T-Kartor overview 2014

T-Kartor Introduction

Andy Garratt

VP European Sales

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What we do

The T-Kartor Group

AGENDA

4 Our Value

Why T-Kartor?

• Medieval world map

• ‘T’ referred to the

Mediterranean, the Nile

and the Don, separating

the three continents of

Asia, Europe and Africa

• ‘O’ corresponds to the

circumscribing Ocean

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T-Kartor Group

T-Kartor creates value for our clients through creative and effective use of geospatial information

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• Founded in 1985

• Over 140 Employees in 6 countries

o SE, US, UK, CZ, NO, FI

T-Kartor – Our Company

Major customers

• Aeronautical o Norwegian Defence since 1999

o Norwegian Civilian Aircontrol Avinor since 2010

o NGA since 2011

• Hydrographical o Finnish Maritime Administration since 1997

o UK Hydrographic Organisation since 2004

o BLAST (EU project for Hydro and Topo) since

2010

• Topographical o Norwegian Defence since 1999

o US Forest Service since 2002

o Czech Land Survey since 2011

• City Wayfinding o Transport for London since 2003 (and LOCOG!)

o New York City since Dec 2011

o Birmingham since June 2012

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Recognised solutions

#1

“Excellence in Technology”

– National Transport Awards 2012

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Foundation GEOINT requirements

• Efficient Production / Maintenance, in time

– Well managed feature content, closely coupled to:

• Source exploitation processes

• Outputs – multiple products/ scales etc

• Effective Provision Service in defence networks

– IT service infrastructure to provide Foundation GEOINT:

• Multiple security levels

• All applications and individual users

• All providing agencies / authorities

• Operational flexibility and control

– Support sharing / cooperation

• Robust security and interoperability

– Support user engagement with providers

• Discovery / requirements process/ error & update handling etc.

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Challenges in the Defence Geospatial

environment

• Decreasing budgets

• Reducing manpower

• Interoperability

• Multinational operations

• Civil and Military

cooperation

• Integrated networks

• Many applications

• Information dominance (time

and quality)

• Increased Requirements

• Coverage

• Responsiveness

• Mission specific

requirements

• eg. Human Terrain

• Special GEOINT

Mitigation Strategies • International cooperation and burden sharing

• Production efficiency

• High value manpower employed most effectively

• International/ Open Standards

• Robust information management

• Seamless production databases

• Multiproduct operations

• Focused source exploitation/management

• Distribution Services

• Fighting off the same map

• Web, hardcopy, platforms & weapon systems.

• Pushing and pulling

T-Kartor has

• Used database-driven cartography since 1995

• Optimised the concept of “one-feature one-time” to create a: – multi-source

– multi-scale

– multi-product

– Multi-format

• Production system using single database storage

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JOG 1:250 000

ONC 1:1 000 000

TPC 1:500 000

Cartographic Production System (CPS)

Technical overview

Central knowledge base

• Obstacles • Flight zones • Airfields • Maritime updates • Topographic data

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Product versus Database Centric

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Database centric production

Key factors to optimise cost / product

• Seamless Database Centric production

o Same supplier for AOI (Area of Interest)

o Generate multiple products from same AOI

o Continually maintain the database for the AOI

• Automate the Product-On-Demand processes

o Paper charts, GeoTiff, PDF, CADRG, MDG etc

• Consistent data sources

o Unique identifiers for cartographic objects

o Minimize changing data sources over time

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With domain expertise in aero, topo and hydro, T-Kartor has provided co-source

and outsource database centric mapping services to Military (and civilian)

organisations throughout the globe for 20 years.

Complimentary to full outsourcing, co-sourcing allows for efficient outsource while

retaining skilled in-house capability, enabling response to emergency surge

requirements and new product definition.

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Customer Example: City Wayfinding

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Transport for London

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Project timeline

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One database – many products

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• > 25,000 unique maps from a single seamless database

• > 50 million objects o House numbers, points of interest, transport nodes, roads, 3D

building models, etc.

• Dozens of product types

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Norwegian Military Geographic Service

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• High Spec cartography – over 70 maintained layers

• Updates Frequency - twice monthly, available in DB 48 hours

• High security - complete data kept on an isolated, secure

network, a mirror of the data is kept with our customer

FMGT Project description

• Unified product generation and maintenance handling – Norway in 4 scales (50K – 1M) covering also up to Svalbard

• Seamless database – cartographic (scale-specific) and geographic parts

• T-Kartor have taken greater responsibility over time (next slide)

• Controlled update workflows of prioritized (air safety) data sources – Obstacles (masts, power lines etc) and Aeronautical information

• Deliveries 4 times/year Norway – Seamless GeoRaster

– Printed charts

– CHAD-NOR (Chart Amendment Document Norway)

– Backup system (deployable in 48 hours)

– Complete Database

• Priority on information maintenance, not product generation

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Norwegian Military

Geographic Service

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One Feature One Time database centric

business model

Supports the efficient use of the data within

the database for new or modified products

Proposed new 1:250K symbology

compared to existing 1:250K symbology.

New symbology for obstacles and power

lines, new hill shading and colour schema

deliver readability and clarity.

Norwegian Military

Geographic Service

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One Feature One Time database centric

business model

Supports the efficient use of the data within

the database for new or modified products

Proposed new 1:500K symbology

compared to existing 1:500K symbology.

New symbology for obstacles and power

lines, new hill shading and colour schema

deliver readability and clarity.

Customer Example: Web Geoportal

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NATO's first web geoportal

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• High security web geoportal

• Used by thousands of military personnel through a web client

• Vast array of data sources (Aerial, Satellite, Vector, METOC, . .)

• international and Open Source standards adhered to including:

ISO; OGC and W3C

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“T-Kartor are providing aeronautical update

services according to AIRAC to the

Norwegian Air Force together with printed

charts and other Digital Geographic

Information.

T-Kartors capability to deliver additional

services related to ongoing Research &

Development is also noteworthy”.

Kjetil Utne, FMGT

Our Value

• Unit cost reduction by 70-90%

• One change – once – to “all” relevant products

• Multiple products from a “single” database

• Custom tailored products from the same database

• Not limited to standard product definitions

• Mission specific products

• Highly automated, flexible and interoperable

• Improved alignment with operational decision cycle

• Proven capability since 1995

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Realising Today’s Foundation GEOINT

Requirements

Production / Maintenance / Readiness:

● Content Management focus

● Linked end to end processes

● On-demand outputs from a seamless well maintained database

● One feature, one time!

Network Delivery

● Foundation GEOINT operationally managed and delivered as a web service in modern defence networks

● Coordination / support for hardcopy map / chart supply

GEOINT providers can focus on delivering and maintaining the best foundation to support the mission

Commanders can rely on a robust tool to underpin any common picture with coherent, assured ground information

Users can access, utilise, collaborate and share whenever, wherever, and however with effective operational controls.

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Fighting off the same map . . .

Way Ahead

Consider Outsourcing / Co-Sourcing some Foundation GEOINT production and maintenance

● Regional multi – product approach best

● Contingency readiness can focus on building / maintaining seamless database, with outputs if / when needed – with flexibility

Consider web based discovery, access and control for Foundation GEOINT in defence networks

● All users, applications and security levels

● Updating/ maintenance

● Operational controls

● Interoperability

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