RMSI - GIS/RS Case Study
Understanding the Earth’s landscape and phenomena is something that humans have tried to gauge for millennia. Knowing where features such as bridges lie on a major transport route, how big an airfield is when assessing logistical feasibility, how large a population is close to a farming community.
This feeds into a lot of decision-making and planning cycles for Defence organisations throughout the world. Being able to accurately assess and analyse potential war and conflict zones with up-to-date spatial information allows military commanders and government officials to analyse and plan operations.
Working alongside RMSI, LAT were employed to be part of the multi-national geospatial co-production (MGCP) programme, a unified effort from over 30 countries in producing high-resolution topographic data, assisting the MOD with a dataset production of an area of interest.
Conforming to MGCP Technical Reference Documentation (TRD) specifications and meeting ISO 19115 and 19139 standards, LAT assisted with the extraction of features such as, boundaries and markers, hydrography, industry, physiography, place names, population, transportation, utilities, vegetation, and more, whilst producing key documentation to assist for future use.
GIS expertise and experience with remotely sensed data were key to the success of this project.