P3-74Pre-Course Study

05 Mapping

File:Pre-Study Pack, 25-Feb-25

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Foreword

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understand the necessary background knowledge and considerations before the CBRN-Analysis
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Introduction and Aim of this Study Pack

This CBRN-Analysis Pre-Study Pack will give students' an overview into how mapping is used by the
Operator and the considerations that have to be looked at when producing Exercise or Operational
Scenarios within the Application.

Study Completion

At the end of this pack, the Student will be able to:

• Understand how mapping is applied within CBRN-Analysis.

Duration: This pack should take no more than 15 minutes to study and read.

Material: All the study pack material is provided by Bruhn NewTech.

1 Contents
1 MAP INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 THE MAP ENGINE ............................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 INSTALLATION OF THE MAP ENGINE ......................................................................................... 4
2.1 ADDING ADDITIONAL MAPS............................................................................................................................................. 5
2.2 CREATING AND SAVING MAPS .......................................................................................................................................7
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1 Map Introduction
Maps provide a visual indicator to the Operator of where certain items that have been created in
CBRN-Analysis and where they are Geo-located. This could be Friendly Unit positions, suspected
Enemy Unit positions, sites of special interest, otherwise known as Risk Objects in CBRN-Analysis
and of course Hazard areas that have been produced from CBRN Message Reports.
Any map that is used inside CBRN-Analysis is displayed using a Geographical Information System,
in more simple terms, a Map Engine.
Chapter 6 of the CBRN-Analysis User (Operator) Reference Guide gives detailed information on all
aspects of Mapping, which formats can be used, Map Tools and much more Map function
information.
This document just gives a general outline of mapping but does highlight some important factors
that an Operator should be aware of.

1.1 The Map Engine

CBRN-Analysis does not have its own Map Engine, it uses a 3rd party application called Luciad
Lightspeed which is embedded inside CBRN-Analysis. If the Operator goes to the Main Menu bar in
CBRN-Analysis and clicks on “Help” then “ About CBRN-Analysis, displayed in text near the top of
the dialog window will be information that states CBRN-Analysis is using a Luciad Map Engine.
Further down will be text to indicate the pathway inside CBRN-Analysis where a PDF is available to
read the complete Luciad License agreement.
There are also some small components that are used inside CBRN-Analysis from MapInfo, but the
major component of the Map Engine comes from Luciad.

As a standalone system the Luciad Map Engine can provide a large amount of functions and
features, but when embedded into CBRN-Analysis a lot of these capabilities have not been added.
Remember, the Operators primary task is to produce and analyse Hazard prediction templates, not
be able to draw pretty pictures all over the map.
There are some basic drawing tools that CBRN-Analysis can use to create some visual information
that might assist in understanding the overall tactical picture in the Area of Operations, but they are
there, if used by the Operator, to enhance the CBRN situation, not overpower it with fancy drawings.

2 Installation of the Map Engine

When an Operator carries out the Installation process for CBRN-Analysis they will be asked to
confirm the pathways of where the Application (CBRN-Analysis) data should go. If they just leave it
at default then the installation process will create two Folders called Bruhn NewTech, with a Folder
inside each called CBRN-Analysis. One of these Bruhn NewTech Folders will be placed into Program
Files (x86) where there is no requirement for an Operator to gain access unless they have
Administration Rights for the Operating System. The other Bruhn NewTech Folder will be situated
in the Public Folder of the Operating System and the Operator should be able to gain access to this
folder.
There is a complete pathway that is explained and illustrated in the User (Operator) Reference
Guide in Section 6-1.
Where the Operator can gain access there will be another Folder called “Mapdata”, inside this folder
are various Folders and Files that link to the Map Engine.
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The Luciad Map Engine itself is located inside the Program Files of CBRN-Analysis, all the Operator
has access to is the Public domain area where they can add and delete maps from a Folder called
“Map WorkSpaces” .
Inside the Map WorkSpaces folder will be 4 link files to 4 different types of maps that are pre-
installed when CBRN-Analysis is installed. The links are known as Maple Worksheets (.mws) and
allow access to the basic maps that are supplied with CBRN-Analysis. The links will open up the 4
maps which are explained in more detail in Section 6 of the User (Operator) Reference Guide.

