looking at an area where there might be a lot of snow...

22:10...or whether you're looking at a very dark area on the image where maybe there's a lot of water or a lot of vegetation.

22:20And some of the key elements of the imagery hybrid map - I've kind of divided this up into labels and geometry.

22:25So there's very limited geometric features on the map; it's just transportation and boundaries...

22:32...but the key focus here is the labels, which are hydro, boundaries, and landmarks and transportation.

22:39So there's a lot of labels on here but very few geometric features.

22:47So now I'm going to jump over to this other computer and show you, within our portal, these different maps.

22:58Okay. [Inaudible]

23:07So once you're in our portal, if you just go to Map, it automatically opens up to show the area around Jalalabad, Afghanistan...

23:20...and it's defaulting to the topographic basemap.

23:26And you can see the multiscale effect that I was talking about earlier, and that is, that as you zoom in...

23:33...more and more detailed information is shown to you on the map.

23:37So right here you can tell that the main highway is shown, but as you zoom in...

23:44...more and more streets are shown in the Jalalabad area.

23:51And then as we zoom in more, you see more points of interest and parks and the hydro features...

24:00...go from line features to polygon features and become more detailed.

24:07And as you zoom in more, you can even see buildings and building shadows...

24:10...and finally, as you zoom in, you can even see individual trees, and finally, at our largest level...

24:18...scale level, you can even see individual fences that we've drawn in here.

24:26Now, this basemap is obviously different than our imagery with labels basemap, which is our hybrid basemap...

24:37...and you can see here that the points of interest have very brightly colored labels and thick halos.

24:49And that's designed so that no matter what the background image looks like, you'll be able to see those labels.

24:56And then, lastly, I want to show you our new Canvas map.

25:01So this is obviously a really subtle color palette that's used.

25:06The parks and even the governor's palace in Jalalabad are still shown, but they're very muted out...

25:11...so that the focus is really going to be on your operational layers.

25:16And I'm going to show you how you can add those layers to this map.

25:36So here in Jalalabad, we're adding intelligence report, and you can really see how these operational layers pop out on your map...

25:44...on the Canvas map, which makes it really easy to identify those features that you've added.

25:51And this kind of compares to the imagery with labels map, where it's much more difficult to identify those features.

25:59Obviously, an imagery map is good for other things, but for intelligence reporting, in this case...

26:06...the Canvas map does a really good job at allowing you to see those features.

26:14And now I'm going to hand it back over to Ben.

26:31So we have a few different basemaps currently available on our resource center...

26:35...the topographic, the imagery with reference overlay, and scanned maps.

26:39What we're going to be doing, coming soon, is we're going to actually have all of these basemaps that Carolyn showed you...

26:43...all working off of a common information model behind the scenes and all packaged together, basically.

26:49So you can create the series of these maps all from the same underlying data.

26:53And what we're doing specifically is we're tying back into that topographic data model that's part of the Defense Mapping solution...

26:58...which is used by many of you for your various production inside your agencies.

27:03So it should lend itself really well to using the data you have out of the box...

27:06...and that'll be coming really soon that we'll release that.

27:10So we're going to transition into our planning and operations area in terms of some of the templates we have.

27:17Just very, very, very quickly; this is not going to be a class on the operations process.

27:21What we're doing is we're building up templates that fit into what's known as the operations process...

27:25...which includes the actual planning and preparation phases as well as the actual execution and monitoring phases.

27:32We have a variety of templates in this area, we have tools for just creating your classic course of action sketches.

27:37Those are what we refer to as our military features templates with all of our military overlay editing tools.

27:44We also have a situational awareness web application and patrol data capture application for bringing in data from patrols.

27:51We have some additional new templates that'll be coming out really soon. We're going to talk about these more today.

27:55If you're interested in in-depth examples of all of these, we'll talk about that in our session later on planning and operations.

28:02So we have the decision support template, which is a doctrinal product you create as part of your planning process.

28:07It results in the situation template, the event temp - and identifying your named areas of interest and target areas of interest.

28:18We also have our vehicle commander application, which is really designed for in-vehicle systems.

28:23By itself, it doesn't, wouldn't go directly into your vehicles, but it's an application that we give with all the source code included...

28:29...so system integrators can build useful in-vehicle applications, and it's based on our new Runtime technology.

28:35And then we also have our squad leader application, which I'll show you here in a second...

28:39...and it's based on the same Runtime technology that we have on our Android devices.

28:43And it's an application we've been building to help support the US Army in their deployment...

28:47...of their handheld system basically later this year.

28:51So they're doing all the work, obviously, on integration with radios...

28:53...but the application itself has some useful functionality for dismounted soldiers.

