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Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment

The Installation Geospatial Information and Services (IGI&S) Capability

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The Defense Installations Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) Program

Mr. David LaBranche, PEGeospatial Information Officer

OASD(Sustainment)

25 September, 2019

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DoD Authorities for Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S)

• Geospatial information and services (GI&S)– The collection and use of geodetic,

geomagnetic, imagery, gravimetric, aeronautical, topographic, hydrographic, littoral, cultural, and toponymic data accurately referenced to the Earth

• The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has lead for all GI&S in DoD– Focus on warfighter support and

intelligence requirements– Coordinate all GI&S standards

within DoD

• Installation geospatial information and services (IGI&S)– A subset of GI&S– The GI&S data and maps tailored

to construction, sustainment, environmental management, and test and training range operations on DoD facilities worldwide

• The ASD(Sustainment) has lead for all installation management in DoD– Includes business systems and

associated data, standards– IGI&S is under ASD(S) purview

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How DoD Defines Geospatial Information & Services (GI&S)

GEOINT• Geographically portray the world; portray warfighter or intelligence assets• Support global safety of navigation, targeting, Perform ISR, produce intelligence

& other analytic products for warfighter and intelligence mission requirements

Installation Geospatial Information & Services (IGI&S)• Geographically portray DoD “sites” (installation, post, camp, or station),

“assets,” and “liabilities;” Map the environs of these sites/assets• Geo-enable DoD business systems and business lines / functional missions

(e.g. real property inventory, utilities, construction, maintenance, planning, recreation, environmental restoration, environmental management, range operations)

“Gray Area”Homeland Defense Worldwide Logistics

Space Management BIM

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Installation Geospatial Information and Services (IGI&S) – What It Is

• What is IGI&S used for? (examples)– Real property inventory and audit readiness – Utilities management and operation– Military range and training area operations and sustainment– Emergency response and E-911 routing– Installation master plans– Military construction and Civil Works projects– National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) studies– Encroachment planning and mitigation

• Typical IGI&S data:– Real property: site/parcel boundaries, buildings, roads, utilities, piers, airfields,

etc.– Environmental: remediation sites, endangered species habitat, wetlands,

hazardous material storage, cultural & historic assets, land use types, flood zones, etc.

– Ranges: range firing points, training areas, safety zones, impact areas, etc.– Safety: mishap sites, explosive safety arcs, air accident safety zones, noise

zones, etc.

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The Defense Installations Spatial Data Infrastructure (DISDI) Program – What it Does

• Policy, Guidance, and Oversight– Chair, IGI&S Governance

Group (IGG)– IGI&S policy (DoDI 8130.01)– IGI&S standards governance– IGI&S investment and

systems governance– Geospatial input to the

Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA)

– “Thought leadership” on use of geospatial technology for EI&E missions

• Direct Support– Maintain a DoD-wide GIS

database containing the “Common Installation Picture”

– Make data visible – Make data accessible– Make maps upon request– Perform spatial analysis

upon request– Provide tailored support to

EI&E functions upon request

SDSFIE = The Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment

A family of IGI&S standards for DoD

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SDSFIE Family of Standards

Fort Buchanan

SDSDIE-Vector (V) – content standard for vector features• Uniquely defines and names sets of objects which can

be represented by a point, line, or polygon, e.g.,• Installation Boundary - “Installation”• Road Centerlines - “RoadCenterline”• Building Footprints - “Building”

• Specifies attributes about the set of features, e.g.,• Building . numberOfFloors• Building . operationalStatus• Building . rpuid

SDSDIE-Metadata (M) – content standard for metadata• “Data about data” – defines a set of attributes that

describe the database for one set of features, e.g., • Originator – who created the data set?• Sources – what inputs were used to create the set

of features?• Processing Steps – what was done to the inputs to

create the set of features?• Currency – what is the time period of content?• POC - who can answer questions about it?

SDSDIE-Quality (Q) – data quality standard• Specifies how the inputs for geospatial features and

attributes should be collected, processed, and maintained, with QA/QC protocols and metrics

SDSDIE-Raster (R) – raster data guidance• Provides use cases, best practices, and a compendium of

standards for the acquisition and use of raster data

SDSDIE-Portrayal (P) – data portrayal specification• Specifies the manner in which data layers are to be

displayed, e.g., line color, line size, line type• Specifies how those specifications are to be stored,

maintained, and shared

Plus: SDSFIE-Services, and SDSFIE-Endorsed Standards

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Utilities Management (example)

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Utilities Mapping (Army)

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SDSFIE-V – Gas Utility Segment

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Sensitivity of IGI&S Data and Maps

• Increasing precision of IGI&S data has increased its sensitivity in this high threat environment– Raw, highly detailed IGI&S data poses greatest sensitivity and risk– Releasing large GIS datasets (aggregating multiple installations or

large geographic regions) also poses higher security risks

• Some sensitive IGI&S data is shared for official uses, but protected– US Census Bureau for decennial census– Homeland security community for emergency response

• Basic IGI&S data and installation maps publicly released after security review

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Useful Links

• DoDI 8130.01, Installation Geospatial Information and Services (IGI&S) (download on DoD Issuances site http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/)

• http://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/BSI/BEI_DISDI.html DISDI Program public page with links to the DoD Components’ IGI&S Program web pages are here

• http://sdsfieonline.org Public registry of IGI&S data standards and related documents (registration required)

• http://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/Downloads/DISDI/installations_ranges.zip Downloadable data set for Military Installations, Ranges, and Training Areas (shapefile)

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More Useful Links

• Our PUBLIC data is displayed here (site run by USACE): https://geoplatform-usace.opendata.arcgis.com/– You can select the "mapping" button at the top of this page or

you can go directly to their map viewer here: http://corpsmapu.usace.army.mil/cm_apex/cm2.cm2.map

– Once in the map viewer you can open the layers folders on the left side table of contents. Our data is under "National Admin/Military Boundaries/Defense Site Locations" in the table of contents; select “Defense Site Locations” to see the installations.