DISTRIBUTION AND SUPPORT OF THE CENSUS SUPER SAMPLE

Not Available The ARA team will analyze the capability of the GIS to meet the requirements for database development to support mission planning and rehearsal systems. Specifically, the team will investigate the family of GIS products from ESRI, which is a world leader in GIS software, as the baseline for GIS evaluation. The team will analyze and identify those GIS capabilities that meet the mission planning and rehearsal requirements, what requirements are not met, and what future GIS capabilities may satisfy the requirements. Once the GIS capabilities satisfying the requirements have been identified, then we will design and develop methodologies that will meet these needs. Some of the areas, already identified, which would greatly improve the capabilities for mission planning and rehearsal are as follows: direct and collateral bombing operation damage prediction and assessment, dynamic terrain blast effects, merging of data sources and OPFOR tactics to predict anti-aircraft and other threat locations, multi-spectral image and geometry input/capture and manipulation for large area databases with scalable complexity, and the creation of high resolution urban area databases. The analysis of the mission planning and rehearsal requirements performed by the ARA team may identify other areas that need to be developed. The Phase I Option portion of the proposal will consist of the ARA team developing a preliminary design for the implementation of the needed GIS enhancements.