Abstract

The U.S. Army's use of Esri software for GeoPDF production
Track: Cartography and Map Production
Authors: Ray Caputo

The U.S. Army Geospatial Center's [AGC] GeoPDF Project has implemented a third party extension for export and import of the GeoPDF file format within ArcGIS. These tools plus the ArcGIS native PDF Map export gives the Army the ability to produce better 'looking' mission specific products that are easier to view by the non-mappers in the Army. Files created using ESRI tools and extensions will give all soldiers the geospatial information they need to make better battlefield decisions. AGC has had a hand producing 33,000 standard NGA map sheets & converting almost 60,000 USGS Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) files to GeoPDFs. AGC also is producing their Urban Tactical Planners (UTP), Engineering Route Studies, Urban Water Graphics, BuckEye Mapbooks, Country Overviews and Cultural Maps in the GeoPDF format. Work on converting all NGA's Arc Digital Raster Graphics (ADRG) and Controlled Image Base (CIB) into GeoPDFs is in the very near future.