Report on future mapping, charting, and geodesy digital information and services available from the Defense Mapping Agency

The Defense Mapping Agency´s (DMA) mission is to provide Mapping, Charting, and Geodetic (MCandG) information and services to the US Armed Forces. DMA´s products range from paper maps and charts (including topographic maps, nautical and aeronautical charts and publications) to various digital databases (including Digital Terrain Elevation Data and Digital Chart of the World). It is in the digital data arena that DMA has been focusing their resources to transition from stocking paper maps on the shelf to creating a user-accessible Global Geospatial Information and Services (GGIS) Database. This paper describes DMA´s prototype digital products currently being evaluated, DMA´s efforts to create digital data in a family of standards (vector, raster, and text), and DMA´s GGIS concept