28:59So go ahead and show you a quick example of that application.

29:06So the Army has selected the use of the Android operating system for their handheld devices.

29:11They've chosen this because this system is easy to embed into standard kind of commercial hardware...

29:17...that they can extend to make it work with radio communication.

29:22When you take this device with you in the field, it's provisioned with those same useful basemaps...

29:26...that Carolyn was showing earlier on the device...

29:30...and then generally, the soldiers would be essentially disconnected from that back-end server or online system.

29:35They'd be operating in the field with radio devices, communicating with each other over tactical communications.

29:41And they'd be receiving all this situational awareness information while they're in the field, on the device.

29:47So these blue forces that you can kind of see up on the projector would be other squad members maybe...

29:54...traveling around with us in our area.

29:57We can click on them and get some additional information about their locations.

30:01We can look at, for example, their history of their reporting.

30:05So we've been logging all the reporting from these other units; we can see the history of where they've been on patrol...

30:11...and we can actually look back over time and see where they went during their patrol.

30:16So maybe want to use that as an idea to not cover the exact same area they've gone, or if we want to deliberately cover it...

30:21...we know where they've been and when they were there, and we can interact with that information.

30:26We can also use this application to communicate with the soldiers around us that are on the patrol.

30:31So we can do a very simple form of communication, which is called the dropping a digital chem light.

30:37So that's just dropping a dot on the map, a colored dot, and that will be sent out to all the other soldiers in the squad.

30:42They get immediate access to it, and kind of unit SOP dictates how - what that means.

30:47So maybe red means a hostile activity.

30:49And then over the radio, they'll actually just say, you know, Taking sniper fire from the red dot...

30:53...or, you know, use it as a way to communicate.

30:55And then maybe once they've cleared it, they'll change it to green.

30:58It's a really simple way to aid in communication.

31:00So voice communication is really efficient in kind of high-intensity situations, but it's not efficient to send out grid coordinates...

31:07...to somebody else and have them plot it back on the map.

31:08So this is a simple way to communicate while you're in the field.

31:13We can also do is we can actually create more formal reports, so there's...

31:16When you're on patrol and you're not in a high-intensity environment...

31:19...you might have a job of reporting some specific information.

31:22So we're going to create a spot report, which is a standard-format report for things you observe when you're out.

31:29So in this case, maybe we'll see a team of irregular forces moving from one area to another.

31:37And we could actually attach a photo to it, so if we took a photo of those suspicious forces...

31:42...we added it to our report, and send that back in.

31:47So in this case, the spot report, of course, would be seen by all the fellow soldiers in my squad...

31:51...but it'd actually get sent back up to our headquarters and back into that online system.

31:55So this is going to help you have more situational awareness and understanding.

31:59So that report's used to either confirm enemy's course of action or activity in an area...

32:04...and it's used as part of the operations process to adjust the plan based on activity in the area.

32:10So that simple communication from one soldier to another is enabled by this...

32:14...but also the more formalized reporting that's done by the various elements in the field.

32:26So that was a quick example, some of the templates that we're building to support planning and operations.

32:30Now we're going to move into some of the intelligence analysis activities that are done.

32:35So we have a variety of templates out there for this.

32:37These are some templates we've been working on with actually many of you in this community.

32:41We have templates for what we refer to as position analysis; that's generally from an unclassified standpoint...

32:47...importing spreadsheets of information basically with coordinates in it, maybe some directional information...

32:52...plotting that on the map and then reviewing and interacting with it.

32:56Very common workflow for many intelligence analysts.

32:59We also have a visibility and range template, which is really all about performing different kinds of visibility analysis...

33:04...range rings, identifying different locations based on observers and activity.

33:09So this just streamlines the workflow for all of your different visibility analysis products.

33:15We also have a product for creating the imagery-derived product for helicopter landing zones.

33:20Once a helicopter landing zone's been identified, an analyst would mark up on top of the image...

33:25...the obstructions and obstacles in the landing zone and provide that to a pilot to take with them in the field.

33:31We've shown some examples of that in various sessions.

33:34What we're going to take a look at is two new templates we're working on; actually, both of them should say "coming soon."

33:39These are two new templates we're working on as part of our Land Operations and Maritime Operations modules.

33:45So the first one we'll take a look at is going to be our beach landing study, which is very similar to our...

33:53I'm probably getting these guys out of order; I think I told him the opposite order. That's fine.

33:57But we're going to take a look at - it's very much like our HLZ study, where you're marking up an image...

34:01...to provide a product that will - basically at the tactical edge to give it to the actual forces going ashore.

34:06It delineates the beach and other obstructions in the area and helps us capture some standard workflows to produce this product.

