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Will Mortenson, NGA Foundation GEOINT Group

7 December 2016

NSG Open Mapping Enclave (NOME)

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NSG Open Mapping Enclave (NOME)

An NGA initiative to implement Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI)

concepts and tools to produce foundation GEOINT data

within the Intelligence Community, the NSG, and among our foreign partners.

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Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI): Crowd-sourced mapping

“Every Soldier a Sensor”

Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 www.army.mil

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Volunteered Geographic Information “Triad”

NOME

ActiveVGI

PassiveVGI

• Traditional VGI contributions from the “community-crowd” (not publicly accessible)

• Requirements based campaigns• Ad-hoc/crisis campaigns• Data conflation• Current capability

• Automated Feature Extraction (AFE) validation

• New feature generation• Quality assurance• Developing capability

• Imagery to the public via open crowd mapping website

• Crowd-seeding• Developing capability

CommunitySourcing

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NSG Open Mapping Enclave…What will it do for the NSG and Partners?

RequirementsDriven

Ad-Hoc Generation

Tasking Manager

ASG MGCP

NSG

Vendors

Producers

MapEdit “Living Map”

• Provides trusted users with an interface for dynamically enriching foundation GEOINT

• Enables dynamic content generation via a “living map” to enhance static map production

NSG Open Mapping Enclave

Hootenanny

Conflation and Translation

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Services

• “Living Map” with editing tools and data export including multiple data schemas

• Tasking Manager

• Geonode data repository

• Hootenanny data conflation tool

• Data investigation tools

• Extraction guides

• Question and answer message board

Security

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provided through commercial cloud service

• NSG, ASG, MGCP access (NOT PUBLIC)

• Dual-factor authentication

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NOME Way Ahead

Program

• Outreach, outreach, outreach

• Training programs including videos and site visits

Technology Development

• SIPR deployment

• Investigating integration with Cartographic Web Services (CWS)

• Ground photo overlay

• Disconnected editing for mobile devices

• Integration with GIS desktop applications

• Network analysis via Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM)

• Synchronization across security domains