GIS Within Belgian Defence

20 OCT 2011

Nicolas Gérôme

Michaël Fallay

Overview

• Introduction

• 2 Main examples

– Battle Management System

– MGCP Production

• Other GIS uses

• Conclusions

Military GIS: nothing new

Belgian Defense

• Budget 2.7 G€

• Manpower: 35000

• Today: 13 Operations in 6 theatres with 1200 people – Afghanistan: 600 + 6 F-16’s

– Libya: 150 + 6 F-16’s + 1 minesweeper

– Liban: 100

– Horn of Africa: anti-piracy: 150 + 1 frigate

– Democratic Republic Congo: 150

– Ouganda: 50

GIS within BE Defense

• ± 100 FTE’s

• ± 9 M€ (except personnel costs & meteo)

• ± 40 digital geodata consumer services

• ± 1 million paper maps (8000 ≠)

HELIOS

Data

Software

Hardware

Corporate

Operations

Intelligence

GIS: 3 pillars

Battle Management System

Battle Management System

Blue Force

Tracking

Enemy Spot

Reporting

Raster Maps

50K or more

Intuitive GUI

Integrated with

higher

Command

Limited

editing

possibilities

Integrated

Sensors

Synchronised

vector objects

Data Radio

Battle Management System

SatCom

Docked Mode

Vehicle Info

(fuel, ammo, …)

Communication Box

Sensors GPS

GIS engine

MGCP

• Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program

• International project to create 2D-vectordata, primarily

based upon satellite imagery

• World divided in cells of 1°x 1°

• Production scale 1:50k or 1:100K

• Based upon orthorectified high resolution (HR) imagery

– SPOT-5, IKONOS (multispectral), WorldView (panchro),..

• Additional data available to help the extraction of the

vectors

– Low resolution imagery (Landsat,..)

– Very High Resolution imagery on city area (Helios)

– Existing mapping

– Elevation data

MGCP: AOI

• Belgium:

– 13 cell + 13 in option

– Geopolitical choice

– Region: difficult

• Big cells

• Demography

• Habitat

• Vegetation

– Co-production

Defense-IGN

MGCP: Process

MGCP: Drawing

MGCP: Micro-cells

LOS Computations

LOS Computations

Incidents Analysis

Obstacle Analysis

Predictive route analysis

1

2

3

6

5

4

Target

Reducing observation assets, only 6 nodes to observe…

Air Space Coordination & Air Traffic

Air Surveillance

Maritime Surveillance

Meteo

CBRN Analysis

Simulation

Mission Planning

Missile Detection

Cable Management

Environment protection

Patrimonium & Cadastre

Change detection

2001 2004

2005 2011

UBL was there from 2006

Joint Operational Picture

Challenges

Main Partners