34:13So let me go ahead, and if John is ready, since I think I caught him by surprise, I'm going to turn it over to him. Okay.

34:17Alright. Alright, so this is the Maritime - ArcGIS Online on premises for maritime.

34:25So this would be for your organization, but for instance, this is our maritime portal.

34:30So I've been tasked to create a beach landing product, and if I was unfamiliar with what was contained in this product...

34:36...I could search the maritime server.

34:40And an example has been created for me, and what this is is an intelligent map.

34:45So this is a model or pattern that serves a specific purpose for others to use and copy.

34:51So just think of it as foundational data for a specific task, and this one is for a beach landing product.

35:00When I download it, I'm presented with a finished example.

35:02This gets me to understand what is contained in the product...

35:06...and allows me to replicate this with a new product of our new area of interest.

35:13I'm just going to spend a few moments in creating my own beach landing product.

35:17First, I want to mark boat lanes, such as left flank and right flank.

35:25And using a measurement feature, I can determine the width between these two flanks.

35:32Once I've figured out what area the beach landing's going to occur on...

35:37...I can then mark some obstacles that may stop maneuverability ashore, such as these rocky outcrop areas.

35:46Using the Freehand tool, and sketch these.

35:56And once that's complete, I want to mark some vegetation on the backshore.

36:04And with this intelligent map is a similar symbology for...

36:07When new map documents are opened, the symbology will be similar.

36:13This highlights a repeatable process where a standard-looking product could be created and shared amongst an organization.

36:23So if I was a new image analyst coming on board, I wouldn't have to spend too much time...

36:27...figuring out what trees are supposed to look like, because the symbology would be already defined here.

36:34Mark this building over here.

36:40And these aren't just graphics on this image; these are contained - the information goes into a geodatabase.

36:51And if there was a different type of geography, such as a tropical geography...

36:54...I might want to consider coral areas near shore or mangrove areas.

37:00So I'm going to finish by dropping some beach exits, maybe obstructions right there...

37:11...and once I've completed sketching these features, I can then go to the layout view...

37:17...and add some titling information, position information if you wish.

37:21So we'll call this Green Landing Beach.

37:25And then once that's complete, I could stand this up, a web mapping service; I could share it as a map package...

37:30...back to the server and share amongst the organization; or I could do the traditional method of printing this out...

37:36...and, you know, sharing it as a PDF or a JPEG.

37:41And on Navy bandwidth, it's under a megabyte, so there's not much of an issue there...

37:45...and once that's complete, I could share - it could be a maritime decision-making aid or for amphibious planners. Thank you.

37:54Alright, so thanks for going through that, John.

37:56So that was an example of a fairly simple, straightforward template to create a standard imagery-derived product.

38:03What you see there is some work we've done to just help out with that process.

38:06We've captured some of the standard elements you would use to create the product, so that way, you've...

38:11...more like a recipe to follow when the analyst is creating a product.

38:15You could add your own types of information into that palette before you actually give it to the analyst to follow...

38:20...and it just provides a nice way to get a standard-looking product.

38:22We also had some help with the cartography to make sure that those graphics show up on color imagery...

38:27...which we're getting a lot more of these days.

38:28So it's not the classic black-and-white product that maybe some of you are more familiar with.

38:33So we just want to capture some best practices workflows and help give you a jump start for creating this standard kind of product.

38:39So that's an example of the kind of resources we're providing to you.

38:43Now what we're going to do is we're going to step into, I'd say, a little bit more complex of a workflow...

38:46...which is really our Military Aspects of Terrain template.

38:50And this template is really all about creating the product that many of you fondly remember as called the MCOO...

38:55...which is really your Military Combined Obstacle Overlay.

38:58It's a synthesis of a lot of different information that you need to combine together to do some routine terrain analysis.

39:04So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Scott, and he's going to walk you through some elements of that template.

39:09Alright, thank you, Ben. And good morning, everybody.

39:12We're starting off at the brigade portal, and from here, in order to find the Military Aspects of Terrain...

39:18...I'll just type in military terrain, and it will search my portal for any information that would be pertaining to that.

39:26I can select my link for Military Aspects of Terrain template, and by simply just selecting Download...

39:33...it'll download this information from the brigade portal onto my local machine.

39:39When I open the information up, I'm presented with a completed, finalized MCOO product.

39:44This is centralized over the northern area of Jalalabad.

39:49In this area, it shows not only key terrain, engagement areas, and defensible terrain...

39:54...but also avenues of approach, both friendly and hostile.

40:00We have mobility corridors from brigade all the way down to troop level.

40:06We have obstacles that show up depending upon the scale.

40:10And we have our CCM, which is our cross-country mobility.