To recap, see Figure 1-1 below, CBRN-Analysis has a 3rd party Map Engine inside it that will provide
the Operator with 4 different maps that can use without having to import any other maps.

Figure 1-1 Mapping

2.1 Adding additional maps

As indicated there are 4 types of map provided with CBRN-Analysis, 2 of them, the World Default
and the World Enhanced can be used straight away with the Operator creating Units and Templates
directly onto these maps and get some form of visual idea of where they are. The World Enhanced
map as it suggests gives a bit more detail, but both maps are known as Vector Maps and will not
give that much map information. The Blank Map is as it states, is just a blank canvas that Operators
can import and place more detailed maps on top of.
The CAX Map is for use with the Computer Added Exercise (CAX) Module, which is an additional
function that Nations can add to CBRN-Analysis. The CAX Module provides 5 exercises per year that
are used and located on the CAX Map.

Figure 2-1 Blank Map/CAX Map/World Default Map/ World Enhanced Map
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The 3 maps, Blank, World Default and World Enhanced are what are termed as “Starter maps”, they
enable an Operator to carry out the functions of CBRN-Analysis straight away without any additional
mapping imagery.

It is the Operators responsibility to acquire and import additional maps sheets that can be displayed
in CBRN-Analysis. Where those map sheets are sourced from is down to the Operator or the Military
organisation that is using CBRN-Analysis, as long as they are in the correct format they will be able
to be used and displayed.
Any additional maps must be copied into the Map WorkSpaces folder, again more detail on this is
explained in Section 6.2 of the User (Operator) Reference Guide.
One of the “Starter maps” must be used as a background map, then any additional maps can be
postioned on top. Multiple map sheets can be added in various different scales depending on what
is available to the Operator.

Figure 2-2 Single map sheet added to a Starter map

The majority of Operators will use the World Enhanced map as their background map, then import
their required map sheets. There are procedures set out to be able to switch maps on to make them
visible earlier when zooming in. This is because the Map Engine is programmed to only make a map
visible when it reaches a certain height from the ground. This allows maps of different scales to be
placed one on top of another and depending how far off the ground the Map Engine; the correct
map will be visible to the Operator.
A point to note is that the Map Engine can handle and display a vast amount of maps, the only
limiting factor will not be CBRN-Analysis and the Map Engine but the processing capability of the
hardware device that is being used. The maps are copied from their Folder location and then
displayed inside CBRN-Analysis, for example, an Operator that has joined multiple maps together
and that combined information of maps is either of 5, 10 or 15 GB of data, then the hardware device
must process and continuously display that information via the hardware device graphics card.
Some Military hardware devices are nowhere near the capability of commercial/private hardware
devices in data storage or processing power.

So, this is something that an Operator must be aware of when importing maps. How much do they
really need and what type of maps are required. Is there a requirement to display lots of Satellite or
Aerial photography maps as they are very data intensive.
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2.2 Creating and saving Maps

For this example, the World Enhanced map is used. The Operator has decided to use the World
Enhanced Map as the Starter or Background map, then has imported a variety of other map sheets
including Aerial imagery on to of the World Enhanced map.
Again, how this process works, which order the maps are placed, which ones are displayed earlier
or later or indeed changing the name of the individual map as a layer are all explained in the User
(Operator) Reference Guide.
The final part of the process is to save the combined maps as a single map. The Operator will be
asked to Save first, then decide if they wish to change the name of the map. For best practice the
Operator will change the name of the map, because the Map Engine will copy the World Enhanced
map and paste it back into the Map WorkStation Folder as “World (Enhanced).mws” so that it can
be used again for another background map.

Figure 2-3 The Map Engine process of copying a Default map

When the Operator saves the combined maps with a new name the Map Engine will create a link
file so that it knows to join these maps together when that new map is displayed.

For example, the combined maps were called “UK Map” by the
Operator. The Map Engine now creates a .mws File called UK Maps
and knows when the Operator wishes to open that map it will join all
the required maps together and display them on the World Enhanced
Map.
This process frees up the Starter Maps to be used over and over
again with different map sheets on them if required.
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