implementing an imagery management system at mexican navy.pdf

7/27/2019 Implementing an Imagery Management System at Mexican Navy.pdf

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MEXICAN NAVYMEXICO

CASE STUDY:


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IMPLEMENTING AN

IMAGERY MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM IN THE

MEXICAN NAVY

Since 1941, the Mexican Navy has carried out the presidential mandate

to oversee and saeguard 11,000 kilometers o Mexican coastlines,

inland water bodies suitable or navigation, and the territorial sea

and maritime aerial space.

Security tasks at the Mexican Navy are continuous and mission-critical;

thereore, reliable and ecient technical systems and solutions are

required to support these operations. The response capability o the

Navy is o the utmost importance, so modernization programs are

constantly underway.

Geospatial management and delivery systems are considered

instrumental in decision-making processes at the Mexican Navy.

These systems are responsible or delivering geospatial inormation

near real-time to eld oces distributed across the country. Thereore,

they invest in contemporary solutions to provide the most advanced

technological capabilities available. A special division or handling

imagery and geospatial inormation oversees these operations,

and all unctions are perormed by highly trained military personnel.


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MISSIONThe mission o the Mexican Navy Satellite and

Geospatial Inormation Division is to create

accurate geospatial products and guarantee

secure, ast access to up-to-date geospatial

inormation or national security tasks or

maritime segments. The division manages

and administers the Mexican Navy imagery

warehouse, which includes hundreds o

terabytes and thousands o images. Through

geospatial analysis and processing, the

division provides secure and accurate

responses to geospatial inquiries and delivers

high-quality geospatial products to Navycommands. It is also responsible or continuous

technological advancements, to ultimately

ensure inormation is disseminated in a reliable

and timely manner. The Navys goal is to

remain a top-level, world-class geospatial

security and military agency.

DATA STORIES AND DELIVERYThe Mexican Navy has a large and growing

geospatial warehouse o medium-resolutionand high-resolution imagery derived rom the

Mexican SPOT Ground Antenna (ERMEXS)

and other satellite sources. The ERMEXS is an

advanced terminal or the reception, storage,

extraction, and archive o SPOT imagery.

Imagery and derived products are acquired and

produced every day, and are an integral part

o almost 90 percent o the departments

processes. The geographic area o interestcovers all o Mexico, or nearly 2,000,000

square kilometers o land. This data supports

decision-making activities related to planning,

execution, and control o naval operations.

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The Mexican Navy saeguards 11,000 kilometers o Mexican coastlines,

inland water bodies suitable or navigation, and the territorial sea and

maritime aerial space..


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The goal is to continue to grow the data store

and, in conjunction, expand its geospatial client/

server architecture through a secure Web portal.

Some specic operations or which

geospatial inormation is crucial are:

Monitoring and patrolling border areas north

and south o the country

Recognition and security patrolling

Rescue operations during natural disasters

Support assistance relie during natural

disaster and res

Reorestation eorts and campaigns

Troop training in military operations

and logistics

3D topographic modeling or planning

military operations

ISSuES wITh gROwINg DATAquANTITY AND DEMANDSIn early 2007, the Mexican Navys Imagery and

Geospatial inormation division was struggling

to keep its imagery catalog up-to-date, along

with perorming its other primary duties. The

department was under pressure to make sense

o the increasing variety and quantity o imagery

products being delivered, and simultaneously

respond to growing internal and external

demands or that data.

For example, a new requirement was the urgent

need to deliver up-to-date, large-imagery mosaics

or use in a variety o remote sensing and GIS

applications across the country. Thereore,

department sta required their imagery catalog

to be current to easily nd inormation and create

mosaics in a timely manner.

Geospatial management and delivery systems are responsible or

delivering geospatial inormation near real-time to eld oces

distributed across the country.

The main requirements o the Mexican Navy

were to:

Catalog and disseminate massive amounts

o raster inormationRespond quickly to imagery queries

and requests

Immediately deliver geospatial inormation

Securely share geospatial data and inormation

between users

Edit vectors in an Oracle database in

real time

ThE INTERgRAph SOLuTIONOcers o the Mexican Navy worked closely with

MAPA, the ocial ERDAS Distributor in Mexico.

Together, they perormed several tests using the

Mexican Navys data and IT inrastructure. Mexican

naval ocers are long time ERDAS IMAGINE

(remote sensing) and LPS (photogrammetry) users,

and also have deep experience in relational

databases and GIS. With this level o experience

in image processing and cartography, they had a

very clear understanding o what was required.


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Magdalena Garcia-Rendon, General Manager o Geospatial Solutions

or MAPA, says this about the challenge, We were committed to

provide an innovative solution to the customer and help them solve

the problem o handling huge volumes o data. ERDAS APOLLO is

an extremely suitable solution to support data integration and

collaboration in strategic military applications.

Ater careul technical evaluation, it was determined that ERDAS

APOLLO met the needs and strategic IT requirements the Navy was

looking to ulll or its operational tasks. Available in three tiers,

ERDAS APOLLO is an enterprise-class data management and

delivery system enabling an organization to describe, catalog, search,

discover, and securely disseminate massive volumes o data. ERDAS

APOLLO seamlessly integrates with existing GIS environments,

leveraging business systems and supporting almost any kind o data

input. The solution would also be supported by ERDAS ADE, an

integrated suite o products enabling real-time editing o an

enterprises spatial and non-spatial data in an Oracle database via

the web, desktop, or mobile devices.

Through the implementation o ERDAS APOLLO Advantage and

ERDAS ADE, the Mexican Navy has been able to build and maintain

an integrated geospatial inormation workfow with centralized and

secure administration.

The Intergraph solution at the Mexican Navy.


