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Terrain Analysis
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- FM
5-33 US Army Field Manual, Terrain Analysis
-- Prescribes the basic doctrine for Terrain Analysis and is
intended to serve as a primary source of the most current
available information on Terrain Analysis procedures for all
personnel who plan, supervise, and conduct Terrain
Analysis. The manual discusses the impact of the terrain
and the weather on operations. Alternate
source.
- FM
5-170 US Army Field Manual, Engineer Reconnaissance
-- describes how engineer recon teams
support and augment a maneuver battalion or brigade's recon
effort. It is designed as an engineer extension of FMs
17-95 and 17-98.
This manual serves as a guide for both brigade and task force (TF)
engineers, as well as for subordinate leaders (especially recon
team leaders) in planning, integrating, and conducting recon
operations. It also serves as a guide for the brigade and TF
staffs and subordinate maneuver commanders on the organization,
capabilities, and employment of engineer recon teams.
This manual sets forth the principles of
conducting engineer recon activities supporting a maneuver
brigade or TF. It addresses engineer tactics, techniques, and
procedures (TTP) that highlight critical principles. However,
the TTP are intended to be descriptive rather than prescriptive;
they are not a replacement for the TTP and standing operating
procedures (SOPs) that are unique to the supported uni.
- FM
3-34.230 US Army Field Manual, Topographic Operations.
Excellent resource discussing all phases of terrain analysis and
the products and techniques used to perform the analysis and
disseminate the information to the soldier. Describes
doctrine for topographic operations in support of the US Army's
strategic, operational and tactical missions. See also FM
3-34.331 Topographic Surveying.
- FM
3-06.11 -- US Army Field Manual, Combined Arms
Operations in Urban Terrain. Formerly FM 90-10 Military
Operations in Urbanize Terrain (MOUT). Discusses Urban
Terrain Analysis
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5-430-00-1 Planning and Design of Roads, Airfields and
Heliports in the Theater of Operations -- Road Design Volume
1. Includes informative chapter on trafficability
analysis of the soil and vehicle interaction with the terrain.
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Digital Mapping
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- NGA
Geospatial Standards and Specifications -- Specs for DTED,
Combat Charts, City Graphics (CG), Harbor Approach Charts (HACs),
Operational Navigation Charts (ONC), Planning Terrain Analysis
Database (PTADB), Tactical Terrain Analysis Database (TTADB),
Topographic Line Map (TLM), Tactical Pilotage Charts (TPC),
Digital Bathymetry Database (DBDB) and more. Requires
account from Assist.
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NIMA
TR8350.2 Department of Defense World Geodetic System 1984,
Its Definition and Relationships with Local Geodetic Systems.
Third Edition, Amendment 1, 3 January 2000. Provided by the
NGA
Geospatial Sciences Division, Publications. This is
the document that defines the WGS-84 coordinate system.
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Defense
Mapping Agency Technical Manual 8358.2
The Universal Grids: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) and
Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS), September
1989. Provided by the
NGA Office
of GEOINT Sciences, Publications.
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Defense
Mapping Agency Technical Manual 8358.1 Datums, Ellipsoids, Grids
and Grid Reference Systems. Provided
by the NGA
Office of GEOINT Sciences, Publications, Publications. An excellent
introduction to the concepts.
- The Digital Geographic Information Exchange
Standard (DIGEST), Part 4, Annex B, Attribute and Value Codes,
Edition 2.1, September 2000. Annex B defines the Feature
Attribute Coding Catalog (FACC) used for producing digital map
products.
Many existing NIMA digital products are produced with the
Feature/Attribute Coding Standard, or FACS (see above). However,
the Feature/Attribute Coding Catalog (FACC), is NATO
Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 7074 and will likely become
an international standard. Therefore, NIMA plans to produce new
products according to the FACC. This standard has many
similarities to the MIL-STD-2408 (see below).
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EGM96
- WGS-84 Earth Gravity Model 1996
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WMM
2000 - World Magnetic Model 2000
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MIL-STD-2408 (DMA) Department of Defense Standard Practice,
Mapping, Charting and Geodesy Glossary of Feature and Attribute
Definitions, 21 April 1995. This document defines the
features and attribution in use in the Feature/Attribute Coding
Standard (FACS) that is used by NIMA to produce its digital
mapping products within the Digital Production System (DPS)
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