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Geospatial Information to Support decision Making in Operations 3
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Geospatial information is a key resource for the planning and execution of military operations and training activities. Member States decided in 2013 to address the issue of availability of geospatial information for EU operations through a landscaping study (the GISMO). As a result of this landscaping study, a new development project, GISMO2 was launched with the aim to:
• Disseminate GeohuB among the user community including EEAS and Member States.
Why To support the decision making process in the context of CSDP, with particular emphasis on OHQs and national command structures; standardization of products and services.
• Build a technological demonstrator (GeohuB) with the functionality of a geospatial content manager with view, edit and share functionalities.
Who/Where
• Install and test this demonstrator (GeohuB) at the premises of an EU OHQ (Rome OHQ for Operation Sophia).
GISMO3 is a common endeavour resourced by EDA and EU SatCen in cooperation with Member States, EUMS, IT EU OHQ, Multi National Geospatial Support Group.
GISMO 3 intends to build a comprehensive and complete solution for the exploitation of GIS data in an operational environment.
When End October 2017.
What An intuitive and functionally rich tool called GeohuB to improve the access to geospatial information for CSDP, based on the technological demonstrator developed during GISMO2. • Continue the development of GeohuB to include functionality requested by the users during GISMO2 (e.g. Terrain and Network capabilities, Briefing mode). • Run an operational test to analyse Service Transition into operational phase.
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Member States
Project Milestones
Member States benefit from this initiative at different levels. The capabilities developed will facilitate their operational participation in CSDP operations. Other geospatial HQ activities outside CSDP commitments will benefit from the outputs of GISMO3 as well by implementing the same technologies for management of geospatial information.
Intermediate developments will be provided to the OHQs and MSs willing to participate for collection of feedback. The main milestones are: • ML16 Support October 2016 • Transfer to Operational Network December 2016 • Operational Field Trial at IT EU OHQ February 2017 • Fielded Initial Operating Capability and Consolidation of GeohuB v1.0 October 2017
Implementation cycle The project is implemented in close cooperation with the EU OHQ offered by Italy for testing and validation. During the life of the project a 2 month spiral methodology is applied, enabling the user to be involved during the development phase by providing feedback at several fixed stages.
Last update: 7 March 2017