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The Mexican Navy is responsible or operation o the Mexican SPOT

Ground Antenna (ERMEXS), which is an advanced terminal or the

reception, storage, extraction, and archiving o SPOT imagery.

SOLuTION TO MEET ThE NAVYS NEEDSFor the solution at the Mexican Navy, two main

components o ERDAS APOLLO were tightly

integrated with ERDAS ADE to solve its needs:

ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Image Web Server

and ERDAS APOLLO Advantage. The ERDAS

TITAN Client is utilized on the ront-end or

visualizing geospatial data and location-based

content and web services, and as the 3D globe

interace to the solution.

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One o the key reasons or selecting ERDAS

APOLLO was the level o integration the system

enabled, and the ability or end-users to discover

and access secure web services in existing

applications. ERDAS APOLLO enables seamless

data delivery into the various desktop applications

in use across the Mexican Navy, including ERDAS

IMAGINE, LPS, ArcGIS, MapIno, AutoCAD, Gaia,

and a variety o web clients, to name a ew.

The solution also acilitates geospatial collaboration

schemas in real time through the Mexican Navy

oces across the country, as well as collaboration

with other agencies in the Mexican

Federal Government.

ERDAS APOLLO was customized according

to the specic needs o the Mexican Navy,

in conjunction with MAPA. During project

implementation, the ocers o the Mexican Navy

received all necessary training to prociently

manage and operate ERDAS APOLLO

by themselves.

CuSTOMIzINg AN INTEgRATED


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Navy personnel create sharable data and content mashups in the TITAN Viewer 3D globe and

visualize both local and shared data, along with centralized raster and vector web services.


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Using light Web applications in a browser with ERDAS ADE, Navy personnel are able to create, edit,

and update vector inormation rom the eld and directly into the Oracle database. All edits occur near

real-time, so others may query and visualize easily through the same Web browser.


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schools and preparing or disasters, to identiying

strategic acilities or surveying and protection.

Web services rom ERDAS APOLLO are streamed

in as background during the editing process.

pOSITIVE RESuLTSFor the Mexican Navy, ERDAS APOLLO

catalogs continuously updated data stores and

simultaneously delivers hundreds o image

mosaics and derivative products via secure web

services to various levels o government. For the

rst time, a huge mosaic o several gigabytes is

easily accessible or rapid display, using nothing

more than a web client.

The Chie o the Department or the Imagery

and Geospatial Inormation Division, said,

For the Mexican Navy, Intergraph has provided

a technological tool to improve, modernize, and

acilitate the current competence regarding the

handling o enterprise geographic inormation

used or planning operations. The Intergraph

solution is a complete workfow. Satellite imagery

processing and analysis is perormed, including

geometric corrections, advanced processing,

and multispectral analysis both in 2D and 3D

environments. Then the solution enables the

administration, management and dissemination

o massive volumes o inormation. Through all

o this, we are now well-equipped to provide

Navy Commands with accurate and reliable

geospatial inormation or operation development

and decision-making support.

With thousands o images to access and distribute,

ERDAS APOLLO Essentials Image Web Server

enables the Mexican Navy to serve a huge image

mosaic in a compressed ormat. This imagery can

then be accessed by a variety o applications in

use at the Mexican Navy. Ecient algorithms in

the sotware already reduce mosaic production

time. In addition, delivery via a compressed mosaic

saves the departments valued storage resources.

ERDAS APOLLO Advantage includes a desktop

data sharing module that enables users on a

network to publish, discover, and visualize each

others data in a real-time scenario, all while using

a chat tool to communicate. Navy personnel

quickly share data with permissions to other users,

and easily create sharable data and content

mashups in the TITAN Viewer 3D globe. These

mashups include local data, data rom other

users, and centralizedraster and vector web

services rom ERDAS APOLLO and other server

solutions at the Mexican Navy. ERDAS APOLLO

EssentialsImage Web Server provides the

basemap or the TITAN Viewer 3D globe.

Using light web applications in a browser with

ERDAS ADE, Navy personnel are able to create,

edit, and update vector inormation directly in the

Oracle database rom the eld. All edits occur

near real-time, so others can immediately query

and visualize changes. Tasks are diverse and

range rom collectinginormation on critical

acilities such as aid centers, hospitals, and

Te Interra soltion is acomlete orkfo.


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FuTuREIn the uture, the Mexican Navy expects to

continue growing the ERDAS APOLLO system.

Currently, the integrated solution is ullyimplemented and operational at the Mexican

Navy. Phase II integrates more cataloging, serving,

and geoprocessing unctionality rom ERDAS

APOLLO. This implementation will enable spatial

analysis experts at the Mexican Navy to share

their knowledge by publishing spatial models via

OGC-compliant WPS. End-users can then

execute and create value-added data products,

and simultaneously increase the use o geographic

inormation via web services at the Mexican Navy.

With ERDAS APOLLO in place at the Mexican

Navy, end-users have seen a signicant

improvement in image delivery and the ability

to easily integrate geospatial inormation into

their applications. They also now have the

means to engage in higher levels o

geospatial collaboration.

One user said about the system, The end-users

are very pleased with the geospatial inormation

integration in their daily work, as it supports their

decision-making processes.

Photo Credits

Cover: US Navy 050909-N-8154G-045 A Mexican Navy Mi-8 helicopter

stands by or passengers on the fight deck aboard the amphibious

assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), o the coast o Mississippi.

Page 2: US Navy 090423-N-2821G-389 The Mexican navy Knox-class

rigate ARM Mina (F-214) sails in ormation with maritime orces rom

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Mexico,

Peru, U.S. and Uruguay o the coast o Florida during the UNITAS Gold

Page 7: US Navy 100620-N-5319A-030 Mexican marines board the

amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD-18) orexercises in Manzanilla, Mexico

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