How are Military GIS requirements different?
7. Military decisions effect national security, physical destruction and human lives. It is the last line of defence of a nation. There is therefore no scope for even marginal error. Military planning involve a large diversity of singular civil interest areas. While GIS based civil application focus on a few features and derive thematic layers from these features, military commanders would be interested in performing analyses on the entire layers on a cartographic map. In addition to the tactical symbology is a vast and documented entities in themselves which also form part of a military commanders analysis. In addition military decisions have a lot of subjectivity. These are some of the the main factors that distinctly demarcates between a military GIS application from that of any civil application. GIS is integral to the common operational picture of any military ops. Some tactical information system functions that relate to terrain are:- • Terrain Analysis. • Mission Planning. • Sim
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