Accession Number:

ADA289958

Title:

XMap: A General Purpose Mapping Program.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Jan-Jun 93,

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Ingham, Holly A.

Report Date:

1995-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

26.0

Abstract:

The Military Computer Science Branch MCSB of the Advanced Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, Army Research Laboratory, has been developing concepts to provide enhanced information exchange on the battlefield as part of an on-going, long-term research effort known as the Information Distribution Technology IDT. Application programs were developed to test, evaluate, and demonstrate information distribution research concepts. As the IDT matured, new application programs were needed that could more readily address the information distribution concepts. Hence, a new suite of demonstration application programs was developed. Among these applications is the program XMap, a general purpose program for displaying topographical map information and other military symbols used in planning. This report focuses on the development and execution of XMap. MM

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER GRAPHICS
• *TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• INFORMATION EXCHANGE
• BATTLEFIELDS
• MAPPING
• MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE
• DATA LINKS
• DIGITAL MAPS

Subject Categories:

• Cartography and Aerial Photography
• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE