t-kartor overview 2014
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Overview What we do Our customers Our ValueTRANSCRIPT
T-Kartor Introduction
Andy Garratt
VP European Sales
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3 Our Customers
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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Number of Products
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Cost
Number of Products
Total Cost--->
Unit Cost--->
Database
Many Updates
Single Update
Product
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.
T-Kartor
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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Customer Example: Defence & Security
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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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Project timeline R
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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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