INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY REQUIREMENTS FOR VIDEO DISC BASED MAP LIBRARY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86M00017R000400310081-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: March 20, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Information Handling Committee
WASHINGTON, DC 20505
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Mickey Lohr
Defense Mapping Agency
Attn: PR
IHC/MM 84-33;.( LOGGED
20 March 198
Vice Chairman, Intelligence Information
Handling Committee
SUBJECT: Intelligence Community Requirements for Video
Disc Based Map Library
1. The Intelligence Information Handling Committee has coordinated the
requirements of the National Foreign Intelligence Community for video disc
based cartographic support. This was achieved through a working group formed
for that purpose by the Washington Area Operations Center Conference and was
done in coordination with the stated requirements for support to the White
House. We have also reviewed the potential utility of the proposed production
of video discs to support White House requirements, in light of their
usefulness to support existing or planned national and tactical intelligence
systems. Based upon this review, we request that the following intelligence
requirements be incorporated in your planning for the production of video,
discs.
a. We request that the additional areas be covered as set out in the
attached list.
b. We request that, in addition to including views of the maps, chosen to
be included on each disc and optimized to provide the largest field of
view which will provide complete resolution on standard display
equipment, at least one larger field of view (preferably covering four
times the optimized area) be included for maps of a scale of 1:250,000
and larger; also for city plans or graphics.
c. We request that readable legends, which correspond to each different
category and type of map appearing on a disc, be prepared and
included on the disc. (These could be indexed to each map image to
enable one keystroke retrieval of the legend and one keystroke return
to the previously viewed image.)
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2. Other considerations, which are not mandatory but which we feel would
increase the overall usefulness of video disc based mapping systems, include
the following:
a. Designating left-to-right and bottom-to-top as the general pattern
description of where map images are positioned on video discs.
b. Using latitude-longitude coordinates as the primary measurements for
map registration and locational data in the data base information.
c. Using the reference point for each map segment as the center of the
first frame imaged in the lower left corner of the map segment.
d. Including on the disc, a machine readable index to the images
contained therein, provided this does not unreasonably increase the
cost and production time.
e. Locating on the disc in close proximity to each other different map
images of the same general areas.
f. Having at least 25 percent overlap for adjacent map images.
g. Imaging maps with a field of view no smaller than 2.25 x 3.0 map
inches.
h. Prescribing production methods and organizing the maps on the discs in
such a fashion as to enable the data base information of map images to
be presented in the most basic terms thereby reducing the complexity
of the required software to a minimum (use KISS concept).
i. It is recommended that the following materials be imaged:
(1)
Cities/small areas of interest
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City/small area overview /orientation
- graphic or frame(s) from
large area map
(3)
Special interest area
- 1:50,000 if best scale
(4)
Area coverage working maps
- 1:250,000 JOG series
(5)
Area coverage working maps
- 1:500,000 TPC series
(6)
Overviews
- graphic which considers
color, line width,
character spacing, etc.
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(a) Briefing charts
(b) Content indexing
(c) General orientation.
3. I thank you for your patience and cooperation in soliciting Community
requirements for video disc mapping and offer our assistance to help you
complete this effort.
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MAP AREAS DESIRED IN
PRIORITY ORDER
GENERAL AREA COUNTRY
South America Peru
Argentina
(Guyana)
World
Africa
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Southwest Asia
Surinam
Jamaica
Syria
West Bank
The Yemens
Saudi Arabia
Turkey
Libya
(Pakistan/India)
United States
HIGH INTEREST SUBAREA
Ecuador Border
Chile (Bolivian Corridor
to Sea)
Beagle Channel Area
Border with Surinam and
Venezuela
Greater Damascus Area
Border Areas of Cease-
fire Line
Soviet Travel
Restriction Areas
New York
Washington, D.C.
San Francisco
OVERVIEW GRAPHICS AND ORIENTATION MAPS
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