40:14And though this is geared towards lightweight vehicles, this tool can also be run to show it for personnel as well.

40:23Now, me being a new analyst, I can use this information to help me create a standardized product...

40:30...and my commander has tasked me with performing an analysis over the northeastern portion of my area of responsibility.

40:39We have a company-size corridor in which enemy movement has been spotted and noted...

40:43...and he wants to set up a surveillance team in order to assist tracking enemy movement.

40:51Using a high-point analysis conducted previously, we're going to select the location that best suits our needs...

40:57...to show the visibility on that corridor.

41:04Now, the Military Aspects of Terrain template comes with standardized tools already ready to go...

41:10...that encompass all of the technology and geospatial processing that we have.

41:14We're not dumbing down the software; we're simply just showing them...

41:18We're actually taking this information and condensing it into an easy-to-use model.

41:24So we have our model shown here, and the soldiers don't need to know the ins and outs of this model.

41:31They just need to know that it works and have a basic understanding of how to utilize it.

41:39To run this model, we simply double-click this information - or double-click the tool, and this information...

41:46...the model will open up and we can begin to collect it.

41:49So I know that my surveillance team has a radius of visibility of one and a half kilometers.

41:56So using my radius measurement, I can select one and a half kilometers, and I can begin the process of running the tool.

42:03Now, this tool is going to take into account all the underlying elevation data to perform that visibility.

42:08If it's deemed that that information is acceptable for the command, I can pass that information up to them...

42:13...so that this information is not lost.

42:16Now, all the tools, all the instructions on the tools can be included in a document such as this...

42:21...and this'll be included as a PDF version inside the template, along with the download.

42:28So once this information has completed, we'll be able to determine whether or not we have it all finalized and ready to go.

42:39There we go. And when we turn on the visibility shed, we do see that we have a very high visibility along this corridor.

42:48And, again, this information we can pass along to the planners and, ultimately, to the commander.

42:53And we have the ability, just like John showed, to share this information as a map package, a service...

42:59...or, if I want to just send a layer, I can load the layer package up to my ArcGIS Online account.

43:07And with that, I'll hand it over to Ben.

43:14Alright. So thanks for that, Scott.

43:15So we saw there a couple of examples of some templates we use to support the intelligence analysis process.

43:21In the case we just looked at, that'd be part of your intelligence preparation of the battle space or operational environment...

43:28...depending on where you're operating.

43:29So these are your standard workflows that are used by analysts in the field.

43:33So the other templates we talked about earlier are templates that are used by people in the intelligence agencies...

43:38...to perform their specific intelligence analysis.

43:40So these are the kinds of things we can provide as best practices and guidance in enabling the software.

43:44'Course you, as professionals, can also create these things yourself.

43:48You can have best practice examples that you share that capture tradecraft, the appropriate data sources...

43:53...the right tools and techniques, and the right finished product, and share those in these online systems and environments.

43:58So these are just examples of the full breadth of tools that you can provide to your own users and analysts...

44:04...for consistency and simplifying for training.

44:08So this was an overview of all the resources available. We didn't go into depth necessarily in any of them.

44:14We have a few other workshops that are going to be in this same room both today and tomorrow...

44:17...that you can come to to get an idea of maybe some more depth into one of the areas you're interested in.

44:22So we're going to go in depth on the using ArcGIS for military planning and operations.

44:26We're going to do that at 1330 in this room. That's one-thirty for you nonmilitary time folks.

44:32So we're going to go through that template, talk more about the decision support template...

44:36...and then some of the other applications - the squad leader and vehicle commander application -

44:40...as well as the tools for sketching your typical course of action sketches.

44:44And then we'll go in depth on the basemaps with Carolyn, talking through a lot more detail...

44:48...not just in how they were designed but also how to create the basemaps...

44:51...and just some of the techniques used in the actual creation and generation of those basemaps.

44:56And tomorrow, we'll talk about using ArcGIS Online for intelligence analysis.

44:59A lot of the focus on that will be on workflows for intelligence analysis overall and a little bit about some of the templates available.

45:06So you can come back tomorrow and participate in that.

45:10Once you go back home, you can actually take and access our resource center on resources.arcgis.com...

45:17...download the templates you've already produced, give us feedback on what you'd like to see...

45:20...either by contributing ideas or even posting your unclassified templates to that resource center.

45:26Obviously, it's on the Internet, so that would be what that's for.

45:30As we roll out these online systems on premises and in your environment...

45:34...you can contribute and upload your more sensitive information to those online systems.

45:40You can also check out ArcGIS.com and the tools and capabilities available in it...

45:44...to get familiar with what's going to be available in your on premises systems.

45:47And then also our Support site.